Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00348

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

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Edition

1pira¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ āḻvār nāyakar.

Apparatus

1 pira¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ ◇ piṟan R1

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1The Nāyakar (Lord Buddha) put up by Piranāḻvār.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The Lord of Piraṉ Āḻvār.↓1

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "The donor is a devotee (āḻvār) by name Pirān. Piran may be Pirān. Here Piran or Pirān is used in the theological sense, when it is applied by different votaries to their respective gods or objects of worship."

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.
Pages 55–56, plate V, no. 48. [siglum R2]

Notes

↑1. That is, "the devotee of God." See MTL, s.v. pirāṉ: "n. prob. peru-mai. cf. bṛhan nom. sing. of bṛhat. [M. pirān.] 1. Lord, king, chief, master; 2. God; 3. Śiva."