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Documents 251–300 of 3529 matching.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stone inscription recording the donation of the pillar on which it is inscribed. No regnal year.
On a pillar of the circumambulatory hall round the vimāna, on the south side.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00811.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the floor of the mahāmaṇḍapa.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00826.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Fragment. Dated to the year 40 something of a Cōḻa king whose name is lost. This is Kulottuṅga I Cōḻa (r. 1070-1120) according to Vijayavenugopal et al. 2026, who, indeed, is the only Cōḻa king to have reigned for more than 40 years.
On a block in the north wall of the mahāmaṇḍapa.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00807.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ARIE 1920–21 (ARIE/1920-1921/C/1921/27): “Vijayanagara. Kampaṇa-Uḍaiyār, son of Vīra Bokkaṇa Uḍaiyār. Śaka 128[9*], Pḷavaṅga, Mēsha, śu., ēkādaśi, Monday, Uttiram. On the south wall of the second prākāra of the same temple. States that the king while seated in the Jānakī-maṇḍapa granted to Śrī Parakāla-Nambi the name of Karuṇākara-dāśaṉ with certain honours, privileges and a dwelling house.”
Inscription not found in 2024 in the temple.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00812.
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: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero in a fight.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00287.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: See ARIE 1949–50 (p. 35): “Beginning lost. Seems to register an endowment of gold entrusted with the sabhā of the village by a private individual Cevviḷai Nāyakaṉ for burning a lamp in a temple (name lost) at Kaṉṟikai […] in Puḻaṟkōṭṭam.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00354.
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: Fragment. ARIE 1938–39: “Continuation of lines lost. Seems to register a gift of land by the assembly of Kāmappullūr to a certain Naraciṅkattiruvēti of Uṟuppuṭṭūr.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00322.
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.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription (?) commemorating the death of Āykaivāpāṭi Valiyār.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00491.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00278.
Dorotea Operato, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the grant of certain privileges to temple servants.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0025.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0026.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0024.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0022.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0023.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0021.