Texts

Texts database last updated 2025-07-27 14:59.

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.

Per default, all metadata fields are searched (except "lang", see below). Metadata fields are (for now): "title", "editor", "editor_id", "author", "summary", "lang", "repo", "ident". You can restrict search to a specific field by using a field prefix, as in editor:manu or title:"critical edition". Several clauses can be added successively, separated with whitespace. In this case, for a document to be considered a match, all query clauses must match. Try for instance editor:manu title:stone.

Note the use of quotation marks: the query editor:"emmanuel francis" matches all documents edited by Emmanuel Francis, but the query editor:emmanuel francis matches all documents edited by someone called Emmanuel and that also include the name Francis in any metadata field.

The "lang" field is special. If you look for a string that contains two or three letters only, as in lang:en or lang:san, it is assumed to refer to an ISO 639 language code, and an exact comparison is performed. If you look for a string longer than that, it is assumed to refer to a language name and the above-mentioned substring matching technique will be used instead. You can consult a table of languages here.

Documents 301–350 of 1000000000000000002263 matching.

Kīḻūr, Vīraṭṭānēśvara, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 4

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Rock inscription recording a donation (16 kaḻañcus of gold) for maintaining a perpetual lamp in honour of the Mahādeva of the Tiruviraṭṭānam at Tirukkōvalūr.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00118.

Kīḻ Vīti, sluice

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Construction of a sluice at the order of the purohita Vēṭpai Cōmāciyār.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00493.

Kīraicāttu, time of Nandīśvaravarman, year 37

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Vakkaṭi.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00426.

Kīrappākkam, time of Kampa, year 17

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: See ARIE 1934-1935 (p. 10): “Damaged. Seems to register a gift of 20 kuḻis of land for maintaining the tank at Kīraippāttūr by […]ti Caṅkaṉ.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00336.

Kīrappākkam, time of Kampa, year 17

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: See ARIE 1934-1935 (p. 10): “Damaged. The writing belongs to the 10th century A.D. Registers the construction of the Deśavallabha-Jinālaya to the north of Kīraipākkam by Amaramutalguru, a disciple of Malāvīraguru of the Yāpanīya-saṅgha and the Kumiḻi-gaṇa, who also made provision for feeding the members of the saṅgha.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00366.

Koḷappākkam, time of the mahārāja, year (8)

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of land for mid-day food offerings (amutu) in a god’s temple.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00480.

Kōlār, Kōlārammā, no king, no year

Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita Trento, S.A.S. Sarma, Vigneshwaran Muralidaran.

Summary: ...

Language: Tamil.