Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00319

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

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Edition

1caṅkāṇṭāḷ nāyakar

Apparatus

1 caṅkāṇṭāḷ ◇ caṅkāṇṭāṉ R1

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1The Nāyakar (Buddha) donated by Caṅkāṇṭāṉ.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The Lord [of] Caṅkāṇṭāḷ.↓1

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "The donor’s name is given here. Or it may mean the Buddha, the Lord of all treasures (including śaṅkha)." If the correct reading is caṅkāṇṭāḷ (a feminine form) and not caṅkāṇṭāṉ, the interpretation as a designation of the Buddha seems precluded.

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 98, plate III, no. 19. [siglum R2]

Notes

↑1. "She who governs / rules over the conch."