A History of Agriculture in India v1.c38.6

v1.c38.6

A Brahmadeya was sometimes changed into a Vellan-Vagai village, i.e. into an ordinary cultivators' village. Thus an inscription of the reign of Rajendra Choladeva I records that Palaiyanur, a Brahmadeya village of the assembly of Singalantaka-Chaturvedimangalam, is to be withdrawn from the latter and become Vellan-Vagai village, but, unlike the other Vellan-Vagais, should pay a standing fixed tax in money and kind, and become a Devadana of the temple of Palaiyanur-Tiruvalangadu.