Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00339.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Label on a Buddhist bronze. Museum and Picture Gallery, Baroda, acc. no. A. 55. : Tamil inscription in Cōḻa characters on the lower rim of the pedestal.

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cōḻa-perum-paḷḷi ṉnāyakar

The Nāyakar God Lord Buddha of (or dedicated to) the Cōḻaperumpaḷḷi.

The Lord nāyakar of the Cōḻa Perumpaḷḷi.See the Smaller Leiden plates.

comments thus: Obviously this votive image was meant for the Cōḻaperumpaḷḷi which was a celegrated Buddhist vihāra erected in Nāgapaṭṭiṇam by the Śailendra ruler of Śrīvijaya (in Sumatra) and named after the reigning Cōḻa king, Kulottuṅga I.

Edited in , with a facsimile (p. 124, no. 178 and pl. XXV, no. 39). See also , , (p. 140, no. 178 and IV, no. 39).

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