Studies in Cola History and Administration c11.s1.80

c11.s1.80

Year 15. (*c.* A. D. 1133) The *Mahāsabhā* executed a sale-deed-in-discharge-of-debt (*iraṇa-krayāvaṇa-kkai-yeḻuttu*) in favour of the Ēkambam-uḍaiyār temple. The *Sabhā* had obtained a loan of the temple in year 13, and by the month of *kārttigai* in the fifteenth year, the debt including interest amounted to 230½ *kāśu*. This sum was demanded by the temple authorities including the *Mahēśvaras* and accountants, and as the *Sabhā* was unable to pay down the money, it met the claims of the temple by transferring to it some land which, with the capitalised value of the minor dues on it that were remitted, amounted to the sum of the debt due to the temple. The *Sabhā* was declared to be free, after the date of this transaction, from all dues to the temple other than 500 measures of ghee on the day of Tiruvādirai in the month of Mārgali and the transfer of Veṇṇaikkūṭṭanallūr (the land sold in lieu of the payment of the debt); and all other claims recorded on copper, stone and palm-leaf were declared cancelled. Veṇṇaikkūṭṭanallūr was thenceforth to be called by the Śiva-nāme Tiruvēkambanallūr, and was to be so entered in the land-register (*pottakam*) of the village and tax-account (*vari*).