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Documents 351–400 of 2392 matching.
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.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00106.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Assignment of people to supply oil for a lamp.
Languages: Sanskrit, 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 1939-1943 (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 1939-1943 (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.
Languages: Sanskrit, 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.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00075.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of goats for the upkeep of permanent lamps.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0138.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of goats for the upkeep of permanent lamps.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0137.
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 1937-1938 (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 1937-1938 (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 1937-1938 (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.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00266.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.
Languages: Sanskrit, 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.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00235.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Agreement on the management of a donation.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00131.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records a donation by Vicaiya Rekuṉāta Cētupati Kātta Tēvar to the goddess in Tirupperuntuṟai aka Avudaiyarkoil. The donation consists in a share of the revenue of the pearl fisheries of Maṉṉār.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-TN-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00003.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00484.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Construction of a weir and renovation of a sluice.
Languages: Sanskrit, 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: See ARIE 1943–1945 (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.
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.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; b) on the westernmost wall section of the southern façade of the ardha-maṇḍapa, lowest inscription; lost regnal year of [Mati]rai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I; the western half of the inscription is built in the wall of the mukha-maṇḍapa. Below ARIE/1923-1924/C/1924/355.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00018.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; lowest inscription on the central wall section of the ardha-maṇḍapa of the northern façade; 36th regnal year of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I (circa 943 A.D.).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00001.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, Ardhamaṇḍapa, northern face, western section of the wall.AIM, southern shrine; lowest inscription on the westernmost wall section of the ardha-maṇḍapa of the northern façade (below #3); 38th (?) regnal year of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I (circa 945 A.D.); the end of the inscription is built over by a wall and the record is unfinished.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00004.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, Ardhamaṇḍapa, northern face, time of Rājakesarin (Sundaracōḻa?), year 11. AIM, southern shrine; middle inscription on the easternmost wall section of the ardha-maṇḍapa of the northern façade; 11th regnal year of Kōrājakesarivarman = probably Sundaracōḻa (circa 968 A.D.); this inscription may have been engraved after the one below (INSMelKil00002): the line 7 is tightly engraved and lines 8 to 11 continue on the pilaster, probably because there was not enough space below; this inscription is also connected to INSMelKil00024, which is damaged but has a similar structure and the same vēḷaṉ is mentioned.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00006.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the central wall section of the southern façade of the ardha-maṇḍapa; 12th regnal year of Kōvirājakesarivarman = probably Āditya I (circa 883 A.D.).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00013.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; engraved across the two wall sections on the northern side of the niche of Skanda on the eastern façade of the sanctuary; 15th regnal year of Kōvirājarājakēsarivarman = Rājarāja I Cōḻa (circa 1000 A.D.); meykkīrtti of Rājarāja I Cōḻa from lines 1 to 5.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00012.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the easternmost wall section of the southern façade of the ardha-maṇḍapa, upper inscription; 22nd regnal year of Kōvirājakesarivarman = probably Āditya I (circa 893 A.D.); SII identifies the king with Rājarāja I; h) 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.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00014.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the wall section to the west of the central niche of the southern façade of the sanctuary; lost regnal year of Kōrājake[sarivarman]; unidentified king; this is just the beginning of an unfinished inscription.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00020.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, on the westernmost wall section of the northern façade of the sanctuary. AIM, southern shrine; on the westernmost wall section of the northern façade of the sanctuary; 16th regnal year of Kōpparakesarivarman = perhaps Uttamacōḻa (circa 987 A.D.).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00009.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the two wall sections on the eastern side of the niche of Śiva on the southern façade of the sanctuary and on the southernmost wall section of the eastern façade of the sanctuary; c) personally located and read in situ; SII 19, no. 378 [lines 1 to 37]; SII 32, part 2, no. 166 [lines 1 to 37]; Āvaṇam 3.2 [complete inscription]; 15th regnal year of Kōpparakesarivarman = probably Uttamacōḻa (circa 986 A.D.); the inscription is not engraved continuously: I have given the details in the edition itself. Lines 38–96 record a list of signatures which may have been added later, because the script is slightly different from the first part (lines 1–37).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00019.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; lowest inscription on the easternmost wall section of the ardha-maṇḍapa of the northern façade; ARE 1924, no. 369; 36th regnal year of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I (circa 943 A.D.).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00002.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, Ardhamaṇḍapa, northern face, western section of the wall. AIM, southern shrine; on the westernmost wall section of the ardha-maṇḍapa of the northern façade (above INSMelKil00013); lost regnal year of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I; the end of the inscription is built over by a wall, rendering impossible a full translation.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00003.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, Ardhamaṇḍapa, northern face. AIM, southern shrine; middle inscription on the central wall section of the ardha-maṇḍapa of the northern façade; 10th regnal year of Kōrājakesarivarman = probably Sundaracōḻa (circa 967 A.D.).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00005.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; on the wall section immediately to the west of the niche of Brahmā, northern façade of the sanctuary; 12th regnal year of Kōrājakesarivarman = Cōḻa king unidentified.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00007.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: AIM, southern shrine; upper inscription, on the eastern and middle wall sections of the northern façade of the ardha-maṇḍapa, engraved over the two consecutive wall sections; 12th regnal year opposite to one of Kōrājakesarivarman = probably Sundaracōḻa (circa 969 A.D.).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00008.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, on the northern façade of the sanctuary, on the two consecutive wall sections on the eastern side of the niche of Brahmā AIM, southern shrine; on the northern façade of the sanctuary, on the two consecutive wall sections on the eastern side of the niche of Brahmā; 6th regnal year of Kōvirājakesarivarman = king difficult to identify; identified with Gaṇḍarāditya by Balasubrahmanyam (1963: 62–63) and Balambal (1978: 183); identified with Rājarāja I in SII; inscription similar to #34.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00010.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, on the northern façade of the sanctuary and on the ardha-maṇḍapa; four lines are engraved on the round part of the base (kumuda), and six lines on the flat lower part of the base (jagati). AIM, southern shrine; on the base of the northern façade of the sanctuary and the ardha-maṇḍapa, begins below the niche of Brahmā; four lines are engraved on the round part of the base (kumuda), and six lines on the flat lower part of the base (jagati); 15th regnal year of Kōpparakesarivarman Uṭaiyar Śrī Rājendracōḻadeva = Rājendracōḻa I (circa 1027 A.D.); meykkīrtti of Rājendracōḻa, lines 1 to 6; because the inscription is built over at the end, I cannot give a continuous translation.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00011.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00298.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0018.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0015.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0016.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0017.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0019.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Perunakar koṇṭa Kāviti.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00209.