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Documents 1–50 of 56 matching.
Renato Dávalos.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0675.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv12p0i0245.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Gift of land for performing various services during festival, including adhyayana.
Languages: Sanskrit, None, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0043.
Emmanuel Francis, Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Donation (nivantam) of gold (kācu) and paddy, trough a land donation, in order to meet expenses at the time of the procession of the Lord of Citamparam during festival times (tiruvāṉi, tiruvātirai, tirumāci). The recipients include Śrīmāheśvaras and 25 Brahmins who are to be fed, as well as reciters of Tiruttoṇṭattokai. Local communities of a nakaram (merchants, oil sellers, weavers, etc.) are demeed to maintain this donation.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0223.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Endowment of a tank and a land for the āṇṭārs (devotees) who recite the Tiruñāṉam in the sacred hall (tirukkaikōṭṭi) of the temple of the Lord of the Rājendracoḷīśvara in Mummuṭicōḻanallūr. The following texts are mentioned: Tiruñāṉam, Tirumuṟai and a text, the title of which begins with Tirukka[…]. Ramanatha Ayyar 1927 (p. 24) understands that the endowment applies to the reciters of the Tiruñāṉam, excluding the Tirumuṟai and the Tirukka[…].
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00005.
Renato Dávalos.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv38p0i0140.
G.V. Srinivasa Rao, Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv22p0i0165.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita Trento, S.A.S. Sarma, Vigneshwaran Muralidaran.
Summary: ...
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Outside of Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamil-outside-TN-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilOutsideTN00003.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Valérie Gillet.
Summary: Record donations by Nakkaṉ of Paḻuvūr, in three parts. Part A records the donation of the village of Neṭuvāyil by Nakkaṉ of Paḻuvūr for the Mahādeva of the Vijayamaṅgala temple that he had built in Vāṉavaṉ Mahādevi Caturvedimaṅgala. It starts with a Sanskrit eulogy and business portion and then describes, in its Tamil portion dated to the 14th year of Parakesarivarman (Uttama Cōḻa, 984 CE), the transaction and the boundaries of the donated village. Part B, which starts on the same line where Part B ends, provides the detail of various provisions to undertake with the taxes and paddy thus donated. Part C details the provisions for a tiruvuṇṇaḻikaippuṟam in favour of the god of the Vijayamaṅgala temple, in force from the 7th year of Rājarāja (Rājarāja I Cōḻa, 992 CE).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0357.
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.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00047.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Seems to record the appointment of Būmāḻvi, daughter of Poṟkōyil-Naṅgai, as the devaraḍiyāḷ of the temple for performing the śākkai on festival occasions and to sing the Tiruvempāvai (kaṭai-k-kāppu), before the deity on certain terms (details lost) on the demise of one Uṭaiyanācci, alias Kulottuṅga Cōḻa-māṇikkam, daughter of Tiruvēkampa-Naṅkai.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00046.
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.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00044.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: States that this maṇḍapa is [the gift of] Rājarājadevaṉ alias Poṉparappināṉ and that it was constructed by Cuntaṉ-Paṭṭaṉ alias Tillaināyaka-Vēḷāṉ of Āṟṟūr.
Languages: Sanskrit, 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
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00049.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: 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.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00041.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: 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.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00042.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Unfinished. Seems to record sale of rights [prob. of singing] to the dēvaraḍiyāḷ named Mādu[mai] alias Kōvaṇavarkulā
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00030.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the construction of a shrine for and consecration of the image of Kṣētrapāla in the temple of Nalla-Nāyaṉār at Nallūr by Āḍavalla-Nambi of Koṭumpuṉam, who is stated also to have endowed a quarter vēli of wet land for offerings and lamps to the deity.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00036.
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..
Languages: Sanskrit, 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 an āśrayaliṅga in the temple by Tillaināyaka-vēḷāṉ.
Languages: Sanskrit, 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.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00035.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00029.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Registers the gift of the whole village of Nallūr consisting of 360 vēli of land and of other pieces elsewhere amounting to ten vēli and odd with their income in taxes like mākkalam, āyam and kīḻiṟaipāṭṭam for the requirements of the temple of Nallanāyaṉār at Nallūr by Āḷappiṟandāṉ Mōgaṉ alias Kāḍavarāyaṉ.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00031.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the gift, with its income in taxes like pāḍikāval, taṟiyiṟai, etc., of 5 mā of land other than those mentioned in No. 145 above by Irumuḍiśōḻa-Mūvaraiyaṉ Amattai of Karuppūr.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00032.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: In characters of about the 12th century A.D. Records the consecration of the image of Dakśiṇāmūrtti and an endowment of wet lands for worship to the deity by a certain Maṇḍai Ponnaṉ alias .... śōḻa-Malaiyamāṉ of [the village of] Śāttiyakkam.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00034.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Registers an endowment of the village Kācccuvakkuṭi in Kīḻārāṟṟūr-kūṟṟam, a subdivision of Milāṭu alias Jananātha-vaḷanāṭu, as dēvadāṉa to the temple of Nalla-Nāyaṉār by Rājarājadēvaṉ alias Vāṇakōvaraiyaṉ of Ārakalūr. This is signed at the end by Makadaināṭāḻvāṉ alias Vāṇakōvaraiyaṉ who was perhaps the donor himself or the officer who issued the order.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00037.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Incomplete. Seems to record a gift of land to the temple of Kaiyilāsamuṭaiya-Nāyaṉār [at Vaṇṇattūr].
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00048.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv05p1i0241.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Gift of land to temple for a festival celebrated on the queen’s birthday. The land was used for feeding students, servants, and for the singers of holy hymns (tiruppatiyam) during festival time.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv05p1i0228.
Renato Dávalos.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv39p0i0255.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Reciters of Tiruvāymoḻi
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0508.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Donation of paddy (nellu) by Rājarāja I Cōḻa, made up to the 29th year of his reign, to 48 reciters of the glorious hymns (tiruppatiyam) in the temple of Rājarājeśvara and to 2 drummers.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv02p0i0065.
Renato Dávalos, Vigneshwaran Muralidaran.
Summary: Revenue in paddy, gold, and money that several villages were obliged to pay. The territories that were bound to pay taxes are described in minute detail. The land was measured by the marakkāl Āṭavallāṉ.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv02p0i0004.
Renato Dávalos.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv17p0i0171.
Renato Dávalos.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00006.
Renato Dávalos.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0260.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Endowment of 20 kaḻañcus of gold. Out of the 3 kaḻañcus of yearly interest from this gold, 2 are endowed for the recitation in Śrī-Govindapāṭi of the tiruppatiyam beginning with the phrase kōlanaṟkuḻal. This tiruppatiyam appears to have been composed by MuvēntappiṭavūraliasKāyavāṉ Arunilai, the donor’s father.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv22p0i0333.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Grant of privileges and honours (place of honour during temple service, temple service charge) to Nāṟpatteṇṇāyiramāṇikkam, a temple woman (tēvaraṭiyār), in return for her donations.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00018.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Gift of taxes on the donor’s tēvatāṉam birthday festival for food-offerings, reciters (viṇṇapam cevvār) of the holy hymns (tiruppatiyam), and their companions (tēvarāṭiyār), the campāṉ (?), and the drummer (mattaḷakkāraṉ).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv25p0i0099.
Renato Dávalos, Margherita Trento, G. Vijayavenugopal.
Summary: See SII 14.161 for a summary of both inscriptions.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv14p0i0160.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Grant of land rights (kāṇi) by royal order tirumukam to Rājarājappiccaṉ and his relatives to daily sing holy hymns (tiruppatiyam). It seems that Rājarāja Piccaṉ and one of his relative join a group of 16 blind men, who were already in charge of singing hymns.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0749.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Gift of land for performing various services during festival, including adhyayana.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0165.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records various donations of Kṛṣṇadevarāya at the temple of Tiruvaṇṇāmalai: garments and jewelry; various buildings; food offerings and temple services; appointment, among others, of sixty dancing girls, ten reciters (otuvār) of sacred hymns (tiruppāṭṭu), two brahmins performing adhyayana.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00023.
Renato Dávalos.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0163.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land (the village of Mērāṉ Paḷḷi) as tiruppaḷḷi-y-eḻucci-p-puṟam.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0127.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, N. Ramaswamy.
Summary: Land donation by Kaṟṟaḷi Piccaṉ for appointing reciter(s) of hymns, supplier(s) of water for sacred bath of the idol, and drummer(s).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-TN-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai10007.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, N. Ramaswamy.
Summary: Land donation, that is, remission of taxes by provision of gold for tax payment, by Tirukkaṟṟaḷi Piccar to the god (deva) of Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-TN-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai10002.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Sale of 4 mā of tax-free land (iṟaiyiḻi) by the sabhai of Cāttaṉūr for the maintenance of a coconut garden (teṅku-nantavāṉam) and a flower garden (pū-nandavāṉam) to the Māhadeva at Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0025.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Sale of two mās and odd for 15 kācu made by the sabhai of Cattaṉūr to Omāci Oṟṟiyūraṉ Kūttaṉ.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0190.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita Trento.
Summary: A recapitulative set of copper-plates listing fifteen different grants dated from Śaka year 1360 to Śaka year 1448. The grants are however not ordered chronologically in the set.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-TN-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00001.