sentences:  A Kovilakam was usually endowed with estates and properties (crown lands) sufficient to the maintenance of its constituent members.At the very moment when a member ascends to any dignity/station (stanam), he/she loses his residence in the Kovilakam and is usually brought up and lived apart on the property set apart for his dignity/station (stanam).However there are instances when such members on ascending to a station have preferred to stay back in their Kovilakams of birth.