Art Institute of Chicago bronze Buddha statue, label author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00169.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata Inscription recording the pious donation (dharma) of Nācciyāṇaṉ. Engraved on the pedestal of a bronze Buddha statue kept in the Art Institute of Chicago (access no. 2021.240).

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vaṇṇakkanācciyā ṇaṉ dharmmaM

°nācciyā ṇaṉ nācciyā ṇaṉṉa notes: Given the label’s lack of the puḷḷi, it is undecidable whether the name ends in its stem consonant or with the adjectival/genitive ending -a; the possessive sense is, at any rate, clear. dharmmaM dhammam

This is the pious donation of Nācciyāṇaṉ, the coin tester vaṇṇakkaṉ.

Edited and translated in (p. 485), with photograph (fig. 8, p. 503).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis based on documentation kindly supplied by Nicolas Revire and on .