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nasalin o batnan ha? da batninj without tacdiq o yddddsht, or liability of 

 keeping up a military establishment. Nor is the income liable to 

 future taxation, on the ground that the revenue of the villages has 

 increased. All taxes are remitted, as peshlcash, mdl, ji/idt, faujddri ; 

 also sdyir imposts, as qanalghah,* muhaggildnah, ddroghdnah, zdbitdnah 

 (surveying taxes) ; shilcdr o bekdr (?), the five per cent, muqaddami, 

 and the two per cent, qdnungoi. 



The date of the grant is 5th Jumada II., of the 26th year, 

 A. H. 1199, or A. D. 1784. 



On the back of the grant, the following fourteen villages are 

 specified : — 



1. Mahgdmv, the jagir of Rajah ^Ua. (?) Earn. 



2 , (name not legible), an altamglid tenure of the late 



Baqaullah Khan, in exchange for a mauza? of the name of ^j^ 

 IClianwld. 



3. Sativd, held in Altamglid by .... Munshi i Mustaufi. 



4. Rasulpiir, the jagir of the late B a h a d u r 'A 1 i Khan. 



5. Amraul, in the name of Amiruddin Khan, the Diwanf 

 of the ptibah of Ilahabad. 



6. Bhimrauli (Jchdg) 



7. Achharpura Sarauli. 



18. Bargdnw. 

 9. Balirampur. 

 10. Basond. 

 11. BaVhMlah [or YaVhdlah (?)] 

 12. Jagdespur Soohd. 

 13. Nai Sardi. 

 14. BhdU. 



The Surveyor General's Map of the District of Allahabad for 

 1845, contains the names of villages Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, of 

 which Amraul (5), Basona (10) and Jagdespur (12) lie on the Jam- 

 nah, the last on the right bank, in the Parganah of Barah. The 

 other villages lie north and north-west of Allahabad. No. 7, 



* I do not know the correct pronunciation of the (Turkish) word <XAjUj\ It 

 is not given in any Dictionary or Glossary, native or European. On the ily leaf 

 of one of my MS S. I found the remark that AxJUj' is the same as the Hindi 

 Ui^, coriander seed. The tax on qcmalghah is mentioned by Abul Fazl (Ain 

 text, p. 301) as one of the vexatious taxes which Akbar abolished. 



