The Colas c31.28

c31.28

The same characteristic marks the liquid and grain measures used in different places, and numerous kinds of *nāḷi* and *marakkāl* find mention in the inscriptions. From the Tanjore inscriptions it becomes clear that the *Āḍavallān* equal to *Rājakēsari* was adopted as the standard in the accounts of the capital city and perhaps of the empire in the time of Rājarāja I. Possibly, the same measure is referred to as *Arumoḷidēvan* in the reigns of Rājēndra and Rājādhirāja.⁹¹ though the name *Rājakēsari* also continued in use.⁹² The distinction between this standard measure *Rājakēsari* and another called *Vīdiviḍangan* is clearly brought out in a record of the twenty-sixth year of Rājarāja I from Tiruvāmāttūr stating that a surplus was left as a result of measuring paddy by the *Vīdiviḍangan* instead of by the *Rājakēsari*.⁹³ *Kōmaḷam* (Covelong) and *Kacci-ppēḍu-ninṟān* were other measures used in Chingleput.⁹⁴ It would seem, however, that better success attended the effort to standardise liquid and grain measures than in other directions; at any rate, after the reign of Rājarāja I the inscriptions seem to mention fewer varieties of these measures than of land measures or gold weights.