Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00302.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
Version: (f8dc812), last modified (eecdbd5).
Translation by Ramachandran 1954
(1) The Nāyaka (Buddha), the lord of Buddhist forum of theological debate.1
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1) The glorious Lord [of] the stage (araṅkam2).
Bibliography
Edited in Ramachandran 1954, with a facsimile.
Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Ramachandran 1954 and the facsimile therein.
Primary
[R1] Ramachandran, T. N. 1954. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Madras: Government of Madras. Page TBC, plates XIV, no. 2.
[R2] Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Revised edition. Chennai: Government of Tamilnadu. Page 106, pages III, no. 2.
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<p n="1">The Nāyaka <supplied reason="explanation">Buddha</supplied>, the lord of Buddhist forum of theological debate.<note>Cf. Madurai <foreign>caṅkappalakai</foreign>.</note></p>
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<p n="1">The glorious Lord <supplied reason="subaudible">of</supplied> the stage <supplied reason="explanation"><foreign>araṅkam</foreign><note>That is, Sanskrit <foreign>raṅga</foreign>.</note></supplied>.</p>
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<p><bibl><ptr target="bib:Ramachandran1954_01"/></bibl>'s suggestion that the Buddha is here <quote>the lord of Buddhist forum of theological debate</quote> with reference to the Maturai <foreign>caṅkappalakai</foreign><note>See MTL, s.v. <foreign>caṅkappalakai</foreign>: <quote>Miraculous seat capable of accommodating only deserving scholars, believed to have been granted by Śiva at Madurai to the Sangam poets.</quote></note> appears far-fetched. It seems that the Buddha is presented here as a rival of Viṣṇu, known as Raṅganātha, "the Lord of the stage," in his famous temple on the Śrīraṅga island at Trichy.</p>
<p>See <ref target="DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00381.xml">Tamil Nadu 381</ref>.</p>
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Commentary
Ramachandran 1954’s suggestion that the Buddha is here “the lord of Buddhist forum of theological debate” with reference to the Maturai caṅkappalakai3 appears far-fetched. It seems that the Buddha is presented here as a rival of Viṣṇu, known as Raṅganātha, "the Lord of the stage," in his famous temple on the Śrīraṅga island at Trichy.
See Tamil Nadu 381.