[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Administrative Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929) › c9.s2.24 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c9.s2.24 Hindu Administrative Institutions c9.s2.24 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c9.s2.24) Most of the available inscriptions record gift of land, free of taxes made by the kings to Brahmans versed in the Vedas. The following may be quoted: ‘These 77, 6/20ths and 1/160ths (\*veli\*) of land more or less we gave including the trees over ground, the wells under ground, in the land and all other benefits (\*prāptis\*) of whatever kind having first excluded the former owners and the hereditary proprietors, and having purchased (it) as tax free property (\*kāṇi\*) for the 106 Bhaṭṭas of this village and for the two shares (of the image) of Sāmantanārāyaṇa-viṇṇagar Emberumān from the rainy season of the thirty-fifth (year of our reign) as a meritorious gift (\*dharma-dāna\*) with libations of water with the right to bestow mortgage or sell (it) as a tax free grant of land to last as long as the moon and the sun.’¹ - [Previous: c9.s2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c9.s2.23) - [Next: c9.s2.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c9.s2.25) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c9.s2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c9.s2.24) · Pramāṇa