Local Government in Ancient India c13.73

c13.73

As may be already understood from the foregoing evidence, the inscriptions give a variety of names to indicate the village assembly. We meet for instance with such names as *perumakkal*, ‘the big children’, *peruṅguri-perumakkal*, ‘the big children of the big assembly’, *paruḍai*, pariṣat (in a Travancore epigraph of 992 a. d.), *mūlaparuḍai sabhā* (no. 85 of 1896), *piramadeyakkilavar*, ‘the old men of the Brahmadeya’, and the like.