The Institutes of Akbar 23.4

23.4

Secondly, on the 18th Mihr of the 29th year of the Divine era, ’Azad-uddaulah Amír Fathullah of Shiráz coming at the head of affairs, a royal order was issued, that on the muhurs, as far as three grains; and on the rupees, as far as six grains short weight, no account should be taken, but that they should be reckoned of full weight. If muhurs were still less, they should make a deduction for the deficiency, whatever their deficiency might be; but it was not ordered, that only muhurs down to nine grains less, should be regarded as muhurs. Again, according to the same regulation, the value of a muhur that was one surkh deficient, was put down as 355 dams and a fraction; and hence they valued the price of one surkh of coined gold at the low rate of four dáms and a fraction. According to Todarmal’s regulation, a deduction of five dáms was made for a deficiency of one surkh; and if the muhur had lost something more than the three grains, for which he had made no account, even if it were only ½ surkh, full five dáms were subtracted; and for a deficiency of 1½ surkhs, he deducted ten dáms, even if the deficiency should not be quite 1½ surkhs. By the new law of ’Azaduddaulah, the value of a muhur was lessened by six dáms and a fraction, as its gold was worth 353 dáms and a fraction only.