Order of Asadullah to several banjaras regarding tax-free grain purchases
Nayak Singha and other migratory grain and cattle merchants (banjaras) are not to be harassed for tax when they buy grain in district (pargana) Dhar.
Functional document type: Orders
Formal document type: Dastak
Themes: Trade, Taxation and Tribute, Natural Resources
Date:
Hijri-qamri calendar: 1 Ramzan 1073
Gregorian calendar:
9 April 1663
[Page 1r]
invocation (top centre): Arabic
هو
He [God] is
main text: Persian
1دستک
2باسم
[نایک|نانک]
سینگها
وغیره بنجارها آنکه خاطر خود را
3بهمه جهت جمع داشته در پرگنه
دهار
آمده غله خرید نمایند که
4هیچکس در دهات برای زکوه مزاحم نخواهد شد در این باب
5نهایت تاکید دانسته حسب المُسطور بعمل آورند
6تحریر فی التاریخ
غره شهر رمضان المبارک سنه
۱۰٧٣
هجری
فقطُ1
1Dastak
2 in the name of
[Nayak|Nanak]
Singha
etc. banjaras, that having settled their minds
3in all respects and come to pargana
Dhar, they should buy grain,
4and nobody in the villages will trouble [them] for taxes.
5Knowing this matter to be completely settled, do as written.
6Written on the
1st of Ramzan Mubarak in the year 1073 Hijri.
Nothing further.
invocation (right margin): Arabic
هوُ
He [God] is
authorisation (right margin): Persian
1حسب المسطور مقرر دانسته
2بعمل آورند هچ کس خلاف
3این دستک نخواهد نمود بخاطر جمع در کار خود
4مقید بوده باشند الیه الیه
بیض
5
[اسد الله]
…
نوازش خانی
1Knowing it settled as written,
2do it. Nobody will oppose
3this dastak. With assured minds, be engaged
4in your work. As aforementioned.
Ended.
5[Round black ink seal]
[Asadullah]
…
of
Nawazish Khan
Notes
1. Unusually, the scribe has placed a large pish (marker of the short vowel 'o') above the logograph. [BACK]
order
itinerant grain and cattle merchant
district
order
Participants
Issuer:
Asadullah
Recipient:
Nayak Singha
Language(s)
Arabic
Persian
Source
Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, LNS 235 MS n1
Archival Collection: Purshottam Das collection
Transcribed from manuscript image.
Edited by Elizabeth Thelen
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