The Colas c27.22.2

c27.22.2

The *kōl-nirai-kūli* and *kāl-aḷavukūli* of Kāñcīpuram which were assigned as income to the temple of Ūragam are explained in the Sanskrit portion of the Museum plates as tolls on articles measured by weight and by capacity.⁴⁸ That this was a very small toll is seen from the rate of half-*nāḷi* per *kalam* recorded in an inscription from Tiruvāmāttur of the time of Rājarāja I;⁴⁹ in this place this *kūli* was given to the *paḷḷis* of the village who measured the paddy due to the temple from its tenants till about A.D. 1010, when as a result of an enquiry into the affairs of the temple, this *kūli* was transferred to the *uvaccar* as remuneration for their services in the temple, including the cost of clothes to be supplied to a *māṇi* (a *brahmacārin*) who officiated at the *śrī-bali* ceremony. Examples of general taxes falling upon the residents of Tiruvallam in the fourth year of Rājēndra I are stated to be: the price of water from wells and tanks and the gold of joyous persons. The latter (*ugappār pon*) seems to be a small payment made by householders on auspicious occasions like marriages.⁵⁰ In the sixth year of Rājēndra I, the Tiruvālangāḍu plates record a formidable list of *parihāras* made over to the temple; all these *parihāras*,—the list is a long one and yet said to be not exhaustive,⁵¹—were thenceforth to be collected by the temple and not by the king. Some years later, in A.D.