This fragment, which is dated in the fifteenth year of Ko-Parakesarivarman, contains an agreement made by the inhabitants of some village, who had received a certain sum of money from “the large holy stone-temple (i.e., the Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara Temple) at Kachchippeḍu (i.e., Kāñchīpuram).” From the interest of this sum, they pledged themselves to supply ghee for a lamp at the rate of 1 uṛakku per day or 7 nāṛis and 1 uri per mensem.nāṛi is equal to 4 uṛakkus or 2 uris, 30 uṛakkus are exactly equal to 7 nāṛis and 1 uri.nāṛi, which was equal to a rājakesari.Choḷa kings alternately bore the surnames Rājakesarin and Parakesarin,Arch. Survey of S. India, Vol. IV, p. 206. The rule holds good in the case of the two kings Rājarāja-deva and Rājendra-Choḷa-deva, Nos. 10 and 11 of the table on page 112, above.Nāga Alappaḍi.Alappaḍi in No. 84.
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