Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00303

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

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Edition

1maṇṭai-piḷḷai nāyakar dash

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1The Nāyakar set up by Maṇṭai Piḷḷai.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The Lord [of] Maṇṭai Piḷḷai↓1.

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 XXIV, no. 3. [siglum R1]
Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and Other Buddhist Bronzes in the Chennai Museum. 2nd edition. Chennai: Government of Tamilnadu.
Page 106, plate III, no. 3. [siglum R2]

Notes

↑1. That is, "the boy (piḷḷai) with a begging bowl (maṇṭai)."