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Texts database last updated 2025-10-30 04:07.

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 2608 matching.

Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Rājakesarin, year 12

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.

Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Rājakesarin, year 12 opposite to one (year 13)

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.

Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Rājakesarin, year 6

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.

Mēlappaḻuvūr, Kīḻaiyūr, Ireṭṭaikkōyil, Agastyeśvara, time of Rājendracōḻa I, year 15

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.

Mēlpaṭṭi, time of Kampavikramavarman, year 10

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Perunakar koṇṭa Kāviti.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00209.

Miḻalaikkūṟṟam Piḷḷaimār grant, Śaka year 1677

Margherita Trento.

Summary: This plate records a gift to the Avudaiyarkoyil temple.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00007.

Miḻalai Nāṭu’s Kāṭaṅkuṭi grant, Śaka year 1659

Margherita Trento.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00034.

Muttu Cilāpam grant, Śaka year 1461

Margherita Trento.

Summary: This plate records the donation of part of the income of the pearl fisheries at Maṉṉār and Tūttukkuṭi to the temple in Āvuṭaiyārkōyil. The donor is allegedly Tirumalai Nāyakkar (r. 1623-1659), but the date on the plate (śaka 1461, A.D. 1539) does not correspond to the period of his reign.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00004.

Mutūr, time of […][vi]kramavarman, year [figure lost]

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: See ARIE 1910-11 (p. 33): “Seems to record a gift of land which the donees were required not to mortgage.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00355.