Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00382

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

Hand Description:

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Edition

¹naṅkai-piḷḷai gomutraFinal nāyakar gomutraFinal

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

¹The Nāyakar (i.e., Buddha) donated by Naṅkai Piḷḷai.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹[Of] Naṅkai Piḷḷai. [This is] the Lord.

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "The donor’s name is recorded. The donor’s name is appropriately separated from the term Nāyakar denoting unambiguously the donor’s and donee’s names."

Bibliography

Edited in Ramachandran 1954, with a facsimile.

Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Ramachandran 1954 and the facsimile therein.

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