South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c8.s1.27

c8.s1.27

A record of his fourteenth year, A.D. 1230 (at Valivalam near Tiruvālūr, Tanjore District) states that at the *dēvadāna* village of Kuḷottungaśōḷanallūr the lands of certain traitors (*rājadrohins*) were put up for sale by public auction (*Rājarāja-peruvilai*) and were sold for 33,000 *kāśu*.³ This may be held to indicate weakening of the central authority, the civil disorder being perhaps the result of hostile movement by enemies of the empire.