Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00349.
Summary: Label with donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
Version: (4a0c02e), last modified (eecdbd5).
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ Āttūṟ ⬦ Āttūr R1.
Translation by Ramachandran 1954
(1) The Nāyakar [Lord] Cāriputtira of Āttūr.
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1) The Lord of Cāriputtiraṉ of Āttūr.
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. Pages 48–49, plates V, no. 49.
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Commentary
Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: “The Lord of God, i.e., the image, was a gift of Cāriputtira of Āttūr. The inscription is interesting as it shows that the donor was named after Śāriputra, the youngest and cleverest of the Buddha’s disciples, who discomfited Kuṇḍalakeśin and of whom little is known beyond the fact that a stūpa at Sāñcī was erected over a relic attributed to him. The purport of the inscription is that the image is a votive offering made of the Nāyakar (Buddha) by Śāriputra, a native of Āttūr, the location of which is not known.”