Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00301

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

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Edition

1putta-Uttama-nāyakar

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1The Lord who was the greatest of the Buddhas.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The ultimate Lord who is the Buddha.

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "Here Śākyamuni Buddha’s relative importance to other previous Buddhas such as Dīpaṅkara, etc., is implied."

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

Ramachandran, T. N. 1954. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and Other Buddhist Bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Madras: Government of Madras.
TBC, plate TBC. [siglum R1]
Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and Other Buddhist Bronzes in the Chennai Museum. 2nd edition. Chennai: Government of Tamilnadu.
Page 108, pages III, no. 1. [siglum R2]