The Book of Akbar 208.1.13

208.1.13

Further let gerfalcons (shunqar), and hawks, saker (cargh), sparrow hawks (basha), royal falcons (shahin), peregrine falcons (bahri) and the like which may be in the son’s establishment, or that of the asylum of dominion or his sons, be presented, and let all his servants have silk khil’ats of every kind and colour suitable to each—coloured velvets, waved silks (khara) and tabna-kalabattun, and gold brocade. And on arrival at the quarters, let his servants be brought before our son, who shall, with the munificent ways which are hereditary with him from his ancestors, entertain them, giving each a suit of clothes and a horse befitting his condition, and let not the largesse (to each) exceed three tumans. Also let twelve times nine pieces of silk, including velvet, satin, European and Yezdi kamkhāb, and bāfta-shāmī (Syrian cloth) and other choice materials (be taken), and let three hundred gold tūmāns be placed in thirty purses, together with the silk aforesaid, and let there be given to every soldier and servant three Tabrīzī tūmāns, which are equal to 600 shāhīs. Let him spend three days in the Avenue and in the underground-channel country (kārīzgāh). And order that, during these three days, various artificers make a cahār-tāq-bandī from the gate of the Cahār Bāgh, which is a royal palace, to the Avenue which is in the Bāgh ‘Īdgāh.