# Ambasamudram, Tirumūlanātha temple, no king, no year

Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPandya00508

Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPandya00508.xml

Language: Tamil [Vaṭṭeḻuttu]

Commit: 2026-10-01 13:11 (562e33f), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
(e2e7d8a)

## Summary

Door jamb reused as a threshold for the entrance of the shrine
sheltering Viṣṇu. Too fragmentary to be able to prepare a meaningful
edition. Unnoticed and unpublished. No regnal year of king but script
pertaining to the 9th or 10th century.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ (nā/vā/pā)kkā(ṇa) ⟨2⟩ maka(ṉ/ṇ) (U/ma/pa) ⟨3⟩ (pa/va)naṇamma ⟨4⟩
[1+] ḻākku ⟨5⟩ [2+] ṭṭā ⟨6⟩ [2+] (tuna) ⟨7⟩ [4+] ⟨8⟩ [5+] ⟨9⟩ (nārāyaṇa)
[1+] ⟨10⟩ [3+]

## Commentary

There is a much later graffitti at the bottom.

## Bibliography

Edited in Gillet (forthcoming “Ambasamudram in the 9th and 10th
centuries: a Holy Teaching Centre of the Pāṇḍya Kingdom”, no. 10 and
fig. 22), based on autopsy and photographs.

This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.