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Documents 2751–2800 of 3149 matching.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv08p0i0432.
Dorotea Operato.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv08p0i0004.
Dorotea Operato.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv08p0i0005.
Dorotea Operato.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv08p0i0006.
Dorotea Operato.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv08p0i0007.
Dorotea Operato.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv08p0i0008.
Dorotea Operato.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv08p0i0009.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Source Language (other), Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01011.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Details not available.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00342.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: List of provisions for worshipping an image of the deity, including the recitation of the Śrīpurāṇam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv24p0i0182.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Reciters of Tiruvāymoḻi
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0508.
Dorotea Operato, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Grant of tax exemptions for certain lands after the temple they belonged to failed to protect its treasure during a conflict between Right-hand and Left-hand castes/classes
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv24p0i0053.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Inscription damaged and incomplete. Endowment of money (kācu) for the worship of the three nāyaṉmar (emperumakkaḷ) and supposedly for Māṇikkavācakar (tiruttoṇṭar cīr uraittār).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00062.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: See ARIE 1939-43 (p. 47): “In characters of about the 9th century A.D. States that Kaṭṭāyakaṉ, son of Ottūraṉ, the headman of Kommai, constructed the temple and that he presented lands for its upkeep.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00352.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: See IAR 1970-71 (p. 54): “This inscription in Tamil language and script on the kumuda of the north wall of the Jalanātheśvara temple is dated in the sixth year in the reign of Aparājita and seems to refer to a gift of land to the temple.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00345.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: An inscription related to a tank.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00148.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Agreement concerning a donation of gold.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00128.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A Tamil verse recording the foundation of the cave-temple named Catturumalleśvarālaiyam (Sanskrit Śatrumalleśvarālaya) by Narēntirappōttaraiyaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00020.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Continuation of previous inscription (SII No. 4). Revenue in paddy and gold that several villages were obliged to pay to the temple. The territories that were bound to pay taxes are described in minute detail. The revenue was measured by the marakkāl Āṭavallāṉ.
Languages: Sanskrit, Source Language (other), Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv02p0i0005.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Revenue in paddy and gold that several villages were obliged to pay to the temple. The territories that were bound to pay taxes are described in minute detail. The revenue was measured by the marakkāl Āṭavallāṉ.
Languages: Sanskrit, Source Language (other), Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv02p0i0004.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Donation of paddy (nellu) by Rājarāja I Cōḻa, made up to the 29th year of his reign, to 48 reciters of the glorious hymns (tiruppatiyam) in the temple of Rājarājeśvara and to 2 drummers.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv02p0i0065.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This is the programmatic inscription of the Rājarājeśvara temple founded by Rājarāja I Cōḻa. It contains in its first part the royal order of the 20th day of his 26th regnal year, reported in the first person plural, enjoining that the donations by the king Rājarāja, his elder sister, his wives and other donors to Rājarājeśvara be engraved on the temple (vimāna). Then is a list of various items donated by Rājarāja, from the 312th day of his 25th regnal year up to the 319th day of his 26th regnal year. The second part provides a further list of items donated by Rājarāja between his 23rd and 29th regnal years. The donated items are mostly gold utensils and ornaments. Besides such items, noteworthy are the donation of golden images of Koḷkaideva (Hultzsch’s §3) and Kṣetrapāladeva (Hultzsch’s §33; the attributes of the deity are mentioned), the gilding of the temple pinnacle with copper and gold (Hultzsch’s §18). The inscription explicitly states that the stone-temple (tirukkaṟṟaḷi) of Rājarājeśvara (rājarājīśvaram uṭaiyār, literally the lord of [the liṅga/temple named] Rājarājeśvara [“the lord of Rājarāja”]” was founded by Rājarāja (line 1.6=6) and that the first part of the inscription is engraved on the jagatippaṭai of the temple (Hultzsch’s §51).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv02p0i0001.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the donations of Kuntavaiyār, the elder sister of Rājarāja I Cōḻa. It contains a list of donations made on the 310th day of his 25th regnal year followed by a list of donations made between his 25th and his 29th regnal years. The donated items are gold utensils and ornaments, offered to the Goddess.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv02p0i0002.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Construction of a sluice.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00261.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00089.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stone-inscription (pedestal of statue). Eleventh-century CE trophy inscription in Tamil on the statue of a door-guardian seized by the Cōḻa king Vijayarājendra (Rājādhirāja Cōḻa) after the conquest of the capital of the rival dynasty of the Cāḷukyas.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00601.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Labels engraved in three to four lines above panels representing important figures and spiritual masters.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00618.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Labels engraved and/or painted above panels of the Nāyaṉmārs’ frieze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00616.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Name of the maṇḍapa inscribed eight times on eight different pillars in the maṇḍapa.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00604.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On a stone lying in the courtyard.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00619.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On a stone lying in the courtyard. Fragment. Starts with the meykkīrtti of Kulottuṅga I Cōḻa (1170-1120 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00602.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On a stone lying in the courtyard. Fragment. Starts with the meykkīrtti of Kulottuṅga I Cōḻa (1170-1120 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00603.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00611.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00610.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Southern façade, base. Fragment. Seems to record the donation of a perpetual lamp. In characters of the 12th-13th centuries according to Srinivasan 1987.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00634.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of banner-post and pavement in the temple of Mācilāmaṇiyīcuvaracuvāmi, that is, the shore temple in Tranquebar, by a Ceṭṭiyār. “On a stone built on the floor” (ARIE 1890-91) of the Mācilāmaṇīṣvara temple, kept (2025) in the Danish Fort at Tranquebar.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0400.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift to the Murugan temple in Tirucchendur.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00008.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Kāḷamaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00202.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Construction of a sluice (kumiḻi).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00204.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation / installation of a bronze image of the Lord by Karuppuḻāṉ Tēvar Vallavaṉ Nēminātaṉ of Arumoḻitēvapuram.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00003.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya01005.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Gopinatha Rao [1908] 1988: “The subjoined verse is engraved on the north wall of the ruined gopura in front of the Viśvanāthasvāmin temple at Teṉkāci. It records that the king Aḻakaṉ Perumāl Kulaśekhara, who calls Arikesari Parākrama Pāṇḍya his brother (or cousin, aṇṇāḻvi) seeing that the work undertaken by the latter remained incomplete, caused the superstructure of the gopura to be finished with brick. This prince Kulaśekhara has been taken as brother or cousin, of Arikesari, in the General Introduction.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya01008.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya01006.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya01010.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Gopinatha Rao [1908] 1988: “This single verse is also engraved on the door-post on the south side of the gopura, and records the date of the coronation of Aḻakaṉ Civala-vēḷ. It took place on Monday, the 20th of Cittirai of the year Raktākṣi, Śaka 1486. This day corresponded with the 6th tithi of the bright half of that month, the nakṣatra being Punarvasu. The king is the well known Ativīrarāma Pāṇḍya of literary fame.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya01011.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya01007.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: It appears to record certain rules framed by the merchant guild of Ayyapoḻil concerning the Right-Hand and Left-Hand castes.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00251.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Dedication of a sculpture of Aiyaṉār.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00428.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00122.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift by merchants of red and white cloth.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00006.