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Documents 1–50 of 423 matching.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land after purchase for worship offerings (arcanābhoga).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00192.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Commission of a sluice by three individuals.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00459.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00084.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Kampaiyaṉār.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00430.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone erected in honour of Cattima Vakilavaṉ Vīraiyar.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00435.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: IAR 2003-04 (p. 367): “Inscibed on the granite slab, used as the step stone at the entrance of Śrī Śivasubrahmaṇya Svāmin temple at Ālantūr, Tambaram Taluk, District Kanchipuram. This slab might have been brought from a dilapidated Jaina paḷḷi at Māṅkāṭu (near Kuṉṟattūr) and laid here when this temple was constructed, probably in the 18th-19th centuries. The inscription contains the information that the daughter of one Amarnilaiyar of Paripandatturai Paricai in Āṟkkāṭṭukkūṟṟam who was a disciple of Anandavirakkuravar gifted paddy for offering at the avi (havis) and a plate for holding the offerings, at the Teruvarantanam at Māṅkāṭu in Māṅkāṭunāṭu in Puliyūkkōṭṭam. 875 AD Pallava Kampavikramavarman”.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00460.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Grant (brahmadeya), with all exemptions, of the village of ... to a Brahmin.
Languages: Prakrit, Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00376.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone in honour of Caṉaṉ.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00188.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone in honour of Kaliyirāmaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00189.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation statement. It is not clear what exactly has been constructed as the inscription is on a stone slab erected in front a temple, but might have been brought there from another place.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00436.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A biruda (glorifying sobriquet) engraved on a sluice. Probably the name of the commissioner of the construction of the sluice.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00421.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Transaction concerning a donation of gold for the upkeep of a perpetual lamp.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00230.
Emmanuel Francis, Valérie Gillet.
Summary: Memorial stone set up in honour of a cock, which fought for the western quarters (mēl-cēri) of a village. It is not clear whether the stone commemorates the death of the cock when fighting (as in the case of a deceased warrior) or its victorious fight.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00397.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation of a pāḻi, that is, a stone-bed or a hermitage.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00452.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lacunose. Appears to record a donation in gold from taxes on land.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00462.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Krishnamacharlu 1942 (p. 26): “Records gift of the taxes kallāṇakkāṇam and vītanāḻi leviable from the village, by Vikramāditya-Mahābali-Vāṇarāya, at the request of the queen Atippirasādi alias Vijjiyakkaṉār, for the maintenance of the tank at Avilāli.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00330.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00256.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for supplying water to a temple.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00225.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for offering food during a festival.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00522.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for the upkeep of a perpetual lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00523.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land for offering food during a festival.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00524.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for upkeeping a perpetual lamp and of land to provide sacred food-offerings. Very similar (content, individual mentioned) to INSPallava00507.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00506.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for upkeeping a perpetual lamp and of land to provide sacred food-offerings. Very similar (content, individual mentioned) to INSPallava00506.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00507.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for upkeeping a perpetual lamp.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00508.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for providing food a the time of the Karttikai festival in Tiruviḻicil.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00505.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Fragment. Regnal year only.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00521.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Viṉaiyittaṉ and donation in honour of the deceased hero.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00425.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Cākūḻaṉ Vēḷāḷaṉ and recording a donation of land in honour of him.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00451.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of rice to a god’s temple.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00464.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00198.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00082.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00074.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00088.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the death of a hero in a fight.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00286.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the death of a hero in a fight.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00295.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the death of a hero.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00304.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00087.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the death of a hero in a fight.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00285.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land for food offering (amutu) to a god (Mahādeva of the Tirukāḷīśvara).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00438.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of a Brahmin during a raid on a maṭha.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00141.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land for food-offering and for the upkeep of a perpetual lamp.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00125.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone set up in honour of a hero whose name is lost.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00433.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Laksminarayan Rao 1955 (p. 23): “Fragment. In characters of about the 9th century A.D.” Laksminarayan Rao 1955 (p. 56): “At Chinnanāgapūṭi, Chittoor District, was found a record (No. 133 of 1943-44) of Kō-Vijaya-Narasi[ṃhavarman] incised in Tamil characters of the 9th century A.D. He is apparently identical with the homonynous chief figuring in the Kīḻmuttukūr and Baṅgavāḍi inscriptions of the same period. In the A.R. for 1933-34, Part II, para. 6, a chieftain of this name whose record is engraved in Vaṭṭeḻuttu characters has been assigned to the Western Gaṅga dynasty. But the reasons given there for treating him as a prince of this family are not satisfactory. Until more convincing evidence is found it would be safe not to connect him with any known ruling family of this period and region. ”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00349.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation of a temple for Siṁhanandi Bhaṭṭāra by Ciṟiyanaṅkaiyār in the name of Vīrattoḻilar.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00449.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the death of a hero.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00309.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the death of a hero.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00310.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of hero.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00528.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the foundation of a temple (kōyil) by Kumāraṉ, the nephew of Cōmāciyār.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00044.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Krishnamacharlu and Laksminarayan Rao 1952: “Carelessly engraved and fragmentary. Mentions (village) Iracai.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00326.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Krishnamacharlu 1937 (p. 14): “In characters of the 9th century A.D. Mentions Caṭṭi-Viṇṇakaram and Pāṇṭimāṇikkamaraca […], son of Kāvalampākkiḻār.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00371.