Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Editors: T. N. Ramachandran, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00301.

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (4a0c02e), last modified (9b04806).

Edition

⟨1⟩ putta-Uttama-nāyakar

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ putta-Uttama-nāyakar ⬦ putta Uttama nāyakar R1954.

Translation by Ramachandran 1992

(1) The Lord who was the greatest of the Buddhas.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) The foremost Lord Buddha.

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 (p. 92) comments thus: “Here Śākyamuni Buddha’s relative importance to other previous Buddhas such as Dīpaṅkara, etc., is implied.”

Bibliography

Edited in Ramachandran 1954, with a facsimile (p. 92 and pl. XXIV, no. 1). See also Ramachandran 1965, Ramachandran 1992, Ramachandran 2005 (p. 108 and pl. III, no. [1]).

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

Primary

[R1954] Ramachandran, T. N. 1954. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Madras: Government of Madras. Page 92.

[R1965] Ramachandran, T. N. 1965. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Reprint. Madras: Government of Madras.

[R1992] Ramachandran, T. N. 1992. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Reprint. Madras: The Director of Museums.

[R2005] Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Revised edition. Chennai: Government of Tamilnadu.