30 Translations from the Tdrikh i Firuz Shahi. [No. 1, 



fixed, such wares should lapse to the Sultan, and the owner should be 

 liable to severe punishment. On account of this regulation all wares 

 were deposited in the Sardi 'Adl, whether in value from one hundred, 

 or from thousand to ten thousand tanlcolis.~] 



[The second regulation for the above purpose fixed the prices of 

 sundry articles. Thus the prices of silk, &c, were as follows : — 



Dihli Khazz Silk, .. 16 Taniaks. 



Orange coloured, raw silk, Khazz i Kaunlai 

 ( ItojS )* 6 T. 



Half silks mixed with hair, as prescribed 



in the Muhammudan law, fine, 3 T. 



Red striped stuffs, ... 6 Jetals. 



Common stuffs, 3.}- J. 



Red lining as woven at Nagor, 24 J. 



Coarse lining, 12 J. 



Shirin baft, fine,.... 5 T. 



Do., Middling, 3 T. 



Do., Coarse, 2 T. 



SiUhatiyf fine, 6 T. (?) 



Do., Middling, 4 T. 



Do., Coarse, 2 T. 



Long cloth (Kirpds), fine, 1 T., for 20 gaz. 



Do., Coarse, 1 T., for 40y«2. 



Again, White sugar, 2J Jetal, per ser. 



Light brown sugar (shakar i tar), l£ </"., Do. 



Brown sugar, l£ X, for 3 sers. 



Grease, of different animals, 1 J., for l|-s. 



Sesame oil, 1 J"., for 3 s. 



Salt, 1 J., for 2£ mans. 



* Regarding Khazz silk, vide Kin translation p. 92, note 4. The word 

 JULYS' must be written with a hamzah above the ^ a3 j n a n other adjectives de- 

 noting colour ; e. g., &x~*jpistat, looking green like the pistachio nut, fyb nuqrai 

 looking like silver, f^-a. chihrat pink, &c. Vide J. A. S. Bengal, for 1868, p. 41. 



Hence Jib**' looking like a 4Uy ( Hind, an orange), as raw cocoon silk looks. 



f The price mentioned is very high. The stuff which people now-a-days 

 call Sildhati is a kind of cloth made of cotton, and was even at the times of 

 Akbar very cheap. Ain translation, p. 95. Compare the above list with Briggs 

 I, p. 35G. 



