Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00376.

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⟩ periya nācci⟨2⟩ nāyakar ~

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

(1–2) The Nāyakar [of or gift of or set up by or donated by] Periya Nācci.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) The Lord [of] Periya Nācci.

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: “The votive stūpa is a dedication by the lady Periya Nācci. Nācci means nāyakacci or a lady of eminence. Periya Nācci means the big or senior or elder or venerable lady.”

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 p. 62, plates XXVII, no. 76.

[R2] Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Revised edition. Chennai: Government of Tamilnadu. Page 73, plates VI, no. 76.