Note 3: Elements of Disruption of the Empire

An inscription dated in the 11th year of Kulottunga III found at Madam registers a political compact (ARE 254 of 1919) between Kudal Arasanarayanan Alappirandan Kadavarayan and Sengeni Virasolan Attimallan alias Kulottungasola Sambuvarayan whereby both swore that they should not do anything that would be detrimental to the interests of either; that the latter should not enter into any alliance with Alappirandan Edirilisola Sambuvarayan; that he should confine himself to certain specified tracts of the country, and if these were transgressed, the mudalis would send up arms and horses and cause him injury; that, if Alappirandan Edirilisola Sambuvarayan inflicted any trouble on Kulottungasola Sambuvarayan, Kadavarayan would support him, that in case Alappirandan Edirilisola Sambuvarayan ran away from his hill (residence) leaving behind him all arms, Kulottungasola Sambuvarayan should have possession of them subject to the condition that he would not shelter or form any alliance with the other; and that, if Kadavarayan allied himself with the relatives of Kulottungasola Sambuva-rayan and with Alappirandan Edirilisola Sambuvarayan against the interests of Kuiot-tungasola Sambuvarayan, he (Kadavarayan) would demean himself to the position of “carrying the sandals of his enemies and of eating the chewed betel leaves thrown out from their mouths.”

There was another such agreement for mutual help between Kovan Rajaraja Nila-gangaraiyan on the one side and Rajaraja Sambuvarayan Jananatha Muvendaraiyar and Ulaguyyakkondasola Kadavarayar on the other pledging themselves to help one another in times of need (Tiruvamattur, ARE 56 of! 922).

There is a reference in the 18th regnal year of Kulottunga III to the renewal of a political compact between Rajarajadevan Ponparappinan Vanakkovaraiyan and Siyan Udaiya Pillai Akalanka Nadalvan (Tiruvanaikkaval: ARE 483 ol 1908). A few more similar compacts are found to have been formed during this period.