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Brahmadeya (Sanskrit for "given to Brahmana") was tax free land gift,
either in the form of
single plot or
whole villages,
donated to
Brahmanas in the...
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granted to a
junior relative Book of Fees, a
scholarly collection of
fiefs Brahmadeya, a
royal fief
given to a
Brahmin for
service to an
Indian king. Enfeoffment...
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Maratha king
Shahuji I
endowed Thiruvisanallur to forty-six
Brahmins as a
brahmadeya in the year 1695.
Following this endowment, the name of the
village was...
- ones (called ūrs). This
process appears to have
initially begun with
brahmadeya villages, i.e.
villages given as tax-free
grants to Brahmins, in the 7th...
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important distinction is made
between types of landholdings:
Brahmadeya (individual) and non-
Brahmadeya (collective) and this is seen in
inscriptions as early...
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Mayurasharma performed many
horse sacrifices and
granted 144
villages (known as
brahmadeyas) to
Brahmins of Talagunda. With an
effort to
rejuvenate the
ancient Brahminic...
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administration and the fact that
majority of the
records from this
phase were
brahmadeya grants (grants to
Brahmin temples). In the
second phase (725–1000), lithic...
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centuries CE).
Being wandering monastics, they were not
settled in the
brahmadeyas or
settlement areas for Brahmins.
There existed tax free bhiksha-bogams...
- of
Dhandeeswaram are
thought to
correspond to the references). In such
Brahmadeya villages or Agarams, the
lands were held by the
village in
common on a...
- [citation needed] Grants: The king
occasionally gave
Brahmanas grants (
brahmadeya),
which consisted generally of villages,
water resources,
wastelands etc...
