Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00301.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
Version: (2652798), last modified (53d0085).
Translation by Ramachandran 1992
(1) The Lord who was the greatest of the Buddhas.
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1) The greatest Lord who is the Buddha / among the Buddhas.
Bibliography
Edited, with a facsimile in Ramachandran 1954, Ramachandran 1965, Ramachandran 1992 (p. 92 and pl. XIV, no. 5), Ramachandran 1992 (p. 108 and pl. III, no. 5).
Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Ramachandran 1992 and the facsimile therein.
Primary
[R1] Ramachandran, T. N. 1954. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Madras: Government of Madras.
[R2] Ramachandran, T. N. 1965. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Reprint. Madras: Government of Madras.
[R3] Ramachandran, T. N. 1992. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Reprint. Madras: The Director of Museums.
[R4] Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Revised edition. Chennai: Government of Tamilnadu.
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Commentary
Ramachandran 1992 comments thus: “Here Śākyamuni Buddha’s relative importance to other previous Buddhas such as Dīpaṅkara, etc., is implied.”