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Documents 401–450 of 3910 matching.
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.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: Mēlappaḻuvūr & Kīḻappaḻuvūr (tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMelKil00011.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00298.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0018.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0015.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0016.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0017.
Emmanuel Francis, Eugen Hultzsch.
Summary: ...
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0019.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift to the Avudaiyarkoyil temple.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00007.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00034.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Fragment.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0025.
Renato Dávalos.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0205.
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.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00344.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold by an officer (kaṉmi) of the king of Śrīvijaya (Śrīvijaiyam) to offer jewels―rubies (māṇikkam) and emeralds (marakatam)―for a silver statue (veḷḷittirumēṉi) of Nākaiyaḻakaṉ in the Tirukkārōṇam temple in Nākapaṭṭiṉam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00166.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold, including Chinese gold (cinakkanakam) by an officer (kaṉmi) of the king of Kiṭāram, named Agralēkai alias Kuruttaṉ Kēcuvaṉ, for offering rituals (avipali arccaṉai) to the Ardhanāri that he had installed in the Tirukkārōṇam temple in Nākapaṭṭiṉam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00167.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation of a gateway (vācal) in the compound wall of the the Tirukkārōṇam temple in Nākapaṭṭiṉam by an officer (kaṉmi) of the king of Śrīvijaya (Śrīviṣaiyam), named Śrīmūlaṉ Akattīśvaraṉ, and donation of vessels and lamps probably by the same individual.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00165.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Ends of lines built in. Seems to state that the gateway of the sabhā was the gift of Āḷappiṟantāṉ Kōppe[ruñjiṅga].
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00051.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records a similar appointment by the tānattār of the temple, of Āḻvi Vaḷaiyamaḷakiyāḷ Patineṇpūmi-Naṅkai, a dēvaraḍiyāḷ, to sing the Tiruvempāvai (iraṇṭām-tiruppāṭṭu) and to dance before the deity on specified occasions, for three kaḻañju of gold received by them.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00047.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita Trento.
Summary: Possibly one of the foundation inscriptions of the temple. Installation of the image of Turkkai (Sanskrit Durgā) by Vaikāvuṭaiyāṉ Ceṉṉi Nalla Nākavēḷāṉ, probably corresponding to the adjacent niche.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00028.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Installation of the image of Dakṣiṇā (dakṣiṇamūrtti) and endowment of wet lands both made by Maṇṭai Poṉṉaṉ, alias Muṭi[…]cōḻa Malaiyamāṉ from Cāttiyakkam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00034.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the grant of Tiruppēru, a hamlet of Tōḻiyūr on the north bank (of the river), with all its taxes, as sarvamānya for the expenses of special worship and offerings on the days of Makhā in the temple of Nalla-Nāyaṉār, for the welfare of Rājā Kōnēridēva-Mahārāja who is given the birudas, Paṭṭu-kaṭṭārirāyaṉ, Vasavaśaṅkaraṉ, Madiyādamannar-maṇa-vāḷaṉ and Kānchīpuravarādhīśvaraṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00044.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stone inscription (wall) recording the construction of a maṇḍapa1 named after Poṉparappināṉ alias Rājarāja and constructed by Cunta⟨ra⟩-paṭṭaṉ alias Tillai Nāyaka Vēḷāṉ, lord of Āṟṟūr.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00045.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records an endowment of land at […] Vindalūr, a suburb of Pāṇṭapuram in Ālāṟṟūr-kūṟṟam, a subdivision of Malāṭu, alias Jananātha-[vaḷanāṭu], for a perpetual lamp in the temple at Na[llūr] which is stated to be in the same kūṟṟam, by Māṇikkanāyaṉ Gangayarāyaṉ, son of Cempōti Villa-vataraiyar of Paḻampaṭṭiṉam in Paṭṭiṉa-nāṭu, a subdivision of Śembūr-kōṭṭam
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00049.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription registering the construction (ceyvittāṉ) of a dancing hall nitta-maṇḍapa1 by Cuntaṉ Paṭṭaṉ alias Tillai Nāyaka Vēḷāṉ, lord of Āṟṟūr.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00052.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stone inscription (base of wall) providing the length of a measurement rod. Middle tier of northern base of the mukhamaṇḍapa.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00053.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Seems to be the continuation of INSTamilNadu00031 and INSTamilNadu00032. The donor’s name, Dharmaputtiraṉ, may be another alias for Kāṭavarāyaṉ. This record would therefore summarise the other two endowments, which was originally intended for sacred services and food offerings, to include the expenses of temple worship (arccana-bhoga).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00033.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ARIE: “Records a similar royal order issued to the tānattār of the temple making a tax-free gift of the village Vaṇṇāttūr in the proportion of three shares to one for the expenses of a festival called after prince Sundara-Pāṇḍya and of a service in the name of the king and for the worship of the images of Vīra-pāṇḍīśvaram-uṭaiya-Nāyaṉār and Dēśamikka-Perumāṇāc-ciyār consecrated by the same prince in the temple Sundara-Pāṇḍya is called in the inscriptions Ubhaiyadaḷa-kumāraśārdūla.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00042.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ARIE (standardised): “Begins with the historical introduction samastajagadādhāra, etc. Records a royal order making a tax-free dēvadāna endowment of the village Nallūr to the temple of Nalla-Nāyaṉār for the maintenance of a service in the name of the king and for the (expenses of the) festival in the month of Tai.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00041.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita Trento.
Summary: Sale of rights to a tēvaraṭiyār called Mātumai, alias Kōvaṇavarkulā, to sing the first song (mutal pāṭṭu) of the Tiruvempāvai, carry out the hunting festival (tiruveṭṭai) and climbing up the processional car (tiruttēr).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00030.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Damaged. Records an endowment of 7 mā of land after purchasing it from the temple itself by Tappili Tāḻviyāḻvi alias Tirukkaḷiṟṟuppaṭi-Naṅkai, a dēvaraḍiyāḷ of the temple for special worship on festival days..
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00040.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Gift of millet received in specified quantity on each vēli of land in the tēvatāṉam village from the tenants as the pāṭikāval fee by Rājarājadēvaṉ Poṉparappiṉān Vāṇakōvaraiyaṉ for offerings to god Poṉ-parappīśvaraṃ-uṭaiya-Nāyaṉār set up as a shelter for the liṅga (āśrayaliṅga) in the temple by Tillai-nāyaka-vēḷāṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00038.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Registers the sale of the right of singing the Tiruvembā[vai] kaṭai-k-kāppu in the temple of Nalla-Nāyaṉār to the dēvaraṭiyāḷ by name Uḍaiyanāchchi alias Kulōttuṅgaśōḻa-māṇikkam by the tānattār of the temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00035.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Sale of rights to five tēvaraṭiyār to sing the first song (mutal pāṭṭu) of the Tiruvempāvai, carry out the hunting festival (tiruvēṭṭai) and climbing up the processional car (tiruttēr).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00029.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: In continuation with INSTamilNadu00031 and INSTamilNadu00033. It records the endowment of 5 mās of land and the tax income granted by Araiyaṉ Irumuṭicōḻa Mūvaraiyaṉ Amattai of Karuppūr.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00032.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: It registers the gift of Nallūr and surrounding villages, consisting in 360 vēlis of land, as well as the revenue in taxes from these lands, for the food offerings (tiruppaṭimāṟu) and the sacred service (tiruppaṇi). The donor is the chieftain Āḷappiṟantāṉ Mōkaṉ, alias Kaṭavarāyaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00031.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ARIE: “Incomplete. Seems to record a gift of land to the temple of Kaiyilāsamuṭaiya-Nāyaṉār ⟨at Vaṇṇattūr⟩.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00048.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records an endowment of land for singing the tiruccāḻal and for offerings to the goddess in the temple of Nalla-Nāyaṉār by Kōvaṉ Vaḷaiyamaḻakiyāṉ alias Vāṇarāyappēraiyaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00043.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: It records the construction of the temple and the consecration of the kṣetrapāla by Āṭavalla Nampi, who also gave a quarter of wetland from the neighbouring village for a sacred lamp and food offerings.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00036.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita Trento.
Summary: Registers the endowment of the village named Kāccuvakkuṭi as a devadāṉam to the temple of Nalla-nāyaṉār by the well-known Bāṇa chief and magnate Āṟakaḷūr-uṭaiya Vāṇakōvaraiyār Poṉparappiṉāṉ Rājarājatēvaṉ, alias Makatai-nāṭāḻvāṉ (Skt. Makātēcaṉ).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00037.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation of a temple (kōyil) and donation of land as arcanābhoga.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00154.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Records a gift of land to a carpenter who had built certain temples.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv17p0i0387.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records the additional endowment of a village to perform pūja in honor of Tirumalai Nāyak and Cētupati Kātta Tēvar and the mother and father of the donor, Tirumalaiya Cētupati Rakunātat Tēvar.
Languages: English, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00016.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grants records a donation that reiterates and enlarges the donation in Nāṭṭuccēri grant, Śaka year 1582.
Languages: Tamil, Telugu.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00002.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Totupatti Mātirakaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00234.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stone inscription recording the work/construction (ceykai) of a sluice by a craftsman named Kuḻaṉ. Kept in Tiṇṭivaṉam PWD (2022).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00442.