Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label EpiDoc Encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00344

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svasti śrī

nittaṉ mati-ṉnāyakar

nittaṉ mati° nittaṉa-mati°

Hail! Prosperity!

The Nāyakar (i.e., Lord Buddha) who was Nittanamati.

Prosperity! Fortune!

The Lord of/with discernment mati, the supreme being nittaṉ.

comments thus: The word Nittanamati is evidently not to be taken here as a proper name. It may mean "one who had set his mind on poverty (wealthlessness)." The words nittaṉam and mati remind us of their Sanskrit counterparts nirdhana and mati. And the Buddha was certainly a Nirdhanamati having renounced the world.

's interpretation is not fully convincing as it would be the only attestation of nittaṉam, whereas nittaṉ (from Sanskrit nitya) is found in MTL.See MTL, s.v. nittaṉ: n. 1. The Supreme Being, as eternal; 2. Śiva; 3. Arhat.

Edited in , with a facsimile.

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

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