Correct Option
(D) Eripatti refers to land revenue specifically allocated for the maintenance and upkeep of village tanks and irrigation systems, particularly prevalent during the Chola period in South India. This practice highlights the advanced water management and agrarian administration of the era.
Ghatikas were educational institutions, often affiliated with temples, that served as centers for higher learning, religious studies, and philosophical discourse in ancient and early medieval South India.
Incorrect Options
Taniyurs were autonomous administrative units or large villages that functioned as independent revenue-paying entities within the Chola administrative structure. They were not necessarily villages donated to Brahmins. Villages donated to Brahmins were known as Brahmadeya.
Therefore, pair 2 is incorrectly matched.