Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label EpiDoc Encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00349

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Label with donor's name on a Buddhist bronze.

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Āttūṟ cāriputtira-nāyakar

Āttūṟ Āttūr

The Nāyakar Lord Cāriputtira of Āttūr.

The Lord of Cāriputtiraṉ of Āttūr.

comments thus: The Lord of God, i.e., the image, was a gift of Cāriputtira of Āttūr. The inscription is interesting as it shows that the donor was named after Śāriputra, the youngest and cleverest of the Buddha's disciples, who discomfited Kuṇḍalakeśin and of whom little is known beyond the fact that a stūpa at Sāñcī was erected over a relic attributed to him. The purport of the inscription is that the image is a votive offering made of the Nāyakar (Buddha) by Śāriputra, a native of Āttūr, the location of which is not known.

Edited in , with a facsimile.

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

TBC TBC 48-49 V, no. 49