The Colas c24.8

c24.8

Inscriptions from the Tanjore district mention that there were great disorders in the fifth year of the reign resulting in loss of security and damage to property.¹⁴ These disorders are only vaguely characterised as *duritaṅgaḷ* (troubles) and *kṣōbham* (agitation), and there is no more indication of their exact nature. It is clear from the inscriptions, however, that they led to the temporary desertion of one temple, its images and movable property being carried elsewhere for safety, and the permanent destruction of the records and title-deeds of two villages which had subsequently to improvise fresh records after inquiry. These disturbances might have been purely local; at any rate there is no clear evidence of their being due to war or foreign invasion.¹⁵