The Colas c17.37.2

c17.37.2

He had for instance officers or nobles of the *perundaram*, like the Cōḷa monarchs and princes themselves.⁹¹ This chieftain built a temple of Tiruttōṟṟam-uḍaiyār in Mēlappaḻuvūr,⁹² and adopted the ancient standard prevailing at Nandipuram for regulating taxation in Paḻuvūr.⁹³ The latest records mentioning him seem to be dated in the fifteenth year of Rājarāja.⁹⁴ Madhurāntakan Gaṇḍarādittan, apparently a son of Madhurāntaka Uttama Cōḷa,⁹⁵ served Rājarāja as an important official in the department of temple-affairs, so to say. We see him conducting enquiries into the affairs of temples in various parts of the country, punishing defaulters⁹⁶ and making proper arrangements for the prevention of neglect in subsequent years. He has been wrongly identified with Gaṇḍarādittar, the author of the *Tiruviśaippā*, which was in reality composed by his grandfather.⁹⁷ In the district of North Arcot there were the Iḷāḍarāya (Lāṭa) chieftains who had apparently been ruling the region round Pañcapāṇḍavamalai continuously from the days of Parāntaka I; in the eighth year of Rājarāja, Uḍaiyār Vīraśōḷar, son of Uḍaiyār Iḷāḍarājar Pugaḻvippavargaṇḍan, remitted, at the request of his queen, some taxes in favour of a Jain temple.⁹⁸ The regal titles employed in the inscriptions of these chieftains are perhaps an indication of the high favour in which they stood with their Cōḷa overlords.