Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00352.

Summary: Label with donor’s name on a Buddhist bronze.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).

Version: (f8dc812), last modified (eecdbd5).

Edition

⟨1⟩ n¿o?⟨a⟩m-piḷḷai nāyakar

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

(1) The Nāyakar [the Lord Buddha] of Nompiḷḷai (Nampiḷḷai).

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) The Lord of Nampiḷḷai1.

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: “The image was donated by the 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 46, plates V, no. 52.

Notes

  1. 1. Literally: "our son."