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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 1–15 of 15 matching.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Supplementary record to INStfaSIIv39p0i0030. It records the tax-free land endowment made by the inhabitants of Tiruttiyūr-Muṭṭa-nāṭu for the same image of Tiruvātavūr-Nāyaṉār (Māṇikkavācakar) installed by Sundara-Pāṇḍiya-Paṭṭaṉ. The inscription extends the endowment in order to cover the expenses of the Mārkaḻi-Tiruvātirai festival and other details about the fiscal treatment of the lands.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv39p0i0031.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Land grant made by the residents of Viyātaraiyaṉ-kōṭṭai to the authorities of the temple Tiruccaṉṉavaṉam-uṭaiya-nāyaṉār at Tiruttiyūr-Muṭṭam for the maintenance of the image of Tiruvātavūr-Nāyaṉār (Māṇikkavācakar), which had been installed there by a certain Sundara-Pāṇṭiiya-Paṭṭaṉ alias Imametaruvān, one of the thirty Śivabrāhmaṇa vaṭṭam. The tax-free land shall cover the expenses for the food offerings (amutupaṭi) and the adornment of the idol (cāttuppaṭi). The record was to be engraved on stone and copper.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv39p0i0030.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: It records a gift of four mās (given with boundaries) land by the inhabitants of Tirukkōvalūr at the request of the śivabrahmaṇa Kauśikaṉ Mallaṉ Amutaṉ. The land was meant to carry out several services during the Tiruvātirai festival in the month of Mārkaḻi, such as listening to the Tiruvempāvai and giving sacred water, food offerings, and giving sacred cloths.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv41p0i0012.
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: English, Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0357.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Foundation inscription or label inscription of the stone temple. On the lintel of the southern door of the central shrine.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00065.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Statue brought from Pōlakam (Pondicherry). A certain Nāyakattār Āṇṭāṇ Kōtai, alias Kulōttuṅka-rāyaṇ consecrated the image of Tiruvātavūr-Nāyaṉār (Māṇikkavācakar) at the temple of Pōlakam and donated lands for food offerings and the maintenance of sacred lamps.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00073.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: It records that the temple administrators (tēvakaṉmi) and the māheśvaras should carry out the worshipping and food offering of Tiruvātavūr-Nāyaṉār (Māṇikkavācakar), whose image was installed by a certain Tiruveḷḷaṟai-cōkkaṉ Uyyavantāṉ, alias Sundara-pāṇṭiya-brahmatarāyaṉ.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00071.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: A landowner (uṭaiyāṉ) from Kuḷattūr installed copper images of different idols, including that of Tiruvātavūr-Nāyaṉār (Māṇikkavācakar). It seems to also have given lands to tēvaraṭiyār.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00072.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Continuation of previous inscription (SII No. 4). Revenue in paddy and gold that several villages were obliged to pay to the temple. The territories that were bound to pay taxes are described in minute detail. The revenue was measured by the marakkāl Āṭavallāṉ.
Languages: English, Sanskrit, Tamil, Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv02p0i0005.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Revenue in paddy and gold that several villages were obliged to pay to the temple. The territories that were bound to pay taxes are described in minute detail. The revenue was measured by the marakkāl Āṭavallāṉ.
Languages: English, Sanskrit, Tamil, Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv02p0i0004.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Land endowment by two (tēvarāṭiyār) for the consecration of the images of the saint (tēvar) Tirunāvukkaraicu, the ruler (āḷikaḷ) of Tiruvātavūr (i.e., Māṇikkavācakar), and the saint (tēvar) Tirukkaṇṇappar.
Languages: English, Sanskrit, Tamil, Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0228.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Mentions that the garden of the temple is named Māṇikkavācakaṉ.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00074.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: ARIE 1926-27: States that, as the Hoysaḷa king Narasiṁhadeva destroyed the country and the temples and took away the (images of) gods, Uṭaiya-nāyakaṉ alias Tēvāram-aḻakiyāṉ-vāṇarājaṉ, a mutali of Nāyaṉār-Vāṇakōvaraiyar, set up in the temple of Tiruvaṟattuṟai-uṭaiya-nāyaṉār, the images of Āṭkoṇṭanāyaka and his consort with a prabhā, and of Tiruvātavūr-Perumāḷ.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00069.
Renato Dávalos.
Summary: Sale of land made by the tēvaraṭiyār of the temple, whose name is lost, to set up an image of Tiruvātavūr-tēvar (Māṇikkavācakar) in the third prakāra of the temple and the food offerings associated with its worship.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00070.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Land-purchase for donation.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv05p1i1358.