Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label EpiDoc Encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00347

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Label on a Buddhist bronze.

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tārayar maṭam-uṭaiyāṉ

tārayar tārayar

The Lord Buddha of the maṭha of the Tārayar i.e., Theriyas or Sthaviras or the Elders

The Lord of the matḥa of .

comments thus: It is not clear if this inscription refers to the image itself in which case it would serve as its label meaning the "Lord," i.e., Buddha, of, i.e., worshipped in, the maṭha or monastery of the Theras, the Elders. Or the "Lord of the maṭha" may merely mean the head of the maṭha of Theras, any spiritual head or guide. The Buddha was more probably meant (cf. inscription 43).

Edited, with a facsimile in , , (p. 35 and pl. XXVI, no. 47), (p. 44 and pl. V, no. 47).

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