Brahmadeya Grants

Brahmadeya Grants
   These were land grants made in perpetuity by Hindu rajas for the support of Brahmans that gave a right to individuals, sometimes to entire communities, to collect taxes on the produce of land and also exercise general control over local resources. Under the Cholas the recipients of brahmadeya grants were treated as secular landowners where any question of tenure was involved. The pattern of these grants remained unchanged from the Pallava times. This is borne out, for example, by the Anbil grant of Sundara Chola that records the donation of land to Aniruddha Brahmadhiraja.

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