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This passage occurs in a chapter of which the heading is, 

 4i The Fixing of the Weight of the Dam at fourteen Mashas.' ' 



Mirat-irAhmadi , Bombay Lithograph, 1307 a.h. 



Part I, pp. 279—280. 



"As in those days, the commodity, copper, had become 

 scarce, the money-changers of the city of Ahmadabad had 

 black coins of iron [made and] circulated, and they exchanged 

 them only at exorbitant (lit. heavy) rates. Consequently, 

 Mahabat Khan [the Subahdar of Ahmadabad] ordered out a 

 large quantity of copper from all quarters, and had it stamped 

 with the auspicious name, though a slight reduction was made 

 in the weight, in comparison with the old copper (lit. black) 

 coins. He issued to the Superintendent of the mint a sanad 

 (authority, voucher) for writing off the annual profit made from 

 the copper (lit. black) coinage. The Superintendent reported 

 the matter to the Diwan [the chief Financial Officer] of the 

 Subah, who declared that without a sanad (authority or sanction) 

 from His Majesty, he could not forego the said revenue from 

 the copper money. The Governor of the Province replied that 

 if his sanad was upheld by the Court, which was the Asylum 

 of the Universe, it would be [so much the] better; otherwise, 

 his humble self (2*1. the slave) would [out of his private purse] 

 pay to the Public Treasury the amount of annual revenue [made 

 by the State from the copper coinage]. When the above-men- 

 tioned fact reached the August Presence through the Reports 

 [of the Official News writers], an Imperial (lit. universally-obeyed 

 and world-subduing) mandate was beneficently addressed to 



