HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Saatvahana
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Pala
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Gupta
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Pratihara
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Detailed explanation-1: -Notes: Guptas have given the largest grant of villages to the temples and Brahamans.
Detailed explanation-2: -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 medieval India.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Satavahanas were also the first rulers to make land grants to Brahmanas, although we find more instances of such grants being made to Buddhist monks. The Satavahanas adopted the policy of promoting immunities to Brahmanas and monks, mainly to promote agriculture.
Detailed explanation-4: -Land grants given to Brahmanas were known as brahmadeya. A group of prominent Brahmana landholders formed a ‘Sabha’. They looked after brahmadeya lands.
Detailed explanation-5: -The first examples of royal land grant charters that we have were issued by the Satavahana dynasty.