Local Government in Ancient India c13.136

c13.136

Sometimes the purchasers of the assembly's land would be public bodies and not private individuals, though the object of the purchase was the same charitable one. Thus the temple itself would buy lands on payment to the assembly of the *irai-kāval*. But there were cases where the temple requiring land would be unable to pay the price. In such cases we find the assembly making a free gift to the temple of the land by charging the *irai-kāval* to the public fund. In fact, as we have already seen, the religious benefactions of the assembly were hardly less common than those of private individuals.