The Nāṣirī Generations 100.3

100.3

Malik Yamin-ud-Din, Bahram Shah, ruled with great firmness and sagacity. It had been a practice of old, in the territory of Nimroz, among the tribes [therein], to be constantly quarrelling and fighting among themselves; and no person entered a city or town without being fully armed. When the sovereignty devolved upon Bahram Shah, he made every tribe give hostages, and kept them shut up in different fortresses, so that, in whatever tribe blood might be shed unjustly, the chiefs and head men of the tribe were held responsible for the crime. Through this stringent order such acts of bloodshed decreased.