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Brahmadeya (Sanskrit for "given to Brahmana") was tax free land gift either in form of single plot or whole villages donated to Brahmanas in the early...

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...

important distinction is made between types of landholdings: Brahmadeya (individual) and non-Brahmadeya (collective) and this is seen in inscriptions as early...

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...

Mayurasharma performed many horse sacrifices and granted 144 villages (known as brahmadeyas) to Brahmins of Talagunda. With an effort to rejuvenate the ancient Brahminic...

Records in his thirty first year, a sale of land by the assembly of the brahmadeya villages of Sundarasola-chatuvedimangalam and Vanavanmahadevi-chaturvedimangalm...

[citation needed] Grants: The king occasionally gave Brahmanas grants (brahmadeya), which consisted generally of villages, water resources, wastelands etc...

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...

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...

Mamangam festival. Vairankode, situated in Malappuram district, was a brahmadeya village under the Azhvanchery Thamprakkal. Vairankode Azhvanchery, which...

centuries CE). Being wandering monastics, they were not settled in the brahmadeyas or settlement areas for Brahmins. There existed tax free bhiksha-bogams...

the Brahmadeya (Brahmin village) when a Chola viceroy Lankeswaran was ruling. 'Hail prosperity. We the members of the great assembly of the brahmadeya called...

inscription provides the earliest extant reference to the establishment of a Brahmadeya (land grant to a brahmana) in the Tamil-speaking region. It records Nedunjadaiyan's...

Shitala Amman temple. Serugudi was established by Kulothunga Chola I as a brahmadeya under the name "Solakulavalli chaturvedimangalam" at the behest of his...

temples in North Kerala. Vairankode, located in Malappuram district, was a brahmadeya village under the rule of the Azhvanchery Thamprakkal. The Vairankode...

infrastructure, and other agro-social grievances. Jagir Dhandhaniya Sasan Brahmadeya For centuries, it was an established principle that no Kshatriya could...

welcomed with gifts of land and housing. Special places of learning called brahmadeya were constructed for them. The caste system was flexible to the extent...

temple in formal speech) section of worship and Tenavaram's agraharam (brahmadeya or chaturvedimangalam) - the Iyer or Tamil Brahmin quarter of the heterogenous...

more frequently granted in the eastern regions of the kingdom included brahmadeya (grants to Brahmins) and agricultural grants. Bittuvatta or niravari taxes...

dharmic ends were important in effecting links beyond the nadu. The brahmadeyas of different nadus created a network of ritual specialists and in doing...