Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00381

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

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Edition

1tiru-v-araṅka-nāyakar

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1The Nāyakar (i.e., Buddha) who was the Lord of the Pulpit.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The glorious Lord [of] the stage (araṅkam↓1).

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "By araṅkam the Buddhist form is probably meant. (Cf. caṅkappalakai)." . This appears a far-fetched explanation. It seems that the Buddha is presented here as a rival of Viṣṇu, known as Raṅganātha, "the Lord of the stage," in his famous temple on the Śrīraṅga island at Trichy.

See Tamil Nadu 302.

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 XIV, no. 2. [siglum R1]
Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and Other Buddhist Bronzes in the Chennai Museum. 2nd edition. Chennai: Government of Tamilnadu.
Page 106, pages III, no. 2. [siglum R2]

Notes

↑1. That is, Sanskrit raṅga.