[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 62.4 # The Rashīdī History 62.4 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 62.4 - **Language:** English ### [62.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.62.4) On some days as many as 5000 sheep were given out, together with a proportionate amount of flour and barley and hay. Some years, 3000 persons were in attendance on the Amir, and each one was given his provisions. The inhabitants of the different villages were always anxious for the Amir to come to stay in their village, and the hunting party, on its arrival, would make them participate in their own store of good things. Fakhruddin used to relate that on one occasion, when they had alighted in our village, which is Artuch, the Amir's master of the hunt \[Mir-Shikdr\] having brought some flour, gave it to a poor woman to bake, promising her, as a wage for her work, one of the six loaves, which were to be made from the flour he had supplied her with; but when the woman brought the loaves, he refused to give her one of them, saying: "I supplied the flour and the wood and the salt; what have you deserved of me?" At that moment the Amir happened to be passing by on horseback. He stopped and asked the woman what her trouble was: the woman laid her complaint before the Amir, who then questioned the master of the hunt. As this latter acknowledged the truth of the poor woman's story, the Amir said to him: "Why did you not bake your own bread, instead of troubling this woman?" The Amir then sent to a blacksmith's-shop for some pincers, and caused all the wretched man's teeth to be drawn from his head. I have repeated this tale as a proof of the Amir's justice. - [Previous: 62.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.62.3) - [Next: 62.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.62.5) - [Up: 62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.62) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.62.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.62.4) · Pramāṇa