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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
3 karyañe(ñ-che)yyuma perumakkalē sabhaiyōmai-kkoṇḍu tirvär ägavum [*] tirkka-māṭṭādaga sabbaiyömaiyé kondu dapdangal-iruttu-kkuḍuppür-agavum[*] sabhaiyil"]-ninga sabha-marram pēśi-ppa
4 pitta tani-parsharaiyam sabhaiyom papiyal seyda väriya-pperumakkalaiyum adikki). mrppärsiyam madhyasthargalsiyum pidi-käppärgalaiyum ullitta sabhai-ppani-se
5 ydar epperppaṭṭäraiyun-dandam-ittans ullana dandam-itta av[v-av-indugal grümakiryan-cheyyam perumakkaley sabhaiyömai-kkondu tirvär-ägavu
6 in [*] tīrv-uradana sabhaiyōmaiye kondu dandam iruttu kuḍuppār-agavum [*] i-pparisu seyyärgil dandam-itta a[v]v-av-kodugal grama
124-ñ-cheydu-kāṇan-daṇḍam-iḍa-pperuvär-āgavum
7 käryyañ=che[y]darai mey-vēru-vagai [*] i-ddandappaṭṭu ivv-a
8 nyāyam
Uttaramēru-ssa(cha)tu[r]vvedimangalattu
vārāmai-ttirttu-kkuḍuppōmānōm
[VOL. XXIV.
sabhaiyōm [*] idu sabhai[yar]
9 paņikka eludinën madhyasthan Sivadasan Mangaladityanēṇ [*]
TRANSLATION.
Hail! Prosperity! In the 25th year of (the reign of) Kannaradēva, who took Kachchi (Conjeevaram) and Tañjai (Tanjore), we, (the members of the) Perunkuri-Mahasabha, having assembled during day-time, in the terri (i.e., raised platform) in front of the big hall of our village, made the following vyavastha (regulation), agreeing among ourselves :
The great men conducting the business of the village for each year shall alone collect, through us (i.e., the Perunkuri-Mahasabha), the fines that have been paid out of the fines imposed on the guilty by us (i.e., the members of) the Mahasabha. Such fines as are not realised, they (i.e., the greatmen conducting the business of the village for the year) shall get only through us (ie., the Perunkuri-Mahasabha) and pay.
Further, the fines that have been paid by every kind of persons engaged in carrying out the transactions of the Sabha,-including individual members that are present in the assembly (Sabha), partaking in the assembly-discussions (sabhä-mäṛram) and giving their opinions; the great men of the Committees (Variya-pperumakkal) that have been formed by an order of us (comprising) the Sabha; those that stand at our feet (i.e., the servants of the assembly), the madhyasthas and those that watch our village, the great men conducting the business of the village of the year in which (these) fines have been levied, shall collect them, through us (i.e., the assembly of) the Sabha: such fines as have not been realised (in these cases also), they (i.e., the great men conducting the annual business of the village) shall get only through us and pay.
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Failing to act in this wise, the great men conducting the business of the village for the year in which the fines are levied shall individually be liable to a penalty of 124 current kāṇam. Imposing this penalty (on them), we, the Sabha of Uttaramēru-chaturvedimangalam, shall see that the miscarriage does not recur.
Being ordered by the members of the assembly, I, the madhyastha Sivadasan Mangaladityan, wrote this (vyavasthā).
