Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c26.s2.394
Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c26.s2.394
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*Nelpāḍu*, Tam. (?) (Cf. *Nel*, or *nellu*, Tam. Rice in husk, paddy, fifty eight kinds of which are grown in Malabar. (*b*) A fundamental measure eight grains being equal to the breadth of a finger. *Pāḍu*, Tel. waste, uncultivated fellow; Tam. *Pāḍu*, deficiency on remeasurement. *Nelpāḍu* cf. *Nellipāṭam*, Tam. Rent upon fields of growing rice. (*W.*, pp. 286, 374, 386; *E.R.* for 1916, p. 140).