The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c19.39.2

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109 of 1924) dated in the fifteenth year of Māravarman Kulaśēkhara-dēva contains a gift, by the assembly of Aḷagāpuri, of all the taxes due to it by the residents of the streets round the temple for the provision of lamps in the temple. Another record from Mannārkōil in the nineteenth year of Kulaśēkharadēva (No. 408 of 1916) mentions the acquisition by the king’s order (*niyōga*) of private houses for a second *prākāra* to the temple being built according to the Śāstra. A curious record from Tirumalai (Ramnad) in the fifth year of the reign of Jaṭāvarman Kulaśēkhara (No. 33 of 1924) mentions ‘the meeting of the big assembly of the Māhēśvaras of the eighteen districts (மண்டலம்) in the hall called Tirugnānasambandan-tiruveḍuttukkaṭṭi in the temple of Śūradēva-īśvaramuḍaiya-Nāyaṇār at Aḷagaimānagar to show their appreciation of the services rendered by a dēvaraḍiyāḷ to several temples of the locality, such as, setting up of certain images wanting in the temples and the construction of prākāras, by conferring on her family the hereditary honour of sounding the conch and the drum at the time of entry into the temple.’¹ The villagers of Vāyalūr (Chingleput) came to an agreement in the eighth year of Jaṭāvarman Sundara Pāndya (A.D. 1258), by which they released all the lands which belonged to four temples which were probably all situated in Vāyalūr, and relinquished their previous hold on them, whether that was by mortgage or by purchase.