Nākappaṭṭiṉam, tank foundation, Śaka year 15(6)0

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Inscription recording the foundation of a tank. Engraved on the back of a stone Buddha statue kept in the Chicago Art Institute (access no. 1964.556).

Language: Tamil (tam).

Version: 2025-10-06 18:49 (d8a79ed), last modified 2025-10-06 18:49 (d8a79ed).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī cālivāka-

⟨2⟩ ...-

⟨16⟩ ṣattiḷē pōka-k-kaṭavar ā(kavum)

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–16⟩ ...

Bibliography

Reported in Ghose 2022, with photograph.

Edited and translated in Cox 2025 (pp. 493-494), with photograph (fig. 10, p. 504).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis based on documentation kindly supplied by Nicolas Revire (including an unpublished reading by Michael Rabe) and on Cox 2025.

Primary

[C] Cox, Whitney. 2025. “Bricks from a Tamil Pagoda.” In: For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai. Edited by Margherita Trento. Napoli: UniorPress, pp. 479–504.

Secondary

Ghose, Madhuvanti. 2022. “The monumental Buddha from Nagapattinam: The many lives of an Art Institute icon.” Orientations 53 (1), pp. 39–44.

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