Studies in Cola History and Administration c12.85

c12.85

‘B’ *l. 15*: *kaṇakku-pperuṅguri-pperumakkaḷ*: This seems to be a reference to an aspect of the administration of Uttaramerūr of which we do not hear anything else in the two records before us. Venkayya translates the sentence containing this phrase as follows: “No accountant shall be appointed to that office again before he submits his accounts (for the period during which he was in office) to the great men of the big committee and (is declared) to have been honest." His note that *kaṇakku* is unnecessarily repeated after *kūḍa* in l. 15 shows that he made this translation by taking the *kaṇakku* in the phrase extracted above as the object of ‘*kāṭṭi*’, and not as an integral part of the compound word in which it occurs. He also thought evidently that the *peruṅguṟi-pperumakkaḷ* (the great men of the big committee) were the authority to whom the accounts had to be submitted for audit. All this seems unsatisfactory if we examine the text closely.