The Nāṣirī Generations 257.3.3

257.3.3

The meaning of Tarkhan is thus explained: “The person so called is secure and safe from all trouble and annoyance; in every place in which he serves, whatever booty he may take is his own, and he is not deprived of it; he can enter the place of audience of his sovereign without being summoned, and without first asking permission; and he can commit or be guilty of nine offences—nine is a number, as I have already noticed, held in great veneration by the Mughals—without being questioned; and Tamur-chi decreed that, for nine generations, the offspring of these Tarkhans should be exempt from all burdens and imposts.”