The Colas c12.43
The Cōḷas c12.43
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c12.43
Besides being the head of the government and leader in war, the king also held the first rank in social life. He patronised poetry and the arts, and kept an open house. War and women were, in fact, the universal preoccupations of the leisured classes, besides wine and song. The king and his *ēnādis* with their retinues must have formed a gay boisterous crew at the top of society with a huge capacity for enjoying the simple pleasures of life such as eating and drinking. No occasion was lost for hold-