Current Version: draft, 2024-05-09Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00320
Summary: Label or donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.
Hand Description:
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1Āḷuṭai Piḷḷai.
1The Son, Lord of men.
Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "This was perhaps the name of the donor of the votive image of the Buddha." It is possibly a designation of the Buddha.
Compare with Tamil Nadu 375.
The Śaiva saint Campantar is known in epigraphical sources as āḷ-uṭaiya piḷḷaiyār.
Edited in Ramachandran 1954, with a facsimile.
Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Ramachandran 1954 and the facsimile therein.