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Vellalar divisions are the Tondaimandalam (residents of the Pallava country), the Sōliyan (of the Cōla country), the Pandya (from the ancient Pandyan kingdom) and the Konku (from Konku country). Each of these four great divisions is further divided on a territorial basis.
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of prestige, but for that very reason there were any number of groups who sought to claim
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Shiva and Vishnu which is further insignificantly grouped as
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