Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c10.7

c10.7

The policy of provincial governors in the twelfth century, under the Kalachuryas, was supervised by *karaṇams* or imperial censors, appointed no doubt independently by the supreme government, to whom, it is said, they were like the five senses. They were *dharmmādhyakshangal* and *rājādhyakshangal* (Sk 123), or scrutineers of morality and of judicial or political affairs. They were five in number (Sk 102), and their office, as here described, was to see that the Lakshmī or lady—the State—was free from adultery, which may be interpreted as meaning, that their duty was to check any disloyalty to the throne, and to maintain the purity of justice or morals and of charitable endowments.