Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00351.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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Umaiyar tiruvāli-y-āḻvār nāyakar

tiruvāli-y-āḻvār tiruvāliyāḻvār

The Nāyakar i.e., Lord Buddha of i.e., set up or donated by Umaiyar, a devotee hailing from Tiruvāli.

The Lord of Umaiyar Tiruvāli Āḻvār.

comments thus: Tiruvāli also called Tiruvāli-Tirunakari is the name of a village near Cīrkaḻi in the Tanjore district where the Śaiva Saint Campantar and the Vaiṣṇava Āḻvār Tirumaṅkai met. According to the Divyasūricarita and Vaiṣṇava literature and tradition, Tirumaṅkai Āḻvār of the 8th century A.D. is said to have robbed one of the Buddhist vihāras of Nākappaṭṭiṉam of a golden image of the Buddha and to have utilized the gold for constructing the prākāra walls of the Vaiṣṇava shrine of Raṅganātha at Śrīraṅkam.

Edited, with a facsimile in , , (p. 34, no. 5 and pl. XXVI, no. 51), (p. 43 and pl. V, no. 51).

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