The Colas c27.11

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the lands in the village. This arrangement was enforced right to the end of our period. A record from Kaḷappāl¹⁸ (Tanjore dt.) dated a.d. 1274 describes the sale, by the executive body of the village assembly, of land belonging to a certain person who had emigrated to the Pāṇḍya country and died there without having paid the dues on his lands for about ten years. That arrears of revenue were allowed to accumulate for so many years gives us incidentally a measure of the difference in the method of collection between now and then.