The Colas c25.20

c25.20

The army seems to have been spread over the country in the form of local garrisons and in cantonments called *kaḍagams*. Expressions like the *villigaḷ* (bowmen) of Eṉanallūr-kaḍagam,³⁸ the troops quartered in Tiruviḍaimarudil,³⁹ Ivvūrp-paḍait-talaivan (the Captain of the troops in this town)⁴⁰ are clear indications of the practice mentioned. After his southern campaigns, Kulōttunga I stationed an army in Kōṭṭāṟu, and established military colonies along the road from the Cōḷa country to that place.⁴¹ A section of the army was posted in Maḍavilāgam in South Arcot in the forty-sixth year of the same king.⁴²