Question

Brahmanas were not _________ inhabitants of India, they had no right to land or authority.​

Answer 1

Brahmadeya (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. It was initially practiced by the ruling dynasties and was soon followed up by the chiefs, merchants, feudatories, etc. Brahmadeya was devised by the Brahmanical texts as the surest mean to achieve merit and destroy sin.