Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label EpiDoc Encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00348

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piranṉ āḻvār nāyakar.

piranṉ piṟan

The Nāyakar (Lord Buddha) put up by Piranāḻvār.

The Lord of Piraṉ Āḻvār.That is, "the devotee of God." See MTL, s.v. pirāṉ: n. prob. peru-mai. cf. bṛhan nom. sing. of bṛhat. [M. pirān.] 1. Lord, king, chief, master; 2. God; 3. Śiva.

comments thus: The donor is a devotee (āḻvār) by name Pirān. Piran may be Pirān. Here Piran or Pirān is used in the theological sense, when it is applied by different votaries to their respective gods or objects of worship.

Edited in , with a facsimile.

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

TBC TBC 55-56 V, no. 48