The Colas c26.13

c26.13

Sometimes one village was organised as two *ūr*-assemblies for similar reasons. About A.D. 1227, the village of Śāttamaṅgalam had two assemblies, one of them made up of the residents of the Hindu *dēvadāna* part of the village, and the other of persons in the Jaina *paḷḷiccandam*; both assemblies were called *ūr* and they co-operated in setting apart some of the village land for a tank and flower-garden, and making the land tax-free, by themselves undertaking to pay the taxes and dues thereon.³⁸ Similarly we find the constitution of a double-*ūr* in two other villages, Kumara-maṅgalam and Amaṇkuḍi in Urattūr-kūṟṟam in the modern ‘Pudukkottah State’, about A.D. 1245.³⁹