1870.] Translations from the Tarikh i Firuz Shdhi. 31 



[The prices of other fine and coarse articles may be inferred from 

 those which I have given]. 



[The Sardi 'Adl was open from early morning till the time of the 

 last prayer. People thus got what they needed, and no one returned 

 disappointed]. 



[The third regulation for the above purpose was this that the name 

 of the merchants of the town and the country had to be registered in 

 the book of the Diwan (rais). The Sultan 'Alauddin ordered that 

 the names of all merchants, whether Musalmans or Hindus, of the 

 Empire should be registered in the book of the Diwan (Diwan i 

 riydsaf), and further that a regulation should be made for all merchants 

 in the town and outside. According to this order a regulation was made, 

 and merchants had to sign engagements, whereby they were compelled 

 to bring a certain quantity of wares to town and to sell them at the rates 

 fixed by the Sultan. When the latter provision of the regulation was 

 carried out, the articles which the Saltan had to furnish, fell off in 

 in number, and the merchants that came within the regulation, 

 brought a great deal of wares to the Sardi 'Adl, where they were 

 stored up for a long time without being sold]. 



[The fourth regulation for the above purpose provided that 

 advances from the Treasury should be made to Multani traders, so 

 so that they might bring articles to town, and sell them in the 

 Sardi 'Adl at the rates fixed by the Sultan. The Sultan 'Alauddin 

 ordered that advances within twenty lacs of tankahs should be made 

 to rich Multani merchants from the treasury, who were to be put in 

 charge of the Sardi ''Adl ; and he told the Multanis to bring articles 

 from all parts of the Empire, and sell them at the rates fixed by the 

 Sultan in the Sardi. Whenever merchants did not bring articles to 

 town, this regulation was applied, and articles remained cheap]. 



[The fifth regulation for the above purpose consisted in this that 

 the Diwan (rais) was ordered to grant passes for the purchase of costly 

 articles. The Sultan 'Alauddin ordered that no man should be allowed 

 to buy in the Sardi Adl costly stuffs, as Tasbih, Tabriz!, embroidered, 

 cloths with gold threads, Dihli floselle silks, kamkhabs, Shushtar silks, 

 Hariri silks, Chinese silks, Bhiram (?) silks, Deogir silks, and other 

 stuffs which common people do not use, without first obtaining a pass 

 from the Diwan, and writing out a receipt for them. The Diwan then 



