Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00383.

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: (4a0c02e), last modified (eecdbd5).

Edition

⟨1⟩ ci(ṅka)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ ciṅka ⬦ R1.

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

(1) [Śākya] Siṅgha (Siṃha)

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) The Lion.

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: “Evidently siṅgha stands for the Buddha Śākyasiṃha.”

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 144, plates III, no. 83.