1870.] Translations from the TdriJcli i Firuz Shdhi. 39 



fixed rates, they would cheat in the weights and decrease the quantity 

 of the wares (?), and would 'burn' the buyers, especially such as were 

 simple or young. When the Sultan 'Alauddin enquired and saw that 

 the people of the bazar would not be submissive as behoved them, and 

 did not desist from giving short weight, falsifying, and ' burning' the 

 simple and the young, he called sometimes simple slaves from his 

 pigeon houses, gave them ten or twenty dirhams (i. e., tankahs), and 

 told them to go to the bazar, ordering one to bring bread and roast- 

 meat, and another to fetch bread and Yakhm, a third to bring Halwd, 

 a fourth to bring Heori, a fifth, melons, a sixth, cucumbers, and so on ; 

 and when the boys returned with the things they had bought, the 

 Sultan sent for the Rais, and had the articles brought by the boys 

 weighed in his presence. Whatever was found to be deficient in the 

 articles the boys had brought, was given to the Rais, and he went and 

 stood before the shop of the fraudulent seller, cut a quantity of flesh 

 equal to the deficiency from his two cheeks, and then kicked him out 

 of the shop. These punishments were continued for some time till, at 

 last, the bazar people become quite submissive, and discontinued 

 giving short weight, and cheating and falsifying, and burning inex- 

 perienced purchasers and cheating the young ; nay, they even gave so 

 much and so correct weights, that on enquiry it was found out that 

 they had given above the fixed quantity.] 



[But this rule, these enquiries, the strictness with which the orders 

 were carried out, and the punishments inflicted on the bazar people, 

 came to an end with the death of 'Alauddin, and of all the thousand 

 regulations of the 'Alai reign, his son Sultan Qutbuddin could not 

 enforce this regulation.] 



Effect of ' Alauddin'' 's Administrative Measures. (Ed. Bill. Indica, 

 p. 319 to 326.)* 



[As soon at the prices had become low and things were cheap, a 

 Murattab (p. 23) could be enlisted for 234, and a JDuaspah for 78 



* The following errors occur on pp. 322 to 325 in the Ed. Bill. Indica : — 



P. 322, 1. 2 read 4-ij^.i j I- 6 read £js* ■ I. 9 the name is wrong (vide below)* 



P. 323, I. 1, wo expect *jjj! for *j <xj ■ transfer the last Alif to the end of the 



third lino ; 1. 12 dele ^hh • I, 13 read Jj5>^ or J$i J&i./e • I. 14 read jU>j for [&*, 



and^.uj4U or jjJ&s: for^jAj3U- 1. 17 read^lij for <jyl*J • 1. 13 ^l^a. for^jLjua. 



