Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00345.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
Version: (4a0c02e), last modified (eecdbd5).
Translation by Ramachandran 1954
(1) The Tēvar (i.e., God) set up by or donated or dedicated by the writer (accountant or clerk), Nampiḷḷai.
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1) The God [of] the writer (eḻutum1) Nampiḷḷai.
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 54, plates V, no. 45.
Notes
- 1. Literally: "who writes."
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Commentary
Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: “The donor’s profession is indicated in this inscription as that of a writer. By Tēvar is meant the Great Śramaṇa, Lord Buddha himself.”