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was granted privileges as befitting their status, vast areas of lands and other valuable property and "a liberal provision is made from the State funds for their maintenance in comfort and dignity". The
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Maharajah were dignified with the honorific of
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Maharajahs who were born or adopted into one of these four Ammaveedus was entitled to the royal dignities and privileges that came with the title of
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had married four ladies from the above-mentioned villages and established these
Ammaveedus. Thereafter he decreed that henceforward the Maharajahs and male members of the
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were to take consorts only from these four families and if an outsider was to be taken, she would have to be adopted into one of these.
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was espoused by a former
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married sisters who were adopted into the Thiruvattar family.
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