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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 351–400 of 2289 matching.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for annual festival food-offering.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00149.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01008.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A Sanskrit verse cursing those who do not worship Śiva.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00051.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A slab inscription recording the land-sale of pasture-land for calves.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00092.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Personal name: a biruda (glorifying sobriquet).
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00478.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Isolated name found on a cistern excavated in a rock in front of the Trimūrti cave. This cistern is nowadays called the Gopi’s Churn in reference to Kṛṣṇa narratives. The inscription itself consist in four syllables in Grantha script. It appears to be a name, either a graffiti or a signature. It is not clear if it has a closer connexion with the cistern on which it is engraved.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00363.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A biruda.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00061.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A verse list of the ten avatāras, which interestingly includes Buddha, but not Kṛṣṇa.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00250.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: See ARIE 1995-96 (p. 37): “Contains two lines mentioning the dancing girls (kūttikaḷ) of the temple. In characters of about the 8th century A.D.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00479.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: An isolated Sanskrit word in Grantha. This inscription is found near inscription Pallava 362. It consists in two syllables in Grantha.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00361.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: An isolated Sanskrit word in Grantha. Found near Pallava 361.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00362.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Isolated name.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00511.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Isolated word.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00512.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: An isolated biruda.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00316.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Isolated birudas.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00318.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A list of 4 birudas on a capital stone found lying around the Shore temple.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00382.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Illegible short lines on the frame separating two royal narrative panels.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00477.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A temple name.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00319.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A series of birudas inscribed on the pedestal of a sculpture of Varāha.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00381.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A verse, also attested in the inscription Pallava 68 (verse 1).
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00380.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A Sanskrit verse recording the foundation of the cave-temple named Mahendraviṣṇugṛha by the Guṇabhara (Mahendravarman I Pallava) around 600/625 CE.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00024.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00494.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription recording the foundation of a temple (taḷi) and installation of the deity ( bhaṭārar) by Kuvāvaṉ Cāttaṉ alias Viṭēlviṭuku Muttaraiyaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00106.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Assignment of people to supply oil for a lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00526.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00025.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero. See ARIE 1939-43 (p. 88): “In characters of about the 9th century A.D. This is also1 engraved above the figure of a warrior holding a sword by his right hand and bow by his left. Refers to a cattle-raid in which a certain Nantikuṭṭi seems to have lost his life.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00367.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero. See ARIE 1939-43 (p. 88): “In similar characters.1 Fragment. Mentions a certain Nantikuṭṭi, son of Mīnakarkāḷi, and Malaiyaṉūr in Mīkoṉṟai-nāṭu, which he was probably administering.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00368.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land in honour of a man who performed ritual suicide in honour of the Goddess.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00226.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land for a lamp (and offerings?) for the Subrahmaṇya at Tiruvāṉpūr in the Peyiyūriḷaṅkōṭṭam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00075.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lacunose cave-temple wall inscription recording a eulogy of Śatrumalla, Nityavinīta, Sātyasandha, that is, Mahendravarman I Pallava, and probably his foundation of the cave-temple.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00026.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Fragment kept in the Chennai Government Museum, containing only the regnal year of the Pallava king Nandivikramavarman.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00481.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: See ARIE 1937-38 (p. 53): “Fragment. Registers gift of gold by Tēva-māṟaṉ, a member of the gaṇa of the village, for a lamp in the temple of Tiru-Uḻuṭīśvarattu Mahādeva.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00328.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: See ARIE 1937-38 (p. 53): “Fragment. Registers gift of a village for offerings and lamp, by Mahādēvaṭikaḷ, the daughter of Vāṇakōvaraiyar Siddhavaṭavaṉār (with the permission of her elder brother) . . . . . . yar Vayirimēkaṉār. Another fragment in the same place dated in the 7th year, probably of the same king, registers gift of gold for offerings to the god by Pullāli Cāttaṉ.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00325.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: See ARIE 1937-38 (p. 53): “In characters of the 9th century A.D. Registers gift of gold by Cāttaṉ . . . . of Pāṇṭi-nāṭu for a lamp in the temple.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00327.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Construction of a tank sluice.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00266.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00014.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00305.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for a perpetual lamp and food offering to a temple god.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00235.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Agreement on the management of a donation.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00131.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A Sanskrit verse recording the foundation of a cave-temple by Vicitracitta (Mahendravarman I Pallava) around 600/625 CE.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00027.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00484.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Construction of a weir and renovation of a sluice.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00157.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Recording a donation of land after purchase, for maintaining a village tank.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00232.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00549.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: See ARIE 1943–45 (p. 23): “Engraved above and by the side of a panel of sculptures depicting heroes. Gives the names of four persons who fell while rescuing the cattle at Āḻakam.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00335.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Grant (brahmadeya), with all exemptions, of the village of Viriparam to two Brahmins.
Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00002.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation of the Śrī-Śikhari-Pallaveśvara, at Siṅhapura, by Candrāditya.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00249.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the westernmost wall section of the southern façade of the ardha-maṇḍapa, upper inscription; 22nd regnal year of […][…] rivarman = probably Āditya I (circa 893 A.D.); the puḷḷis (the dots added above the letter to signify that the vowel is dropped) are marked, which would confirm a date in the 9th century; the western part of the inscription is built over by the wall of the mukha-maṇḍapa, but we can restore some words because the inscription is similar to INSMelKil00013 and INSMelKil00014.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00015.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the easternmost wall section of the southern façade of the ardha-maṇḍapa, lower inscription (the last line is engraved on the ledge); 20th (?) regnal year of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I (circa 927 A.D.).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00016.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the westernmost wall section of the southern façade of the sanctuary (8th line continues on the pilaster and the 9th line goes through the pilaster and on the next wall section); 25th regnal year of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I (circa 932 A.D.).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00017.