Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00344.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
Version: (f8dc812), last modified (eecdbd5).
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ nittaṉ mati° ⬦ nittaṉa-mati° R1.
Translation by Ramachandran 1954
(1) Hail! Prosperity!
(1) The Nāyakar (i.e., Lord Buddha) who was Nittanamati.
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1) Prosperity! Fortune!
(1) The Lord of/with discernment (mati), the supreme being (nittaṉ).
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 56, plates V, no. 44.
Notes
- 1. See MTL, s.v. nittaṉ: “n. 1. The Supreme Being, as eternal; 2. Śiva; 3. Arhat.”
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Commentary
Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: “The word Nittanamati is evidently not to be taken here as a proper name. It may mean "one who had set his mind on poverty (wealthlessness)." The words nittaṉam and mati remind us of their Sanskrit counterparts nirdhana and mati. And the Buddha was certainly a Nirdhanamati having renounced the world.”
Ramachandran 1954’s interpretation is not fully convincing as it would be the only attestation of nittaṉam, whereas nittaṉ (from Sanskrit nitya) is found in MTL.1