Studies in Cola History and Administration c10.17

c10.17

There were also groups bound by ties of contiguity and several examples of such groups occur in our inscriptions. Thus the residents of Śaṅkarappāḍi in the north-bazaar (*vaḍakkilaṅgāḍi śaṅkarappāḍiyōm*) acted as trustees for some charitable funds, and elected three persons to a committee for testing the fineness of gold. The *māḍavīdiyār* (residents of the main streets) elected four other members to the same