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.

Primary

Ramachandran, T. N. 1954. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and Other Buddhist Bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Madras: Government of Madras.
TBC, plate TBC. [siglum R1]
Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and Other Buddhist Bronzes in the Chennai Museum. 2nd edition. Chennai: Government of Tamilnadu.
Page 98, plate III, no. 20. [siglum R2]