# Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai, Gomuktīśvara, label

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai10141

Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai10141.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-10-18 14:25 (53e5dee), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10
(f06f6c9)

## Summary

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

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## 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⟩ ⟨This[1] 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.

[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.