Bharathiyar was asking for about 1.32 acres of land https://thakavalkalangiam.blogspot.com/2013/03/blog-post_953...

Thanks. I'd assumed he was going for the humble, ascetic, "I don't need much" intent, but I should have known that isn't Bharatiyar's style! Asking for 1.32 acres fits better with the rest of the poem where Bharati doesn't hold back from expressing his (pretty reasonable) wants.

> Dammidi must be தம்படி, and survives mostly as an insult.

Ha! It survives as in insult in Telugu too: "He doesn't have an income of even a dammidi."

Same for Marathi.