Cellūr, bronze of Buddha meditating in vīrāsana

Editors: Emmanuel Francis, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00001.

Summary: Dhammapada verse inscribed on Buddhist bronze.

Language: Pali.

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

Version: (f8dc812), last modified (eecdbd5).

Edition

I. uncertain

⟨1⟩ Ak(k)occhi maṁ A(va)dh(i m)aṁ ⟨2⟩ A(ji)ni ma[ṁ] Ahāsi me

a–b

ye ta ⟨3⟩ Upana(y/v)ahati vera te⟨4⟩sa na (samma)ti

c–d

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ Ak(k)occhi ⬦ Akkoccha K.

Bibliography

Edited by Kannan 2015.

Edited here by Emmanuel Francis & Vincent Tournier (2020), based on photos (Emmanuel Francis, 2012). Thanks to R. Balasubramanian, Curator of Archaeology, Government Museum, Chennai, for providing access to the bronze and allowing photography.

Primary

[K] Kannan, R. 2015. Manual on the bronzes in the Government Museum, Chennai. 2nd revised edition. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, New series, General section 17.2. Chennai: Government Museum. Pages 263–265, 299, item 20.