Statement of Adi Sethi about a dispute with the merchant and landlord Nar Sethi over a row of shops in Solapur
The village headmen and community heads of Solapur are to be summoned to give testimony about the ownership of a row of shops, which is contested by the merchant Adi Sethi and the merchant and landlord (desai) Nar Sethi.
Functional document type: Judicial Documents
Formal document type: Katba
Themes: Disputes, Inheritance, Property, Trade
Date:
Suhur calendar: 23 Jumada al-sani 983
Gregorian calendar:
1582
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invocation (top centre): Persian
ا
Alif
authorisation (top left margin): Persian
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[Black starburst ink seal] …
main text: Persian
1دستخط
2باسم
اد سیتهی
بن رامسیتهی سیتهیا قصبه
3
سدلاپور
سهور سنه ثلاث ثمانین تسعمایه
4چنان کتبه برده که دوکان قصبه مذکور
5سر ولای راسته میراث خود است
6درینوقت
نرس سیتهی
دیسای
فرمان
7اورده است که سر ولای دوکان
8بحکم منصفی بدهانند بنابران هر دو
9قرار دادیم که مقدمان و پنجاه دو قوم
10قصبه مذکور را کل
سدرام
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11اگر ايشان دوکان سر ولای راسته
نرس سیتهی
12دیسای است این نوع گواهی خواهند داد
13دوکان بخود نسبت ندارد اگر ازین سخن
14تجاوز شود گنهگار دیوان باشم
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۲۳
ماه جماد
[الاخر]
سنه
[۹۹۲]
1Writing
2
In the name of Ad Sethi, son of Ram Sethi, the sethiya of the qasba
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of Sandlapur [Solapur] in the Suhur year three eighty nine-hundred [983].
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Such a katba has been brought that [among] the shops in the aforementioned qasba,
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possession of a row of shops is my patrimony.
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At this time, the desai Nars Sethi has brought a farman [stating]
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that possession over the shops
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should be given [to him] by order of the judge. On account of this both of us
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struck an agreement that the muqaddams and the fifty two communities
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of the aforementioned qasba [should gather at] the Siddharama [temple], and
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if they, [seeing that] the shop is in the control of the desai Nars Sethi,
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should provide testimony [to that fact],
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[then], the store has no connection to me. If from this speech
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there should be any deviation, then I will be a criminal of the diwan.
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23 in the month of Jumada [al-Akhir]1 year [992]
authorisation (middle): Persian
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main text: Marathi
1दर बदीगी अज दीवाणे
2मामले
सोनलपूर
साहेब
3सदर गोसावीयाचे बदी
4गासी
5
द||
ब||
आदी सेठी
बीन रमी से-
6ठी सेठीया
क||
मजकूर
सु||
सन
7सलास समनीन व तीसमेया
करणे
8लीहून दीधले कतबा यैसाजे
क||
9मजकुरचे रस्ता दुकान सरवीले
10आमचे मीरसी पीडी दर पीडी चली-
11ले आहे दर वक्त
नर सेठी
देसाई दी-
12वाणाचे फर्मान आणीले असे जे
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13
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पीडी दर पीडी चलिले आहे म्हणौ[न]
14मुनसीफ करऊन देवणे म्हणौन
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हर दो घेऊन
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नेम केले
16आहे
क||
मजकुरीचे मोकदम व
…
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कुम लहन थोर मीलून
18सिदरम देवचे
प्रसाद घालून
19धर्मत पसुणे
नर सेठीचे
दुकन म्ह-
20णौन बोलीले जरी तेचे दुबाले
21करणे तेवरी हरकता केले तरी
22दीवाणाचे गुन्हेगार असे हे कत-
23बा आमची सही छ २३ माहे जमादि-
24लाखर
1In compliments from the diwan
2of muaʿmala Sonalapur to the
3compliments of the exalted
4masters
5Writing in the name of Adi Sethi, son of Rami Sethi,
6sethiya of the aforementioned qasba in the Suhur year
7of three eighty and nine-hundred [983], the reason [being that]
8a katba is written. Such that
9possession over the aforementioned qasba’s row of shops
10has been our patrimony from generation to generation.
11At this time, the desai Nar Sethi
12brought a farman of the diwan such that
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13[the patrimony] has proceeded from generation to generation so
14justice should be effected. So
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[a procedure has been established].
16The aforementioned qasba’s muqaddams and
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17communities small and large should be gathered
18and caused to make an offering to Siddarama Dev
19and ask rightly
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If the shops belong to Nar Sethi,
20so they say, then custody of it
21should be given [to him]. After this, if any opposition should be made
22then may [they] be criminals of the diwan. This katba
23is approved by us. On the date 23 of the month of
24Jumadi al-Akhir.
Notes
1. al-Akhir (the last) is a common variation on al-Sani (the second). [BACK]
2. These seals appear at the bottom of the first image but in the middle of the physical document. [BACK]
head of a body of merchants and superintendent of a marketplace
town, small city
legally binding declaration
town, small city
landlord (Similar to deshmukh)
imperial order
village headman
town, small city
landlord (Similar to deshmukh)
Head of imperial or provincial revenue department, or manager of finances in a noble's household
Head of imperial or provincial revenue department, or manager of finances in a noble's household
district, especially in Bijapur administrative nomenclature
head of a body of merchants and superintendent of a marketplace
town, small city
legally binding declaration
town, small city
landlord (Similar to deshmukh)
imperial order
Head of imperial or provincial revenue department, or manager of finances in a noble's household
town, small city
village headman
Head of imperial or provincial revenue department, or manager of finances in a noble's household
legally binding declaration
Participants
Issuer:
Adi Sethi
son of Rami Sethi
Language(s)
Persian
Marathi
Source
Bharat Itihas Sansodhak Mandal, rumal 4, no. 7
Archival Collection: Solapur Deshmukh collection
Transcribed from manuscript image
Edited by Nandini Chatterjee and Dominic Vendell
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