Texts

Texts database last updated 2026-01-25 11:36.

This interface allows you to look for texts in the DHARMA collection. The search form below can be used for filtering results. Matching is case-insensitive, does not take diacritics into account, and looks for substrings instead of terms. For instance, the query edit matches "edition" or "meditation". To look for a phrase, surround it with double quotes, as in "old javanese". Searching for strings that contain less than three characters is not possible.

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Documents 2351–2400 of 7342 total.

Mota Machiala plates of Dharasena II, [Valabhī] year 252, Vaiśākha ba. 15

Annette Schmiedchen.

Summary: Grant of land (300 pādāvarta and one more field as well as two cisterns surrounded by altogether 52 pādāvarta) in favour of a Yajurvedin.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSMaitraka00035.

Mota Machiala plates of Dhruvasena I, [Valabhī] year 206, Āśvayuja śu. 5

Annette Schmiedchen.

Summary: Grant of land (100 pādāvarta) in favour of three Yajurvedins from Kāśahrada.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSMaitraka00005.

Mōttakal, time of Mahendravarman, year 32

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00280.

Mōttakal, time of Mahendravarman, year 32

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero in a fight with a tiger.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00281.

Mount Man Lăng stele (C. 56), 1358 Śaka

Arlo Griffiths.

Language: Old Cham.

Repository: Campa (tfc-campa-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSCIC00056.

Mpu Mano

Arlo Griffiths.

Languages: Old Javanese, Sanskrit.

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSIDENKMpuMano.

Mūḍigere Grant of Siṁhavarman, Year 5

Csaba Kiss, Dániel Balogh.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Siddham (siddham).

DHARMA_INSSiddham01037.

Mūḍigere Grant of Viṣṇuvarman, Year 9

Csaba Kiss, Dániel Balogh.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Siddham (siddham).

DHARMA_INSSiddham01043.

Mūkkanahaḷḷi, time of Mahendravarman, year 4

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero whose name is lost.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00410.

Mula-Malurung

Arlo Griffiths.

Languages: Old Javanese, Sanskrit.

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSIDENKMula-Malurung.

Muñcūrpaṭṭu, Jovian cycle year Saumya

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Fragment.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0025.

Munduan

Eko Bastiawan, Arlo Griffiths, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan.

Language: Old Javanese.

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSIDENKMunduan.

Munggut charter (944 Śaka)

Eko Bastiawan, Arlo Griffiths.

Language: Old Javanese.

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSIDENKMunggut.

Muniyur, Agastyeśvara temple, time of Rājarāja I, year 27

Renato Dávalos.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0205.

Musinikuṇḍa grant of Viṣṇuvardhana III

Dániel Balogh.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Eastern Cālukya (tfb-vengicalukya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSVengiCalukya00080.

Mutgi Inscription of Kannara [Kr̥ṣṇa III], Śaka 886

Samana Gururaja, Sharma, M.J..

Summary: This inscription is engraved on three sides of a four-sided stone block, broken off from a pillar. A portion of the stone is chipped off resulting in the gaps in faces A and B. The inscripton identifies Tailapa II as the subordinate of Kannara/Kr̥ṣṇa III, who granted him Tardavāḍi 1000. Rācaṇayya, an administrator under Tailapa had certain lands released from Tailapa and in turn, released them to a deity whose name is lost.

Language: Kannada.

Repository: Kalyāṇa Cālukya (tfb-kalyanacalukya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSKalyanaCalukya00018.

Muttu Cilāpam grant, Śaka year 1461

Margherita Trento.

Summary: This plate records the donation of part of the income of the pearl fisheries at Maṉṉār and Tūttukkuṭi to the temple in Āvuṭaiyārkōyil. The donor is allegedly Tirumalai Nāyakkar (r. 1623-1659), but the date on the plate (śaka 1461, A.D. 1539) does not correspond to the period of his reign.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00004.

Mutūr, time of […][vi]kramavarman, year [figure lost]

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: See ARIE 1910-11 (p. 33): “Seems to record a gift of land which the donees were required not to mortgage.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00355.

Mỹ Sơn stela (C. 89)

Salomé Pichon, Arlo Griffiths.

Language: Old Cham.