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  • Thumbnail for Sanctuary lamp
    A sanctuary lamp, chancel lamp, altar lamp, everlasting light, or eternal flame is a light that shines before the altar of sanctuaries in many Jewish and...
    9 KB (1,039 words) - 12:45, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tullia (daughter of Cicero)
    it had been buried that very day, and a lamp that the discoverers supposed to have been burning perpetually since Tullia's burial, more than fifteen...
    6 KB (714 words) - 11:48, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mathematical Magick
    set out why a perpetual motion should be feasible, why the stories about lamps burning for hundreds of years were true and how such lamps could be made...
    6 KB (869 words) - 11:36, 26 November 2024
  • sacred perpetual lamp. ..... kātan Nakkan granted one evening lamp. ..... tavan Tevan granted one evening lamp. Táran Căttan granted one evening lamp. .....
    165 KB (2,617 words) - 01:04, 28 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boothi Vikramakesari
    Pirudimarsan alias Katti Orri-uran gave 25 kalanju of gold for burning one perpetual lamp with (one) ulakku of ghee everyday the (god) Mahadeva (Siva) at Tiruneyttanam...
    6 KB (737 words) - 01:26, 27 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scriptorium
    a purpose-built scriptorium, with a sundial, a water-clock, and a "perpetual lamp," that is, one that supplied itself with oil from a reservoir. The scriptorium...
    32 KB (4,169 words) - 22:02, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Altar lamp
    Testament; in the book of Exodus, God told Moses that a lamp filled with the pure oil should perpetually burn in the Tabernacle. This is the precedent for the...
    9 KB (1,298 words) - 23:13, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Florence Nightingale
    icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. Recent commentators have asserted...
    126 KB (13,117 words) - 19:41, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil lamp
    An oil lamp is a lamp used to produce light continuously for a period of time using an oil-based fuel source. The use of oil lamps began thousands of...
    33 KB (4,261 words) - 13:56, 28 December 2024
  • agreement given by the temple servants (pathipathamulathar) to burn a perpetual lamp for 25 kazhainju of pure tested gold received by them from Chekkizhan...
    2 KB (253 words) - 10:30, 3 January 2025
  • Parantakan Arikulakesari, the son of Cholaperumaanadigal for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahadeva in Tiruneyttanam Yet another one from a temple...
    7 KB (753 words) - 16:15, 25 August 2024
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    this success the Commander Nakkan Sattan of Paradur made a gift of a perpetual lamp to the temple of Tiruvalandurai-Mahadeva at Siru-Paluvur. It is perhaps...
    5 KB (486 words) - 10:46, 11 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Vedaranyeswarar Temple
    gift of 90 sheep by a merchant to the temple for the maintenance of a perpetual lamp. Vedaranyam continued to be a part of the Chola Empire and the Chola...
    20 KB (2,057 words) - 11:01, 9 October 2024
  • Sattenepalli Taluk, Guntur District. S. 1030 Records the gift of a perpetual lamp by Kota Gokaraju son of Bhima to the temple of Ramesvara of Velupuru...
    27 KB (4,217 words) - 11:37, 13 December 2023
  • the end is peeled off. It records a gift of 20 Kalanju of gold for a perpetual lamp in the temple at Tiruppalanam in Virai-kurram, by Kadupattigal Tamarmettiyar...
    68 KB (4,688 words) - 00:50, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kodi Kuzhagar Temple
    gift of 90 sheep by a merchant to the temple for the maintenance of a perpetual lamp. The region of Kodikkarai along with Vedaranyam continued to be a part...
    9 KB (909 words) - 22:46, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parthasarathy temple, Parthivapuram
    (possibly that of king Rajasimha). The first gift was that of two perpetually-burning lamps, and was maintained by Kannan Manikkan and Pagan-Chivindravan...
    16 KB (2,032 words) - 18:12, 2 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Thirunadhikkara Cave Temple
    temple is from Chola era, and it too mentions a gift to maintain the perpetual lamp along with an autumn festival. The most visible part of the mural is...
    5 KB (513 words) - 06:12, 11 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Vellan Kumaran
    29th regnal year of Parantaka I (936 AD) Records a gift of sheep for perpetual lamp in the shrine of Srimulasthanattu Mahadeva at Atrutali in Tirumutiyur...
    10 KB (713 words) - 01:05, 27 January 2024
  • maintaining a perpetual lamp in the temple. Similar inscriptions from the following centuries also record donations of cows for the upkeep of lamps. Several...
    9 KB (889 words) - 17:37, 10 December 2024
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