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Documents 151–200 of 2634 matching.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0230.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv13p0i0206.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stele with an inscription recording a donation, after purchase, of a land for supplying ghee for maintaining perpetual lamps.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00144.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stele inscription recording a donation of gold (?) for maintaining perpetual lamps (?).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00181.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stele inscription recording a donation of land for maintaining a tank. Parameśurāmeśvara temple at Guḍimallam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00110.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Confirmation of the grant, with exemptions, of a garden in Cillarekakoḍuṁka to 24 Brahmins, and further grant of lands, seemingly in Āpiṭṭī.
Languages: Middle Indo-Aryan, Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00003.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of the village of Iḷaiyāṉ Puttūr as brahmadeya by Parāṅkucaṉ1 to the Brahmin Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭasomayājin of the Bhāradvajagotra.
Languages: English, Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya10001.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Commemoration of a tiruppaṇi ("glorious temple service") by the ascetic Guṇasāgara, disciple of the master Jinasena of the Sena congregation, in Tirumayilāpuri. It is not clear if the inscribed bronze is the tiruppaṇi itself (in which case the record is about the donation / installation of this bronze image) or if the tiruppaṇi was performed in respect of this preexisting bronze image. It is neither clear if Tirumayilāpuri is just the seat of the Sena congregation or also the place of installation of the bronze image.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00002.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Inscription recording the pious donation (dharma) of Buddhāditya. Engraved on the pedestal of a bronze Buddha statue kept in a private collection in Ireland.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00170.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lakṣmīnārāyaṇa temple, Javantināthapuram, Lālkuṭi taluk, Trichy district. On a stone (perhaps was it a doorjamb originally?), embedded in the right-side cement pillar of the gate. Regnal year 9 opposite to 4 of Māṟañcaṭaiyaṉ, aviṭṭa day, which falls on Monday in the month of dhanus.1 The last syllable of each line is not visible, even on the estampage published in 1940–1950 in EI 28, but can be easily guessed in most of the cases and thus restored in the text in square brackets with an asterisk. The inscription stops abruptly, the remaining part of it perhaps covered by cement.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00341.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00077.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the paiement of a tax on the income from a lake.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00127.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of paddy (nellu) for maintaining a tank (ēri).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00439.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0231.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Fragment. King’s name and year lost, if any. Time of Rājendra II Cōḻa according to Vijayavenugopal et al. 2026, since it is found near INSTamilNadu00803 of that king.
On the jagati of the south base of the mahāmaṇḍapa.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00804.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the base of east wall of the central shrine.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00806.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A carefully engraved wall inscription recording the donation after sale of a land in Kaṇṇamaṅkalam by eight Brahmins to the god Anantanārāyaṇa Paramasvāmi who graciously lies on the serpent bed (aṇai) at Tiruvekkā (Tiruveḵkā) in Kaccipēṭu (Kāñcipuram) for the sum of 367 kaḻañcus of gold.
North wall of the central shrine.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00801.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lacunose inscription in three fragments. Each line appears to be read in continuty with the corresponding line of the other fragments. Time of Rājendra II Cōḻa, whose meykkīrtti is found a the beginning of the first fragment.
On the jagati of the north base.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00803.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A carefully engraved wall inscription recording the donation after sale of one tūṇi of land by a group of Brahmins and merchants from the mānakaram of Kāñcipuram to the god Anantanārāyaṇa Paramasvāmi who graciously lies on the serpent bed (aṇai) at Tiruvekkā (Tiruveḵkā) for the sum of 127 kaḻañcus of gold.
South wall of the central shrine.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00802.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the western base of the mahāmaṇḍapa, to the right of the temple entrance.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00824.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00201.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Outermost prākāra, slab built in.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00358.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Fragment comprising a biruda (?).
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00314.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Ekāmbaranātha temple. Pillar inscription recording a list of birudas of Mahendravarman I Pallava.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Undetermined.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00021.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: The first half of a verse also found twice complete in Mahābalipuram in the inscriptions Pallava 0 and Pallava 0.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00387.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Two glorifying soubriquets (birudas), each one on a different pillar.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00392.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Fragment. 6 lines of an inscription, the beginning of which is lost.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00202.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0828.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0829.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Slab inscription recording the name of a temple: Mahendravarmeśvaragṛha.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00070.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Kailāsanātha, Mahendravameśvaragṛha, on southern string wall. Name of a temple.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00488.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Kailāsanātha, Mahendravameśvaragṛha, southern string wall. Name of a temple.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00489.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of a golden plate and of an image by the Pallava Abhimānasiddhi to the god of the Parameśvaraviṣṇugṛha.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00262.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of a golden plate by the Pallava king Dantivarman and of gold by Avanicandra to the god ( bhaṭār) of the Parameśvaraviṣṇugṛha.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00107.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Mukteśvara. Donation by Dharmamahādevi.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00080.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Kāmākṣi temple. Slab inscription.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00315.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Granting of trade permission.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00135.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0133.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0134.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land (after sale) and of gold.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00171.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya01001.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00517.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00518.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of goats for upkeeping a perpetual lamp and of land for a flower garden.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00022.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lamp donation.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00021.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lamp donation.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00020.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lamp donation. ARIE 1938–39 (p. 35): “Registers a gift of land for a lamp in the temple of Śrīkāmai-Nakkar by the Aiyāraṉ alias Nūṟṟeṇmak-Kavaraceṭṭi, son of Māyilaṭṭi, a merchant of Periya-aṅkāṭi at Tañcāvūr.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00024.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Land donation by the assembly of Kāmappullūr to a Brahmin.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00340.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01006.
Nicolas Cane, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Sur la face sud d’un rocher près du temple de Tirumaṭapaṟai dans le fort. Parāntaka Cōḻa I, 947-48 CE.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Cempiyaṉ Mahādevī (tfa-cempiyan-mahadevi-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSCempiyanMahadevi00002.