The Colas c25.47.3

c25.47.3

two men found a buffalo grazing amidst their crops in the fields; they belaboured the animal so severely that it died in consequence; they consulted the *bhaṭṭas* and were advised to endow a half-lamp in the neighbouring temple, and did so.¹³³ Another record of the same reign, from Kiḻaiyūr (Tanjore), gives an instance of two persons who were a public nuisance and a source of trouble to Brahmins, *veḷḷāḷas* and the temple; they were tried for rioting (*kalaham*) and incendiarism and together fined 1000 *kāśus*; no one helped them to pay the fine, and their lands were sold to the temple for 1060 *kāśus*, the extra amount of 60 *kāśus* being treated as penalty for default in the payment of the fine. The inscription mentions incidentally a royal order of a general nature that in similar cases of rioting, incendiarism and so on, the amount of the fine may go up to 20,000 *kāśus*.¹³³ In the sixteenth year of Kulōttunga III, a.d. 1194, a case of misappropriation of temple property, *śivadrōha*, is punished by the confiscation of the estate of the offender, the proceeds being handed over to the temple that had suffered by the offence.¹³⁴