Muntakhab al-tawarikh 3.1

3.1

[Text, vol. i. p. 384.] Salim Shah, in the beginning of his reign, issued orders that as the sarais of Sher Shah were two miles distant from one another, one of similar form should be built between them for the convenience of the public; that a mosque and a reservoir should be attached to them, and that vessels of water and of victuals, cooked and uncooked, should be always kept in readiness for the entertainment of Hindu, as well as Muhammadan, travellers. In one of his orders he directed that all the madad-ma'ash and aima tenures in Hindustan which Sher Shah had granted, and all the sarais which he had built and the gardens he had laid out, should not be alienated, and that no change should be made in their limits. He took away from the nobles all the dancing girls maintained in their courts, according to the common practice of India. He also took from them all their elephants, and let none of them retain more than a sorry female, adapted only for carrying baggage.