Brahmadeya

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 early medieval India. It was initially practiced by the ruling dynasties and was soon followed up by the chiefs, merchants, feudatories, etc. Brahmadeya was devised by the Brahmanical texts as the surest means to achieve merit and destroy sin.

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