Studies in Cola History and Administration c12.59

c12.59

‘B’ *l. 4*: *mūruṭṭin ippuṛam vāriyanjeydilattārai*: This phrase must be carefully noted as excluding from committees all persons who had served on them within the three years preceding the election simply by reason of such service. According to Venkayya this three year rule unduly limited the field of choice and was, as he mistakenly thought, dropped when, in A. D. 920-21 (the date of this record), “the prohibition was restricted only to defaulting committee members and their relatives.” As a matter of fact, by the arrangement of clauses in this record, not to have served on any of the committees in the three years preceding the year to which the particular election related, was as much one of the qualifications requisite for valid candidature as the possession of property, learning and character.