Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 37.6.7

37.6.7

These regulations extended even to the price of grocery: — Sugar-candy, 1 seer, 2 jeetuls. Moist sugar, 1 seer, 1 jeetul. Red and coarse sugar, 1 seer, ½ jeetul. Lamp oil, 3 seers, 1 jeetul. Ghee (clarified butter), 1 seer, ½ jeetul. Salt, 5 seers, 1 jeetul. Onions and garlick, 1 seer, 1 jeetul. The King received daily reports from three different departments on this subject; and he even employed the boys in the street to go and purchase articles, to ascertain that no variation took place from the fixed rates. It is related in the Moolhikat of Sheikh Ein-ood-Deen Beejapoory, that one of his favourites, by way of a joke, proposed a fixed price for prostitution; and the King, smiling, said, Very well, that shall be fixed also. Accordingly, prostitutes were classed under the denomination of first, second, and third, and a price fixed on them.