Hindu Administrative Institutions c12.s4.30

c12.s4.30

That the tendency to corporate organization extended in course of time is manifest from the Udayendiram plates of Nandivarman Pallavamalla¹ and from an inscription of Jaṭāvarman Sundarapāṇḍya. It was in the direction of a union of more than two villages. But it was purely an internal arrangement enunciated by the respective village assemblies. The following endorsements dated the twenty-sixth year of Parāntaka, the Great, make this point clear; ‘We members of the assembly of Kāñchivāyil and we the members of the assembly of Udaychandira Mangalam have agreed as follows:—We the inhabitants of these two villages having joined and having become one, can prosper as one village from this date.’