The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c19.39.3

c19.39.3

In addition to this, they undertook never again to hold these lands, either as purchasers or as mortgagees, on pain of ‘treason against Śiva’ and ‘treason against king’.² A record from Tirupputtūr (Ramnad) of a Tribhuvanacakravartin Kulaśēkharadēva (No. 101 of 1908) who might have ruled earlier than A.D. 1200 and was perhaps the Kulaśēkhara of the civil war, states that the assembly (மூலபரிஷை.) of Tirupputtūr wished to go to Madura to meet king Kulaśēkhara and accordingly made certain temple lands rent-free on receipt of a specified sum for the expenses of the journey.³ An inscription from Śērmādēvi (No. 695 of 1916) mentions a grant of land to a library (*Sarasvati Bhāndāra*) in a temple in the locality, and records containing endowments for the recitation and study of the Vedas and Purāṇas in temples are frequently met with. A record (No. 557 of 1916) from Pattamadai (near Śērmādēvi, Tinnevelly district) is of more than ordinary interest as it registers a grant to a dancing girl for enacting a drama, not specified, on certain festival days.¹