A grant of land, or of a whole village and the royal revenue from it, made over to brahmins, usually to support Vedic learning or the service of a temple. Agraharas are among the commonest transactions recorded in medieval Indian inscriptions.

Where this term appears

• The Golagi matha: the monastery that survives only in its own praise Lineages →

  Two villages were given, one by the Kakatiya king Ganapatideva and one by his daughter Rudramba, and amalgamated into a single agrahara , a village settled on brahmins, named Visvesvara Golaki.

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