Studies in Cola History and Administration c12.39

c12.39

The duties of the *pañcavāra* committee were perhaps connected with its assessment and collection. The discovery of the real nature of ‘*pañcavāra*’ antiquates Venkayya’s suggestion * that originally every village had only five committees, that it was the duty of the ‘*pañcavāra-vāriyam*’ to supervise their work, and that the name was kept on even after the number of committees to be supervised became more than five.