The Institutes of Akbar 135.6.4

135.6.4

In 1000, the custom of shaving off the beard was introduced.” In 1002, special orders were given to the kotwals to carry out Akbar’s commands. They will be found in the Third book of the Ain, Ain 5. The following are new: If any of the darsaniyyah disciples died, whether man or woman, they should hang some uncooked grains and a burnt brick round the neck of the corpse, and throw it into the river, and then they should take out the corpse, and burn it at a place where no water was. But this order is based upon a fundamental rule, which His Majesty indicated, but which I cannot here mention. If a woman was older than her husband by twelve years, he should not lie with her, and if a young girl was found running about town, whether veiled or not, or if a woman was bad, or quarrelled with her husband, she should be sent to the quarter of the prostitutes, to do there what she liked.” [p. 391.]