Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00377

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze, incomplete.

Hand Description:

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Edition

1[...] (tu) nāyakar dash

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1The Nāyakar [i.e., Lord Buddha] of [...].

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The Lord of [...].

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 notes thus: "The image shows heavy encrustation that has eaten into the metal in many places."

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 45, plate VI, no. 77. [siglum R2]