Studies in Cola History and Administration c12.89

c12.89

B. l. 17: *uḍan irundu ippariśu śeyvikka*: Venkayya translates ‘sat with (us) and thus caused (this settlement) to be made’, and I accept this translation as correct. There is nothing else in l. 17 bearing on the part played by the royal official. I am unable to follow Venkayya’s statements: “The wording in l. 17 makes it likely that the settlement was actually made by Sōmāśiperumāṇ and the village assembly very probably agreed to carry it out”; and more emphatically still, “the later settlement appears to have been actually drawn up by the king’s officer and formally accepted by the assembly.” * I have already stated that the phrase ‘uḍan irundu seyvikka means practically the same thing as ‘uḍan irukka’ of ‘A’ in the same context.