Texts

Texts database last updated 2025-06-19 12:08.

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 1–50 of 371 matching.

Āṭutuṟai, Aparādhakṣamēśvara Temple

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.

Caṇpai, Jambunāta temple, Acyutadeva Mahārāja, Śaka year 1544

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.

Ceṅkama, Ṛṣabheśvara temple, Śaka year 1180

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.

Elvānāśūr, Grāmārdhanātha Temple, time of Vijayarāya Mahārāya

Dorotea Operato.

Summary: It states that, as a result of the collection of kāṇikkai from the ryots of the Right-hand and Left-hand classes by the officers of state on each change of regime or administration, the former became impoverished and ran away from their homes to other kingdoms consequently worship and festivals in temples ceased and the land became infested with disease causing intense mental anguish to the people.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INStfaSIIv22p0i0161.

Guḍimallūr, Bhūmīśvara temple, time of Ariyaṇa-Uḍaiyar, Tuntumi year

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.

Guḍimallūr, Bhūmīśvara temple, time of Pāṇḍya Māṟavarman Kulaśēkharadēva, year 12

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.

Karuvūr, Paśupatīśvara temple, time of Kōnēriṉmaikoṇṭāṉ, year 15

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.

Kāṭṭūr, Vīṟṟirundaperumāḷ temple

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.

Nārttāmalai, Tirumalaikkatampar temple, time of Tribhuvanachakravartin Śrī Rājendracōḻadeva, 7th regnal year

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.

Pāriyūr, Amarapaṇīśvara temple, Tribhuvanachakravartin Kōṉēriṉmaikoṇḍāṉ, 15th year

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.

Pāṭi, Tiruvallīśvara temple

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.

Pāṭi, Tiruvallīśvara temple, time of Dēvarāya II

Dorotea Operato.

Summary: Gift of the tax iṭaṅkai-vari by the community of Left-hand classes and Vaṉṉiyars to a temple for conducting the hunting festival.

Languages: Kannada, Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INStfaSIIv36p0i0215.

Sankaranayinarkōyil, Śankaralingasvāmi temple.

Dorotea Operato.

Summary: This records the rights and privileges enjoyed by the communities of kuṭumpar and the Paṟaiyas as given by some unnamed Pāṇḍya king.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INStfaSIIv34p0i0432.

SII 14.251: original edition by A. S. Ramanatha Ayyar – No. 251. (A.R. No. 138 of 1910.) TENKARAI, PERIYAKULAM TALUK, MADURAI DISTRICT. ON A STONE SET UP IN THE COURT-YARD OF THE MŪLASTHĀNĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Dorotea Operato.

Summary: This record of Jaṭāvarmaṉ Śrīvallabha is dated in the 20+1st year of his reign. It mentions the merchant-guild of Ayyapoḻil and appears to record certain rules framed by them in regard to the social classes Valaṅgai and Iḍaṅgai. As it is much damaged its full purport cannot be made out.

Language: Tamil.