Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai, Gomuktīśvara, label

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai10001.

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

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-TN-epigraphy).

Version: (4c349d4), last modified (82caab2).

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. 1. That is, the man worshipping a liṅga represented in the sculpture, which is immediately to the left of the inscription.
  2. 2. Pace ARIE 1924-1925, followed by Kaimal 1999, this appears not to be an alias of Tāmaṉ Amalaṉ, but a concluding blessing.