Storia do Mogor 88.2.5

88.2.5

Ignorance made them thus satisfied, for they were not aware that the King of the Moguls sends sarapas (sets of robes) to subjects only. To send a sarapa to anyone is to declare him to be a subject. If he submit to this, no further present need be added. The reader should understand that the Kings of Bijapur and Gulkandah, and the Rana, when the Mogul king sent them sarapas, were under obligation to come out one league from their capital to be invested with the robes, after making obeisance three times, as usual in Hindustan, with their face turned in the direction of the court and the letters placed on the top of their head. But the king Rana [of Udepur ?] would never consent to put on the sarapa of the Mogul, in order not to admit himself to be a subject, although every year he pays for seven thousand cavalry, who are kept continuously in the service of the Mogul king.