The Colas c29.11

c29.11

Another conspicuous instance of the conversion of a *brahmadēya* into *veḷḷān-vagai* is recorded in the eleventh year of Kulōttunga I (1081). The record bears close resemblance in its formalistic style to the Tiruvālangāḍu plates, and like them contains many revenue and administrative terms which call for study. The formalities connected with the change in tenure take many years—the transaction starting in the eleventh year of Rājēndra II and coming to an end only under Kulōttunga. The substantive order was addressed by Vīrarājēndra to the *nāṭṭār*, *brahmadēyakkiḷavar*, the *ūrgaḷilār*, of *dēvadāna*, *paḷḷiccanda*, *śālābhōga* and other such charity villages, and the *nagarangaḷilār*. The lands so converted were constituted into a new village under the name Rājēndra-nallūr, and it was required to pay a fixed tax (*ninṟirai*) of 2000 *kalam* of paddy every year to the temple of Tiruttāṭakai-Īśvaram, built by Nakkan Taraṇi or Panandāḷ. The new arrangement took effect from the eleventh year of Kulōttunga I. In the third regnal year of Kulōttunga II the village of Aviyanur in S. Arcot was converted from *nāṭṭu-brahmadēya* into a tax free *tirunāmattukkāṇi*.