[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929) › c19.20.2 # The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c19.20.2 The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c19.20.2 - **Language:** English ### [c19.20.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.20.2) 380 of 1914), of probably the same king, states that a dispute between the authorities of a temple and an individual as regards the ownership of a stream was settled by providing that, ‘after irrigating a certain specified field, one half of the income from fishing in the river should be made over to the temple authorities, while the other half was to be retained by the other party to the dispute.’¹ Unless an inscription in the tenth year of Jaṭāvarman Parākrama Pāṇdya (fourteenth century A.D.) from Tirumalai (Ramnad) has been grossly misunderstood, it may be taken to record a very interesting transaction.² Two villages and a tank irrigating lands in them are taken up by a temple from government after paying arrears of taxes due to it from a defaulting cultivator; the temple authorities had evidently miscalculated their capacity to use the lands and underrated the difficulties in the way of cultivating them properly and apparently were unable to pay their dues to the state. Then, in the presence of the king, they sold the tanks and the lands to two brothers for a sum of money with which they set up the images of Gaṇapati and Māṇikkavāśagar, and it was agreed that after that, the dues which the brothers had to pay on the lands they had bought, and which were fixed in detail, were to be used ‘for providing for the sacred bath and offerings and worship of the images newly set up.’ It is not clear if the newly fixed dues were less onerous than the old ones. Perhaps they were. - [Previous: c19.20.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.20.1) - [Next: c19.20.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.20.3) - [Up: c19.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.20) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.20.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.20.2) · Pramāṇa