Local Government in Ancient India c9.130

c9.130

More interesting information is given by another series of inscriptions at Tirukkovalur (ibid., pp. 138–47). The first, dated in the seventeenth year of Vijaya-Nandivikrama [i.e. of the Gaṅga-Pallava king, Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman (assigned to the ninth century A. D.)], records the gift for one perpetual lamp to the god Perumal (usually Viṣṇu but here Śiva) of the Tiruvīraṭṭānam temple in a village of Malāḍu of ‘15 *kalañju* of gold which was equal in fineness to the old *kāśu* (designation of some gold coin)’ to a guild which entered into the following agreement:—