The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c4.s2.8

c4.s2.8

The daul, or estimate, was made over to the diary-writer (wāqiʿah navīs), who, after he had entered it in the wāqiʿah (diary), prepared an extract called a memorandum (yād-dāsht) for submission to the office of the confirmation of orders (ʿarz-i-mukarrar, lit. second petition). The yād-dāsht repeated the facts much in the same form as the ḥaqīqat and the daul. On it the wazīr wrote: "Let this be compared with the diary (wāqiʿah) and then sent on to the confirmation office (ʿarz-i-mukarrar)." On the margin the diary-writer (wāqiʿah navīs) then reported: "This yād-dāsht accords with the wāqiʿah." Next the superintendent (dāroghah) of the confirmation office wrote: "On such-and-such a date of such-and-such a month of such-and-such a year this reached the confirmation office. The order given was — 'Approved.'" We need not follow here the further fate of the order after it left the Court and reached the governor of the province referred to.