Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label EpiDoc Encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00373

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Label on a Buddhist bronze.

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tiru-v-uṭaiyār Ammai A kaḷaṅka-p-perumāḷ

The Great Being Akaḷaṅka, who is both mother and father of the world.

The Lord perumāḷ AkaḷaṅkaLiterally: "the Stainless One," a name of the Buddha., the mother / the beauty. ammai, the glorious Lord / the Lord of Fortune.

comments thus: Akalaṅka is the Buddha. The concept that he is both father and mother is worth comparing with Kālidāsa's jagataḥ pitarau in the Raghuvaṃśa. This inscription is great importance to our study of the Buddhism that flourished in Nākappaṭṭiṉam or South India in about the 14th and 15th centuries A.D. The record is a praise of the Buddha, as Akalaṅka, father and mother of the world. The image according to the donor's devotion and prayer stands for the Buddha.

Edited in , with a facsimile.

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

TBC TBC 61-62 VI, no. 73