Tamali Tāpas (also written Tāmali or Tāmali Tāpas) is a famous ascetic mentioned in Jain scriptures.

In very simple words:

• He was a tapasvi (ascetic) known for doing very severe external austerities – lots of fasting and bodily hardship.
• But his inner state (bhāv) was not pure in the right Jain way – he did not have right faith (samyak darshan) and his austerity was more outer effort than true inner spiritual purity.
• Because of this, his tapas did not lead to moksha.

Instead, it led to heavenly birth (deva gati) – a high but still non‑liberated state.

So, Jain ācāryas use Tamali Tāpas as a warning example:

> Only doing hard tapas from the body (dravyatapa) is not enough. > Without right faith, right knowledge and right conduct, even very great austerity cannot give liberation – at best it gives high rebirth.

In Jain traditions

• Śvetāmbara texts like the Bhagavatī Sūtra mention Tāmali as a well‑known tapasvi whose story is used to explain this principle.
• Digambar ācāryas also accept the same basic point:

intense tapas without samyak darshan and without control of passions does not give kevaljñān / moksha; it only gives punya and higher rebirth.

There is no major Digambar–Śvetāmbara disagreement about the lesson from his life. He is remembered mainly as an example that:

• Inner purity (antarik tapa, control of passions, samyaktva)

is more important than just hard physical penance.