Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00320

Summary: Label or donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.

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Edition

¹Āḷ Uṭai piḷḷai

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

¹Āḷuṭai Piḷḷai.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹The Son, Lord of men.

Commentary

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.

Bibliography

Edited in Ramachandran 1954, with a facsimile.

Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Ramachandran 1954 and the facsimile therein.

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