Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00304

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

Hand Description:

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Edition

1cōḻa-perum-paḷḷi Āḻvār

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1The God (Lord Buddha) of the Cōḻa perumpaḷḷi.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The Lord (āḻvār) [of] the Cōḻa Perumpaḷḷi.↓1

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "Evidently the purpose of this inscription is to announce that the votive image of the Buddha belonged to the Buddhist monastery built by the Śailendras and endowed by Rājendra Cōḻa."

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 106, plate III, no. 4. [siglum R2]

Notes

↑1. See the Smaller Leiden Plates (EI 22.35).