Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.36.5

78.36.5

One day it happened that a Hindu in the dress of a Muslim came into his assembly, and he with his usual genuine humility, taking him for a Muslim, stood up to greet that Hindu. When he found out the true state of the case, he felt ashamed and ordered that from that day forward all Hindus should sew a patch of stuff of a different colour on their garments near the bottom of the sleeve, that there might be a mark to distinguish between Muslims and Kafirs. For this reason he was commonly known among the people by the title of Tukri'ah, for they call a patch tukrā, which is another name for the Arabic word Ghiyār (with kasra under the dotted 'ain, and yā, with two dots below, so that it is of the form of the word diyár). On another occasion he ordered that the Káfirs, in accordance with the requirements of the Holy Law, should not ride on saddles, but should sit on a pack-saddle. When on a journey, out of deference to the Sayyids, and men of learning and excellence (who used to attend him, and to greet whom he, when seated, used always to rise), he would never use a four-post bedstead: nor would he voluntarily omit saying the Prayers in the night any more than the Friday prayers in the mosque.