The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c19.25.4

c19.25.4

When, some time later, the two prisoners along with some others were being taken to the king's presence, ‘the three other Brahmin brothers who were still at large and who, in the meantime, had collected together a number of people, attacked and killed the party which was leading the captive brothers to the king, liberated them and escaped. The news of this action of the rebels having reached the king, he issued the stringent orders that they be captured wherever found and punished according to the rules applicable to the lower classes, that their houses and other hereditary property be sold to temples and other charitable institutions, that the money thus realized be credited to the treasury in payment of the fine imposed on them and that the balance, if any, be presented to the temples as a permanent charity in the name of the criminals.’ We do not know how the offenders fared after their outlawry by the king, but we learn that the order regarding the sale of their properties was literally fulfilled. These occurrences belong to the reign of a Jaṭāvarman Sundara Pāṇdya who was perhaps the famous ruler of that name who came to the throne in A.D. 1251 or some later monarch. We have an instance of gross mismanagement on the part of a temple manager coupled with misconduct with ‘a Brahmin widow from a foreign country’; complaints against the manager's conduct were made by the assembly of Tirupputtur (Ramnad district) about 1291 A.D. to the ruling king Māravarman Kulaśēkhara;