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putta-Uttama-nāyakar

putta-Uttama-nāyakar putta Uttama nāyakar

The Lord who was the greatest of the Buddhas.

The foremost Lord Buddha.

(p. 92) comments thus: Here Śākyamuni Buddha’s relative importance to other previous Buddhas such as Dīpaṅkara, etc., is implied.

Edited in , with a facsimile (p. 92 and pl. XXIV, no. 1). See also , , (p. 108 and pl. III, no. [1]).

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

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