sentences:  Donation of a thousand cows are mentioned though the actual number may have been fewer indicating that ownership of cows may have been as important as cultivable land and that there may have existed a social hierarchy based on this.References to shepherds are uncommon though one inscription calls them "Kurimbadere" and the hamlets where they lived "Kuripatti".Inscriptions mention cattle raids attesting to the importance of the pastoral economy, destructive raids, assaults on women ("pendir-udeyulcal"), abduction of women by "bedas" (hunter tribes), a result of the existing militarism of the age.