Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00321.

Summary: Label or 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⟩ Āṉantar tēvar

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

(1) The Tēvar (i.e., Buddha) donated by Āṉantar (Ānanda) / Buddha the blissful.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) The God [of] Āṉantar / The God, the Blissful One.

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 100, plates III, no. 21.