Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00349

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

Hand Description:

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Edition

¹Āttūṟ cāriputtira-nāyakar colon+dash

Apparatus

¹ Āttūṟ ◇ Āttūr R1

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

¹The Nāyakar [Lord] Cāriputtira of Āttūr.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹The Lord of Cāriputtiraṉ of Āttūr.

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "The Lord of God, i.e., the image, was a gift of Cāriputtira of Āttūr. The inscription is interesting as it shows that the donor was named after Śāriputra, the youngest and cleverest of the Buddha’s disciples, who discomfited Kuṇḍalakeśin and of whom little is known beyond the fact that a stūpa at Sāñcī was erected over a relic attributed to him. The purport of the inscription is that the image is a votive offering made of the Nāyakar (Buddha) by Śāriputra, a native of Āttūr, the location of which is not known."

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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