Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00304.

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (4a0c02e), last modified (eecdbd5).

Edition

⟨1⟩ cōḻa-perum-paḷḷi Āḻvār

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

(1) The God (Lord Buddha) of the Cōḻa perumpaḷḷi.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) The Lord (āḻvār) [of] the Cōḻa Perumpaḷḷi.1

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: “Evidently the purpose of this inscription is to announce that the votive image of the Buddha belonged to the Buddhist monastery built by the Śailendras and endowed by Rājendra Cōḻa.”

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, plate TBC.

[R2] Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Revised edition. Chennai: Government of Tamilnadu. Page 106, plates III, no. 4.

Notes

  1. 1. See the Smaller Leiden Plates (EI 22.35).