The Colas c25.80

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²⁹ *ARE.* 1925 II, 12; and 168b of 1922. Cf. Bhāsa's *Pratimā-nāṭaka* and *EI.* xxi, pp. 4-5.
95. *SII.* iii, 142, ll. 29, 50, 57 and *EI.* xvii, pp. 5-6. Also *SII.* ii, p. 386, text l. 99; *EI.* iv, p. 224, text l. 19; *ARE.* 1920, II 4.
96. The learned editors of the *SII.* have been very cautious in dealing with the numerous and obscure terms they have had to elucidate. The expression ‘Puravu-vari-tiṇik-kaḷattu varippottaga-nāyagam’ occurs in *SII.* ii, 88 and is rendered by Venkayya into: ‘the master of the rent-roll in the department (tiṇaikkaḷam) of taxes (levied from) endowments.’ He explains himself in a note by referring us to an inscription of Adhirājēndra (*SII.* iii, p. 116), in which the proceeds of *dēvadāna* villages made over to a temple are appropriated for the expenses of the temple by the officers of the *puravu-vari-tiṇaik-kaḷam*. It seems to me, however, that like their modern counterparts, the officers of the land-revenue department were entrusted with many functions which, though not connected directly with the collection of revenue, they were in a position to discharge in the best manner and with the greatest economy of effort. I would translate the phrase in *SII.* ii, 88 into: ‘the master of the rent-roll in the department of land-revenue.’
97. ll. 120 ff.
98. cf. Kīḻmugaveṭṭi in Tiruvālangāḍu plates, l. 60.
99. *SII.* iii, p. 139.
100. *SII.* iii, p. 301, n. 1.
101. *SII.* iii, 57.
102. 183 of 1915.
103. 135 of 1926.
104. 2 of 1927.
105. 274 of 1910.
106. 630 of 1916.
107. 497 of 1911.
108. 142 of 1912.
109. 2 of 1927.
110. 539 of 1920; and 502 of 1911. cf. Woolner, *Asoka Text and Glossary*, p. 122, Divākaram II. 34; Periya Purāṇam Śiṟuttoṇḍa, vv. 2 and 3.
111. 274 of 1910.
112. *MAR.* 1917, pp. 42-4.
113. 351 of 1917.
114. 113 of 1930.
115. 182 of 1915. This list is followed by the names of twenty-eight viḍaiyil-adigārigaḷ.
116. 429 of 1916.
117. 433 of 1924, cf. *ante*, p. 357.
118. 180 of 1919. The expression used is ‘Vākūr-pāṭṭam’.
119. *SII.* iii, index, s. v. *Dharmāsana*.
120. Taḍuttāṭkoṇḍa-purāṇam—vv. 51-63. See also *JOR.* vi, pp. 83 ff.
121. The text is very explicit about the record room: Maruṇḍaduteḷiya maṟṟa maṟaiyavaneḻuttāl ōlai-yaraṇ-daru-kāppil vēṟonṟaḷaittuḍan-oppu nōkki.