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of Eastern Turlcistdn. 
forward him. With this intent,* on the eleventh day of the Holy month 
Ramazan 1291, the exalted sign-manual has been impressed. 
(on the reverse) 
(Seal of the Amir). 
TRANSLATION OF AGREEMENT WRITTEN AT KASIIGHAR. 
u iyp e < 3^0 was one thousand two hundred and ninety, the nineteenth 
of Muharram: Malaq, the son of Qabil Ba'i, made a legal agreement (as 
follows) : that on account of contentions (with) my wife Aqlim Bibi, I, 
who now a°ree, having been unreasonable, henceforwardf have undertaken 
not to strike or beatlj; (her) without reason; to give (her) the necessary cost 
of living at the (proper) time, and have undertaken not to take any strange 
man into the house where my said wife is§ and whenever it shall be known 
and proved that I have taken|| a strange man into my house into the pre¬ 
sence of my wife, or have beaten || her without just cause, my said wife 
shall he free^[, if she chooses, to give to me the writer of this agreement, 
one** hill of divorcement separating herself.” 
Agreed to by loth parties in Court. (Arabic). 
y Seal of 
Sayad Ahmad ^ 
Kh’aja, Qazi in 
ordinary, son of 
Ya'qub Khan J 
kv Eshan. yY 
* Lit. “ having said” or “ signified (thus).” The usual participle, de’p, which 
closes a quotation. 
f Man-din bu-ydn ; Lit. “on this side of this (time).” 
X Soqmas boldim ; Lit. I have become not-about-to-strike Soqmas is the negative 
of Soq-ur (Continuative Participle). 
§ Ahl-im bar ui-ga. The root of the defective verb bar is here used as a Verbal 
Adjective. 
|| Kirgan-im, soq-qan-im, Verbal Substantives in the possessed form ; lit. “my en¬ 
tering,” “ my striking.” Aliqj-JcirmaJc is a compound verb = “ having taken, to enter” 
= “ to take into.” 
If Lit. “having obtained the option, if she pleases, lot her &c.” 
** One out of the throe which Musalman law allows before the divorce is irrevoca¬ 
ble under ordinary circumstances. 
