Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00383

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

Hand Description:

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Edition

1ci(ṅka)

Apparatus

1 ciṅka ◇ R1

Translation by Ramachandran 1954

1[Śākya] Siṅgha (Siṃha)

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1The Lion.

Commentary

Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: "Evidently siṅgha stands for the Buddha Śākyasiṃha."

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 144, plate III, no. 83. [siglum R2]