The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 2: The Chain of Justice.

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[The first order which I issued was for the setting up of a Chain of Justice, so that if the officers of the Courts of Justice should fail in the investigation of the complaints of the oppressed, and in granting them redress, the injured persons might come to this chain and shake it, and so give notice of their wrongs. I ordered that the chain should be made of pure gold, and be thirty gaz long, with sixty bells upon it. The weight of it was four Hindustani mans, equal to thirty-two mans of ’Irak. One end was firmly attached to a battlement of the fort of Agra, the other to a stone column on the bank of the river.]