Current Version: draft, 2024-05-09Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00351
Summary: Label with donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.
Hand Description:
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1 (tiruv)āli-y-āḻvār ◇ tiruvāliyāḻvār R1
1The Nāyakar (i.e., Lord Buddha) of (i.e., set up or donated by) Umaiyar, a devotee hailing from Tiruvāli.
1The Lord [of] Umaiyar Tiruvāli Āḻvār.
Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "Tiruvāli also called Tiruvāli-Tirunakari is the name of a village near Cīrkaḻi in the Tanjore district where the Śaiva Saint Campantar and the Vaiṣṇava Āḻvār Tirumaṅkai met. According to the Divyasūricarita and Vaiṣṇava literature and tradition, Tirumaṅkai Āḻvār of the 8th century A.D. is said to have robbed one of the Buddhist vihāras of Nākappaṭṭiṉam of a golden image of the Buddha and to have utilized the gold for constructing the prākāra walls of the Vaiṣṇava shrine of Raṅganātha at Śrīraṅkam."
Edited in Ramachandran 1954, with a facsimile.
Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Ramachandran 1954 and the facsimile therein.