Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00319.

Summary: Label with donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (12f3008), last modified (eecdbd5).

Edition

⟨1⟩ caṅkāṇṭāḷ nāyakar

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ caṅkāṇṭāḷ ⬦ caṅkāṇṭāṉ R1.

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

(1) The Nāyakar (Buddha) donated by Caṅkāṇṭāṉ.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) The Lord [of] Caṅkāṇṭāḷ.1

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: “The donor’s name is given here. Or it may mean the Buddha, the Lord of all treasures (including śaṅkha).” If the correct reading is caṅkāṇṭāḷ (a feminine form) and not caṅkāṇṭāṉ, the interpretation as a designation of the Buddha seems precluded.

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 98, plates III, no. 19.

Notes

  1. 1. "She who governs / rules over the conch."