# Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00304

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00304.xml

Language: Tamil [Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-09 18:23 (fbd1441), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10
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## Summary

Label on a Buddhist bronze.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ cōḻa-perum-paḷḷi Āḻvār

## Translation by Ramachandran 1954

⟨1⟩ The God (Lord Buddha) of the Cōḻa perumpaḷḷi.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ The Lord (āḻvār) ⟨of⟩ the Cōḻa Perumpaḷḷi.[1]

## Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: “Evidently the purpose of this
inscription is to announce that the votive image of the Buddha belonged
to the Buddhist monastery built by the Śailendras and endowed by
Rājendra Cōḻa.”

## Bibliography

Edited in Ramachandran 1954, with a facsimile.

Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on
Ramachandran 1954 and the facsimile therein.

### Primary

[R1] Ramachandran, T. N. 1954. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist
bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum,
New series, General section 7.1. Madras: Government Press. Page TBC,
plate TBC.

[R2] Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist
bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Revised edition. Chennai: Government of
Tamilnadu. Page 106, plates III, no. 4.

[1] See the Smaller Leiden Plates (EI 22.35).