[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) › c19.25.5 # The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c19.25.5 The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c19.25.5 - **Language:** English ### [c19.25.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.25.5) but the king's judgment is unknown as the end of the inscription (No. 125 of 1908) is lost.¹ It seems to have been the rule that all offences were in the first instance dealt with by the village officers and the village assembly of the locality, and that only when these authorities proved unequal to the task, any matter was submitted to the king's officers, or, in an extreme case, to the king himself. An inscription from Pudukkottah (No. 372 of 1906) of about the middle of the thirteenth century A.D. refers to a meeting of the inhabitants of districts, cities and villages in Kōnāḍu. The \*pūjāris\* of the temple of Tirunalakkuṇramuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār had made away with the cash as well as the jewels of the temple. One of them confessed to having taken a portion of the lost cash and shared it with a carpenter. The other \*pūjāris\* denied all knowledge of the lost property, but were implicated by the former. The lying \*pūjāris\* were orderd to be taken to the court (\*dharmāsana\*) where they were required to handle a (red-hot) ploughshare. The hands of all of them were burnt, and then they confessed their guilt. They were all ordered to be dealt with as sinners against the god Śiva (\*Śivadrōhins\*).² The references in this record to the \*dharmāsana\*—perhaps the king's court—and the ordeal of the ploughshare must be noted. - [Previous: c19.25.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.25.4) - [Next: c19.25.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.25.6) - [Up: c19.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.25) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.25.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c19.25.5) · Pramāṇa