Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c26.s2.51

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*Araśi-kāṇam*, Tam. (?). *Arśi*=any kind of grain, but especially rice, freed from chaff. (*W.* p. 32). *Kāṇam*=Mal. mortgage, free, present or reward. It also applies to an advance or loan of money as the equivalent to, or consideration for, a mortgage or transfer of landed property, fields and gardens into the occupancy of the person advancing the money, without prejudice to the proprietor's vested rights, to whom, also, the occupant is bound to pay all the proceeds of the estate in excess of the interest of the money he has advanced (*W.*, pp. 255-256). For *araśi-kāṇam*, see *E. R.* for 1913, p. 139.