The Colas c27.41

c27.41

The *ūr* of Tirukkāccūr (Chingleput district) suffered from a failure of harvest, and finding it difficult to pay the taxes, they resorted to raising a loan from a nobleman in the neighbourhood; they did not repay the sum, perhaps they could not, but allowed him to bring under cultivation some of the waste land belonging to the village, and then, in lieu of the interest on the loan they undertook to pay the taxes on the land newly brought under the plough.⁸⁶ A similar instance of crop-failure due to scarcity of water in a village in the Tanjore district is met by a reduction of the area under wet crop from A.D. 1160, the local temple being required to convert some land into a betel garden so as to relieve the pressure on the water-resources of the village;⁸⁷ the temple also advanced some money, and got the land in question declared a *kāśu-koḷḷā-iraiyili*.