thumb|right|200px| An Agraharam in Thanjavur District, [[Tamil Nadu]] right|thumb|An Agraharam from Tirunelveli assembled within the [[DakshinaChitra museum.]] An Agraharam ( or ) was a grant of land and royal income from it, typically by a king or a noble family in ancient Tamilakam and in modern times in southern part of India, for religious purposes, particularly to Brahmins to maintain temples in that land or a pilgrimage site and to sustain their families. Agraharams were also known as in ancient times. They were also known as ghatoka, and boya. Agraharams were built and maintained by dyn
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thumb|right|200px| An Agraharam in Thanjavur District, [[Tamil Nadu]] right|thumb|An Agraharam from Tirunelveli assembled within the [[DakshinaChitra museum.]] An Agraharam ( or ) was a grant of land and royal income from it, typically by a king or a noble family in ancient Tamilakam and in modern times in southern part of India, for religious purposes, particularly to Brahmins to maintain temples in that land or a pilgrimage site and to sustain their families. Agraharams were also known as in ancient times. They were also known as ghatoka, and boya. Agraharams were built and maintained by dynasties such as the Pandya, Cholas, Kadambas, Pallavas, Vijayanagara and other Deccan dynasties since ancient times.
They were known by different names in different parts of India, like Sāsana in Odisha. The name Agraharam originates from the fact that the agraharams have lines of houses on either side of the road and the temple to the village god at the centre, thus resembling a garland around the temple. According to the traditional Hindu practice of architecture and town-planning, an agraharam is held to be two rows of houses running north–south on either side of a road at one end of which would be a temple to Shiva and at the other end, a temple to Vishnu. An example is Vadiveeswaram in Tamil Nadu.
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