Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00346

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

Hand Description:

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Edition

1putt-uṭai-y-āṉ perumāḷ nāyakar

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1 The Nāyakar (i.e., Lord), the great God, the Enlightened (Buddha).

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The Lord (nāyakar), the Lord (peruṃāḷ), the Enlightened One (puṭṭi+uṭaiya+āṉ).

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "The record refers to the Enlightened Buddha, who is the Lord (Nāyaka) and the Great God (Perumāḷ)."

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 57, plate V, no. 46. [siglum R2]