Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00349.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Label with donor's name on a Buddhist bronze.

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Āttūṟ cāriputtira-nāyakar .

Āttūṟ Āttūr

The Nāyakar Lord Cāriputtira of Āttūr.

The Lord of Cāriputtiraṉ of Āttūr.

comments thus: The Lord of God, i.e., the image, was a gift of Cāriputtira of Āttūr. The inscription is interesting as it shows that the donor was named after Śāriputra, the youngest and cleverest of the Buddha's disciples, who discomfited Kuṇḍalakeśin and of whom little is known beyond the fact that a stūpa at Sāñcī was erected over a relic attributed to him. The purport of the inscription is that the image is a votive offering made of the Nāyakar (Buddha) by Śāriputra, a native of Āttūr, the location of which is not known.

Edited in , with a facsimile.

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

TBC TBC 48-49 V, no. 49