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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 1–21 of 21 matching.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Records a resolution of the 98 sub-castes of Left-hand and Right-hand castes to meet to hear complains about royal officials, Brahmins and Veḷḷāḷars.
Languages: Sanskrit, None, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv28p0i0034.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Registers an undertaking given by the residents of Caṇpai, comprising the ninety-eight sub-castes of the Right-hand and left-hand castes, to pay contributions for the maintenance of a temple.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv22p0i0103.
Dorotea Operato, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records a feud between a local chief and the three sons of his brother, who were banned from the country as traitors.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv07p0i0118.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Refers to a quarrel between the Right and Left hand castes which lasted for four years.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv41p0i0204.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Gathering of representatives of different villages, comprising members of the Right and Left hand classes, for the punishment of a culprit.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv41p0i0201.
Dorotea Operato, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the grant of certain privileges to temple servants.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv03p0i0025.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Registers that the community of merchants nānā-dēśi at Mayilārppil, declared Ayyapuḻal-Kāṭṭūr, to be a vīrapaṭṭiṉa and laid down certain rules of conduct to be followed by the members of the Vaḷañjika sect residing in that village.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv38p0i0256.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Records a gift of land to a carpenter who had built certain temples.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv17p0i0387.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Registers certain privileges granted to the Kammāḷars of Kāñchikkūval nāḍu.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv36p0i0186.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Mentions the taxes paṭṭaṭai-āyam and paṭṭaṭai-nūl-āyam to be paid by the Ceṭṭis, Kaikkōlars, Vāṇikars and other communities working in the eighteen professional castes.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv36p0i0221.
Dorotea Operato, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Grant of tax exemptions for certain lands after the temple they belonged to failed to protect its treasure during a conflict between Right-hand and Left-hand castes/classes
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv24p0i0053.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: It appears to record certain rules framed by the merchant guild of Ayyapoḻil concerning the Right-Hand and Left-Hand castes.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv14p0i0251.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Records the misbehavious of three Brahmanas, accused to behave badly ’in the manner of lower jātis’.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv26p0i0333.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Registers the resolution of the assembly of Nālūr alias not to engage certain persons for doing the temple services. It further declared that those persons who act against the resolution are enemies of the village.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv36p0i0332.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: This inscription states that the Kaikkōḷars and other members of the Left-Hand caste made some contribution for burning a lamp in the same temple.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv39p0i0217.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Orders that the Left-Hand and the Right-Hand castes of Tiruvaṇṇāmalai should enjoy the same privileges.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0155.
Dorotea Operato, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Assessment of the conduct (vṛtti) of Rathakāras or Kammāḷars, based on the Śāstras, Āgamas, and Purāṇas examined by Brāhmaṇas residing in Pāṇṭikulāntaka-caturvedimaṅkalam.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv17p0i0603.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: It gives a list of the several temple servants who were recipients of money, but it is not clear from whom and on what account.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv23p0i0047.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Compact between the 98 sub-groups of the Iṭaṅkai class of Ūṟṟattūr and nearby villages. Contains a record about the origin Iṭaṅkai class, as described by themselves.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv38p0i0489.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Seems to record a grant for worship and repairs in the temple of Aviṉāsi Āḷuḍaiyār at Tiruppukkoḷiyūr by the three classes of people residing in Veḷḷalūr.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv36p0i0142.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Records a gift of offerings to a temple, to be placed under the protection of the ninety-nine (people) belonging to the Left-hand caste
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv41p0i0331.