Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai, Gomuktīśvara, label

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Label inscription to the sculpture, which is immediately to the left of the inscription and represents a man worshipping a liṅga.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai10141.

File path: DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai10141.xml.

Version: 2026-08-21 18:06 (41737c1), last modified 2026-07-17 15:32 (10ee458).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī tiru-naṟai-

⟨2⟩ yūr-nāṭṭu ciṟṟāṭi-y-u-

⟨3⟩ ṭaiyāṉ tāmaṉ A-

⟨4⟩ malaṉ ↝ namaś śivāya

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨1–4⟩ ⟨This¹ is⟩ Tāmaṉ Amalaṉ, lord of Ciṟṟāṭi in Tirunaṟaiyūrnāṭu.

⟨4⟩ Homage to Śiva.²

Commentary

The labelled portrait is portrait 8 in Kaimal 1999 (p. 128 and fig. 9).

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1924–25 (ARIE/1924-1925/B/1925/141).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on photos (EFEO, 2006; E. Francis, 2024) and autopsy (2024).

ASI transcript and estampage, if any, yet to be consulted.

Secondary

ARIE 1924–25. Annual report on South-Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1925. Edited by G. Venkoba Rao. Calcutta: Government Press, 1926. Page 28, appendix B/1925, item 141.

Kaimal, Padma. 1999. “The problem of portraiture in South India, circa 870-970 A.D.” Artibus Asiae 59, pp. 59–133.

Notes

1. That is, the man worshipping a liṅga represented in the sculpture, which is immediately to the left of the inscription.
2. Pace ARIE 1924–25, followed by Kaimal 1999, this appears not to be an alias of Tāmaṉ Amalaṉ, but a concluding blessing.

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