The Colas c25.48

c25.48

In the sixth year of Rājarāja II the authorities of the temple of Paśupatīśvara in Pandanallūr (Tanjore Dt.)—the officiating priests called here *pati pāda mūla paṭṭuḍaiya pañcācāryas*, the *dēvakanmis*, *māhēśvaras* and *śrīkaraṇam śeyvār*—were authorised by a separate royal order to punish thieving *Śivabrāhmaṇas*, defaulting tenants and others. This was perhaps a delegation of authority by government to meet a special exigency. In 1225 in the reign of Rājarāja III two inscriptions from Tirunāgeśvaram (Tanjore Dt.) record the case of two brothers and another who held the accountancy right in several temples and embezzled much temple property, took gods' clothes for their own use, and misappropriated for their own constructions bricks belonging to the temple; the temple authorities lodged a complaint to a high royal official, Piḷḷai Yādavarāya, and the king was himself camping in Jayangoṇḍaśōḻa-caturvēdimangalam at the time; on enquiry the accountants were convicted, and all their lands confiscated and the sale proceeds, 40,000 *kāśus*, credited to the temple treasury and the accountancy-right sold to another for 3,000 *kāśus*.