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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 1–26 of 26 matching.

Aracalāpuram, memorial stone for a cock

Emmanuel Francis, Valérie Gillet.

Summary: Memorial stone set up in honour of a cock, which fought for the western quarters (mēl-cēri) of a village. It is not clear whether the stone commemorates the death of the cock when fighting (as in the case of a deceased warrior) or its victorious fight.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00397.

Ciṟṟampākkam, step-stone

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Records the foundation of a temple (kōyil) by Kumāraṉ, the nephew of Cōmāciyār.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00044.

Eṭakkal, hero-stone, time of [name lost], year [figure lost]

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00288.

Eṭutta Vāynattam, hero-stone, no king, no date

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Cāmi.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00402.

Iḷaṅkuṇṇi, hero-stone, no king, no year

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00313.

Intaḷūr, memorial stone for a cock

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Memorial stone set up in honour of a victorious cock.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00401.

Kalciṟunākalūr, hero-stone, no king, no year

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Kumarar […].

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00416.

Kalciṟunākalūr, hero-stone, no king, no year

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Cāmi.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00501.

Kāyampaṭṭu, hero-stone, no king, no year

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Kattaiyaṉ, son of Iṟaiyamaṉ of Tōkkaipāṭi during a cattle-raid in Tōkkaipāṭi.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00469.

Kīḻmuṭṭukūr hero-stone, time of Parakesarivarman, year 29

Emmanuel Francis.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00160.

Kīḻmuṭṭukūr hero-stone, time of Parakesarivarman, year 32

Emmanuel Francis.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00161.

Malayaṉūr, hero-stone, time of [name lost], year [figure lost]

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.

Malayaṉūr, hero-stone, time of [name lost], year [figure lost]

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.

Pōntai, hero-stone, time of [name lost], year [figure lost]

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00290.

SII 12.139: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – No. 139. (A.R. No. 228 of 1904). ŚIṄGAVARAM, GINGEE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE LEFT WING-STONE AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE RAṄGANĀTHA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: The title ‘Āvaniāḷappiṟandāṉ’ is added in the present inscription dated in the 4th year, to the name Sakalabhuvanachakravarttigaḷ Kōpperuñjiṅga. The inscription registers a gift of 30 cows for a perpetual lamp in the temple of Tiruppaṉṟikuṉṟu-Emberumāṉ by Iḷaiyaperumāḷ Vattarāyar son of Tavañcheydāṉ Vattarāyaṉ of Karuvili. The astronomical details given in the record correspond to A.D. 1246, August 26, Sunday; ·53; the nakshatra Tiruvōṇam had, however, ended the previous day and ‘Śravishṭhā’ was current till ·75 on this day.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0139.

SII 4.1415: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri – No. 1415. (A.R. No. 619 of 1912). ON A STONE AT ATARAGULEA IN ERIYANA (CEYLON).

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1415.

SII 5.1357: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri – No. 1357. (A.R. No. 402 of 1896). ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE FLOOR ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE FIRST PRAKARA OF THE SAME TEMPLE. Puḷḷi is marked in this inscription.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv05p1i1357.

SII 5.1: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri – No. 1. (A.R. No. 452 of 1893). ON A STONE PILLAR SET UP BEHIND THE SHRINE OF THE BHAVANARAYANA TEMPLE AT SARPAVARAM, COCANADA TALUK, GODAVARI DISTRICT.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv05p1i0001.

SII 5.223: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri – No. 223. (A.R. No. 547 of 1893). ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE FLOOR AT THE SOUTHERN ENTRANCE INTO THE SHRINE OF THE GOSHTHISVARA TEMPLE AT PERUR, COIMBATORE TALUK AND DISTRICT.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv05p1i0223.

SII 5.235: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri – No. 235. (A.R. No. 559 of 1893). ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE SAME WALL.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv05p1i0235.

SII 5, appendix, no. 54: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri – No. 54. (A.R. No. 54 of 1888). ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE COURT-YARD OF THE SAME TEMPLE. Ibid No. 124.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv05p2i0054.

SII 5, appendix, no. 57: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri – No. 57. (A.R. No. 57 of 1888). ON ANOTHER STONE IN THE SAME PLACE. Ibid No. 126. This inscription is engraved on a hero-stone bearing the image of a man holding in his right hand a sword and in the left a bow.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv05p2i0057.

SII 6.7: original edition by K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyer – No. 7. (A.R. No. 58 of 1897). ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE FIRST PRAKARA IN THE SAME TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv06p0i0007.

Teṉmuṭiyaṉūr, hero-stone, time of [name lost], year [figure lost]

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00289.

Veṇmaṇi, hero-stone, time of [name lost], year [figure lost]

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero. See ARIE 1939-1943 (p. 142): “In characters of the 9th century A.D. Engraved above the figure of a warrior represented with a shield in the left hand and a scimitar in the right. Records the death of Kaṇavayaṉ, the disciple of the preceptor (Ācāṉ) Teṉṉavaṉ, when Veṅmaṇi was destroyed in the time of Valluvik-Kaṅkaraiyar.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00373.

Viriñcipuram, hero-stone, time of [name lost], year [figure lost]

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero. See ARIE 1939-1943 (p. 55): “Highly damaged. Seems to refer to the grant of a kannāṭu to the hero represented, by the side of the inscription, with a bow and a dagger in his hands. The characters are of about the 10th century A.D.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00375.