Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00350

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

Hand Description:

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Edition

1periya-piḷḷai-nāya¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ār

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1The Nāyaṉār (i.e., Lord Buddha) set up or donated by Periya Piḷḷai.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The Lord [of] Periya Piḷḷai.↓1

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "The dedication of the votive image of the Buddha is by one Periya Piḷḷai."

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 65, plate V, no. 50. [siglum R2]

Notes

↑1. Literally, "the great son."