Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00347.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
Version: (f8dc812), last modified (53d0085).
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ [1×] (t)ārayar ⬦ tārayar R3.
Translation by Ramachandran 1992
(1) The Lord (Buddha) of the maṭha of the Tārayar (i.e., Theriyas or Sthaviras or the Elders)
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1) The Lord [of] the matḥa of ….
Bibliography
Edited, with a facsimile in Ramachandran 1954, Ramachandran 1965, Ramachandran 1992 (p. 35 and pl. XXVI, no. 47), Ramachandran 1992 (p. 44 and pl. V, no. 47).
Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Ramachandran 1992 and the facsimile therein.
Primary
[R1] Ramachandran, T. N. 1954. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Madras: Government of Madras.
[R2] Ramachandran, T. N. 1965. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Reprint. Madras: Government of Madras.
[R3] Ramachandran, T. N. 1992. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Reprint. Madras: The Director of Museums.
[R4] Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Revised edition. Chennai: Government of Tamilnadu.
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Ramachandran 1992 comments thus: “It is not clear if this inscription refers to the image itself in which case it would serve as its label meaning the "Lord," i.e., Buddha, of, i.e., worshipped in, the maṭha or monastery of the Theras, the Elders. Or the "Lord of the maṭha" may merely mean the head of the maṭha of Theras, any spiritual head or guide. The Buddha was more probably meant (cf. inscription 43).”