The Colas c28.83

c28.83

47. Some of the other instances known may be briefly mentioned here: Sale by three Veḷḷāḷas of two women and their descendants as *dēvaraḍiyār* at Tiruvakkarai, South Arcot in 1099 (183 of 1904); a *dharmadāna* by a *mahārāya* of an uvacca aḍimai in the Tinnevelly district in 1105 (280 of 1928); the gift of two slaves for service in a *maṭha* in Drākṣārāma in 1113 (354 of 1893); lists of aḍimais belonging to the temple and *maṭha* in Kiḷaiyūr, Tanjore district, dated 1184 (74 and 76 of 1925); the large numbers of *maḍa-aḍimais* bought and given to the *maṭha* in Tiruvālaṅgāḍu by a nobleman in the years 1198 and 1208 (91 and 90 of 1926); the case of a Veḷḷāla and his two daughters who sold themselves to the temple at Tiruppāmburam to escape starvation in 1201 (86 of 1911); and the sale by two accountants of a temple of number of women who were slaves forming part of their ancestral estate—*eṅgaḷukku kramāgatamāy varugiṉṟa aḍiyār* (296 of 1911). Yet other instances are found in 499 of 1904 (Vēdāraṇyam, A.D. 1219); 409 of 1925, a stone mason, his wife and four sons, (Acyutamangalam), A.D. 1219; 223 of 1917, a host of over 100 male and female slaves of the 48\. See also *SII*., ii, Intr. 17-8 for a discussion of the data from the Tanjore inscriptions.