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Documents 351–400 of 3910 matching.
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.
Languages: English, Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00250.
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 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.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv01p0i0040.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv01p0i0041.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv01p0i0042.
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: 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: 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: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0137.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00036.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Construction of a tank sluice.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00266.
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.
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.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00003.
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.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: The record is preserved in discontinuous textual segments. The first two of the four sections record a deed of land sale (nila-vilai-piramāṇa-icaivu-tīṭṭu) to Karaiyēṟaviṭṭāḷ, a tēvaraṭiyār of the temple who installed an image of Tiruvātavūr-nāyaṉār (Māṇikkavācakar). The endowment includes food offerings for Brahmins (viprarici) and for the sandhi. The other two sections contain further details on the endowment but several portions are missing, making it highly unintelligible.
On the base of the north wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Śiva temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00068.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Construction of a weir and renovation of a sluice.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00157.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stone-slab inscription. Mentions the Miṉṉāmaḻai-Īśvara at Koṭumpāḷūr (possibly one of the three vimānas of the present-day Mūvarkōyil) and the temple (kōyil) of Vīra Murukki Nāṅkai (probably Durgā/Koṟṟavai), both apparently objects of an installation by Acīti Paṇṭitar. Mentions a kapālam in connexion with Aciti Paṇṭitar, thus possibly a skull-bearer ascetic. Records the donation of a pillar (tirunilai) of the maṇḍapa built by another Paṇṭitar.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Koṭumpāḷūr (tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00053.
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.
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.
Languages: English, 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.