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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 1–50 of 278 matching.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00203.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01010.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00025.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Inscription recording the pious donation (dharma) of Nācciyāṇaṉ. Engraved on the pedestal of a bronze Buddha statue kept in the Chicago Art Institute (access no. 2021.240).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00169.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: 17th-century inscription recording the foundation of a tank. Engraved on the back of a 12th-century stone Buddha statue first noticed in Pōḻakkuṭi, possibly brought there from Nākappaṭṭiṉam, and presently kept in the Chicago Art Institute (access no. 1964.556).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00168.
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[…].
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00005.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation/Installation of a tēvāram.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00194.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00205.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Commemoration of a tiruppaṇi ("glorious temple service") by the ascetic Guṇasāgara, disciple of the master Jinasena of the Sena congregation, in Tirumayilāpuri. It is not clear if the inscribed bronze is the tiruppaṇi itself (in which case the record is about the donation / installation of this bronze image) or if the tiruppaṇi was performed in respect of this preexisting bronze image. It is neither clear if Tirumayilāpuri is just the seat of the Sena congregation or also the place of installation of the bronze image.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00002.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00201.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Fragment. 6 lines of an inscription, the beginning of which is lost.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00202.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lamp donation.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00021.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lamp donation.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00020.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lamp donation. ARIE 1938-39 (p. 35): “Registers a gift of land for a lamp in the temple of Śrīkāmai-Nakkar by the Aiyāraṉ alias Nūṟṟeṇmak-Kavaraceṭṭi, son of Māyilaṭṭi, a merchant of Periya-aṅkāṭi at Tañcāvūr.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00024.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of goats for upkeeping a perpetual lamp and of land for a flower garden.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00022.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00160.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00161.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stone inscription stating that the distance of approximately 16 feet between two vertical stokes also inscribed is the lenght of a land-measuring rod.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00195.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Northern façade, on the wall section on the eastern side (= left) of the niche of Brahmā. Regnal year 12 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 983 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00523.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lowest inscription on the western wall section of the southern façade of the shrine, engraved on a single stone block. Regnal year 10 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 981 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00512.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the eastern wall section of the southern façade, lowest inscription. 10th regnal year of Kōpparakesarivarman = probably Uttamacōḻa (circa 981 CE). In continuation of the line 4, there is a description of another four lines of a land containing catirattu, vāykkal, kaṇṇāṟṟu, directions, etc. It does not seem to be connected, although it is the same writing.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00513.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Middle inscription on the western wall section of the southern façade of the shrine. Regnal year 12 of Kōpparakesarivarman = probably Uttamacōḻa (circa 983 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00514.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the upper part of the southernmost wall section of the western façade of the sanctuary. Regnal year 13 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 984 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00518.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Upper inscription on the lowest stone of the southernmost wall section of the western façade of the sanctuary. Regnal year 13 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 984 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00519.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lowest inscription on the lowest stone of the southernmost wall section of the western façade of the sanctuary, in continuation of INSTamilNadu00519 (zone A). It continues on the pilaster on the southern side (zone B). Regnal year 13 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 984 CE). There is no svasti śrī at the beginning of this inscription.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00520.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the northern façade, on the wall section between the ardha-maṇḍapa and the sanctuary (zone A). Line 16 is on the vertical ledge below the wall section (zone B). Line 17 is on the horizontal part below the first ledge (zone C1). Lines 18-19 are engraved on the recess, below the first ledge (zone D). Lines 20-30 are engraved on the ardha-maṇḍapa, on the western side of the niche containing Kālārimūrti (zone E), that is, on the left of the previous zones. Regnal year 13 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 984 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00524.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Upper inscription on the eastern wall section of the southern façade. Regnal year 14 of Kōpparakesarivarman = probably Uttamacōḻa (circa 985 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00515.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the lowest part of the base (jagati) of the southern façade of the ardha-maṇḍapa. Regnal year 22 of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I (circa 929 CE). The inscription does not begin with the expected svasti śrī. The inscription is presently not entirely legible notably because of sprayed cement. ARIE states: “Gives a list of three plots of land, one of which was a gift (by purchase) by Kāḍaṉ-Mādēvaṉ of Ma[da]nakāmīśvarapuram, for providing for offerings to Vijayamaṅgalattu-Mahādēva, the other two being endowments by the assembly.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00511.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Upper inscription on the western wall section of the southern façade. Regnal year 3 of Kōvirājakesarivarman = Rājarāja I (circa 988 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00516.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Above and around the empty niche of the southern façade of the ardha-maṇḍapa. Regnal year 5 of Kōvirājakesarivarman = Rājarāja I (circa 990 CE). This long inscription is unfinished; its end may have been engraved on the eastern side of the ardha-maṇḍapa, now built over.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00517.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the upper part of the base on the western side of the central projection of the northern façade of the sanctuary. Regnal year 7 of Kōrājarājakesarivarman = Rājarāja I (circa 992 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00525.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the lowest part of the base of the northern façade: begins on the western side of the gomukha on the ardha-maṇḍapa and continues on the antarala (zone A); lines 7-11 are on the lowest part of the base of the sanctuary, on the eastern side (zone B). Regnal year 7 of Kōrājarājakesarivarman = Rājarāja I (circa 992 CE). There is no svasti śrī at the beginning of this inscription; many passages of this inscription remain illegible, and the translation is thus fragmentary.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00526.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01008.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01011.
T. N. Ramachandran, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00301.
T. N. Ramachandran, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00302.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label with donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00303.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00304.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label with donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00318.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label with donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00319.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label or donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00320.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label or donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00321.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00322.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00343.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00344.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00345.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00346.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00347.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00348.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Label with donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00349.