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.

Languages: Sanskrit (san), Tamil (tam).

Version: 2025-09-04 18:37 (f6dda46), last modified 2025-09-04 17:42 (933a7ab).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī tiru-naṟai-

⟨2⟩ yūr-nāṭṭu ciṟṟāṭi-y-u-

⟨3⟩ ṭaiyāṉ tāmaṉ A-

⟨4⟩ malaṉ ⁋ namaś śivāya

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

⟨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 1924-1925 (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 1924-1925. 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 1924-1925, followed by Kaimal 1999, this appears not to be an alias of Tāmaṉ Amalaṉ, but a concluding blessing.

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