Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00347

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

Hand Description:

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Edition

¹[1×] (t)ārayar maṭam-uṭaiyāṉ

Apparatus

¹ [1×] (t)ārayar ◇ tārayar R1

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

¹The Lord (Buddha) of the maṭha of the Tarayar (i.e., Theriyas or Sthaviras or the Elders)

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹The Lord [of] the matḥa of ... .

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "It is not clear if this inscription refers to the image itself in which case it would serve as its label meaning the "Lord," i.e., Buddha, of i.e., worshipped in, the maṭha or monastery of the Theras, the Elders. Or the Lord of the maṭha may merely mean the head of the maṭha of Theras, any spiritual head or guide. The Buddha was more probably meant (cf. inscription 43)."

Bibliography

Edited in Ramachandran 1954, with a facsimile.

Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Ramachandran 1954 and the facsimile therein.

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