Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00353

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

Hand Description:

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Edition

1Araicar

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1King or The Lord.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The King.

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "It is likely that the inscription refers to the Buddha as Araicar, the Lord."

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 51, plate V, no. 53. [siglum R2]