The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 22: Regulations.

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It had repeatedly come to my hearing, that the amirs at the frontier posts were in the habit of requiring certain observances to which they had no right, paying no regard to the established rules and ordinances. Accordingly, the bakhshis were ordered to issue farmans prohibiting them from observing in future those practices which are peculiar to emperors. 1. Not to sit at the jharoka or window. 2. Not to give the amirs and sardars serving under them the annoyance of their own chair or of requiring obeisance to the chair. 3. Not to have elephant fights. 4. Not to punish any person by ordering him to be blinded, or to have his nose or ears cut off. 5. Not to forcibly impose Musulman burdens (taklif-i Musulmani) on any one. 6. Not to grant titles to their servants. 7. Not to require the servants of the State to bow their bodies or to touch the ground before them. 8. Not to trouble the singers and musicians to give chairs after the manner of a darbar. 9. Not to have the drums beaten at the time of their going out. 10. When they presented a horse or elephant to any man, whether a public or private servant, they were not to require obeisance from him with a horse’s bridle or an elephant’s goad placed upon his back. 11. Not to make the royal servants to walk on foot in their retinue. 12. Not to place their seals upon letters addressed to royal servants. These rules, which were promulgated under the title of A’in-i Jahangiri, are now in force.