The Colas c28.19.2

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he had acquired these women six years earlier as *Kuḷḷāḷ* (?) Another record of the reign of Rājarāja I from Tiruvaḍandai (Chingleput), dated in the seventeenth regnal year, a.d. 1002, states that twelve families of fishermen (*paṭṭinavar*) were dedicated to the temple of Śrī Varāha Dēva at the instance of two officials serving in the locality as *nāḍu-kaṇkāṭci* and *nāḍu-vagai*; the families of the twelve persons named had each to pay, out of their income from weaving and fishing, ¾ *kaḷañju* of gold, and to assist in the celebration of two annual festivals in the temple, one of them being of seven days' duration and ending with the day of Śadaiyam in the month of Āvaṇi, the day of the king's nativity. The *sabhā* and the *ūr* of Tiruvaḍandai undertook to hold them and their decendants strictly to their obligations.⁴¹ The terms of this dedication are on the whole liberal and do not constitute slavery; they even included some privileges of the dedicated families such as the receipt of *prasādam* (food-offering) on the festival days. But the element of compulsion, the hereditary nature of the dedication, the part played by two officials of the state and the undertaking of the *sabhā* and *ūr* to enforce the terms, prove that the dozen families of *paṭṭinavar* would not have readily accepted the arrangements of their own choice. Kulōttunga I ordered in A.D.