232. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, (June, 1906, 
But if the price of this half-share of the produce be less than 
s. 4—as, in the case of grain, if you get one seer in five Shah 
Jahani seers (?)—do not take less [than As. 4]. If an infidel 
sells his land to a Muhammadan, collect the revenue from the 
latter, because in truth it was not the Jatter’s possession |. 
Fifteenth—If any man turns his land intoa cemetery [123,b] 
ted. 
or sera in endowment (wagf), regard its revenue as remi 
[Commentary, 124, a:—As it is a pious act to endow tombs 
and serais, therefore the Emperor forbids the collection of revenue 
from them, for the sake of benefiting and doing good [ to the public}. 
Revenue ought not to be taken [from such lands], 
Siateenth.—About revenue by division of crops (kharaj-i- 
muqdsema) : Ifa man, whether Hindu or Muhammadan, is not the 
wih 
[ Commenta 
land, but holds it [by purchase or] in pawn, he ought to enjoy the 
gain from the land, whether he be Hindu or Muhammadan, on con- 
more than one-half, decrease it, if less than one-third, increase it, to. 
a proper amount, 
Seventeenth, —If the owner of a muqasema land dies without 
leaving any heir, act, in giving it in lease, direct cultivation, ete. 
cultivation, } 
h Highteenth.—In mugasema lands, if any calamity overtake 
ra crop, remit the revenue to the amount of the injury. And if 
et aga happens after reaping the grain or before reaping, 
e 
[Commentary :—The Emperor seeks the happiness of the ryots- 
fe herefore he strongly orders that no revenue waa? be demanded 
or the portion destroyed. But it should be collected for the rem- 
nant according to the share of that remnant, | 
_ Farman of the Emperor Aurangzib-Alamgir to Rasik Das krort — 
n the form of a revenue-qui : 
(267, a.] Rasik Das, thri for 
Lipa ial favours mae oe and obedient to Islam, hope : 
hat, all the desires and aims of the Emperor are directed t0 
