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(Five Hundred of the Thousand Directions of the Four (quarters)
Ticai-yirattu-aififiuvar (Five Hundred of the Thousand Directions)2
and Aififih1uvar (Five Kundred) Sometimes they are just referred
to as Aiv4e, Ayyav4e or Ayyappoal. The use of the name
Aiflffiiuvar has led R.C.Majumdar to think that this 'organization'
consisted of five hundred members T.V.!.halingam, on the other
hand, feels that 'their extra-territorial organization was
managed by an executive committee of five hundred members'
A,Appadorai, too, holds a similar view when he states that the
'most important personages were constituted into a board called
the Five Hundred Svmis of Ayyvoe'? L.D.Barnett's opinion is
that this 'corporation' had their central body at AyyIvoe,
which .as the seat of their Board of Directors, consisting of
a council of five hundred members All these opinions are based
1. K.A.Nilakanta Sastri, A T; \ ir
± ±.'
2. Ibid.
3. K.A.Nilakanta Sastri, The C5as, p. 596.
k. M.E.R. for 1919, No.223 of 1918; E.C., II, (Revised ed.),
p. 78 of the text; M.E.R. for 1916, No. 97 of 1915.
5. R.C.}lajumdar, Corporate Life in Ancient India, P. 88.
6. T .V. Mahalingam, . cit., P . 392.
7. A.Appadorai, Economic Conditions in Southern India, II, p. 39k.
8. L.D.Barnett, The Ancient Tamil Township and Village, Unpublished,
quoted in B.A.Saletore's Social and Political Life in the
Viiayanaara Empire, LI, p.'I8 j.i.