Studies in Cola History and Administration c13.s3.2

c13.s3.2

*ll.* 3-6. There being thirty *kuḍumbus* (wards), in (each of these) thirty wards, the people of the ward concerned shall assemble, and shall write down for pot-tickets (*kuḍav-ōlai*) the names of those who (*a*) own more than one-fourth *nilam* of taxable land, (*b*) reside in houses built on their own sites, (*c*) are below sixty and above thirty years of age, (*d*) have a reputation for proficiency in Vēda, *Śāstra* and (general) affairs, (*e*) possess material and spiritual purity, (*f*) have not done *vāriyam* this side of three years and (*g*) are not close relations of the *perumakkaḷ* (members) who have done *vāriyam* and retired.