Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Authors of digital edition: T. N. Ramachandran, Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Contributor: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Tamil (tamil)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00301.

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00301.xml.

Version: 2026-08-14 13:24 (69e3379), last modified 2026-07-17 15:32 (b80acdf).

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

⟨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. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, New series, General section 7.1. Madras: Government Press. 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.

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