Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00352

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

Hand Description:

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Edition

1n¿o?⟨a⟩m-piḷḷai nāyakar

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1The Nāyakar [the Lord Buddha] of Nompiḷḷai (Nampiḷḷai).

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The Lord of Nampiḷḷai↓1.

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "The image was donated by the Nampiḷḷai."

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 46, plate V, no. 52. [siglum R2]

Notes

↑1. Literally: "our son."