Studies in Cola History and Administration c8.17

c8.17

Then we have the *Nāṭṭār*, people of a *nāḍu*, which, as is well-known, was an administrative division larger than the village but smaller than the *maṇḍalam*. There is a clear reference to the assembly of the Tiruvalundūr *nāḍu* through whom a whole village was granted to a temple by the king.¶