The Colas c28.10.2

c28.10.2

Of this sum, 5 *kalañjus* were spent in the third year on renovation and reconsecration of the temple, and the balance for the purchase of some lands and for making them tax free for the upkeep of the temple. The inscription giving this decision regarding remission of taxes was recorded in the eleventh year of Kulōttunga I, and, for some unknown reason, at Śrīrangam.21a There is a curious inscription of the reign of Kulōttunga III which gives the earliest account so far known of the beliefs of the *Iḍangai* classes regarding their origin.²² They claimed to have been created from the *agnikuṇḍa* (fire-pit) for the protection of the sacrifice of Kaśyapa, and to have settled in the Cōḷa country in the time of the emperor Arindama; this emperor imported a large colony of holy Brahmins from Antarvēdi, and the *Iḍangai* classes accompanied these Brahmin colonists as the bearers of their slippers and their umbrellas. They got some lands in five villages, all of them now in the Trichinopoly district, and had long lost the memory of their origin when they recovered it about A.D. 1128. They then entered into a compact among themselves to the effect that they should thenceforth behave like sons of the same parents. 'If anything derogatory happens to the *Iḍangai* class, we will jointly assert our rights till we establish them.