The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c16.s8.4

c16.s8.4

5. *gul-farūshī* = tax on the sale of flowers.
6. *darībah-i-tambūl* = tax on the sale of betel leaves sold in the state market. The printed text has *jiziyah-i-tambūl* which means 'a tax on betel leaves.' *Sīrat-i-Fīrūzshāhī* also has *darībah*.
7. *chungī-i-ghallah* = octroi on grain and cereals (*chungī* = handful).
8. *kitābī* = a tax on letter-writers, legal scribes, etc.
9. *nilgarī* = a tax on the manufacture of indigo. The printed text has *belgarī* which is unlikely. *Sīrat-i-Fīrūzshāhī* has *nilgarī*.
10. *māhī-farūshī* = a tax on the sale of fish.
11. *nadāfī* = a tax on the carders of cotton
12. *ṣābungarī* = a tax on soap-making.
13. *rīsmān-farūshī* = a tax on selling ropes.
14. *rūghangarī* = a tax on oil-making.
15. *nakhūd-i-biryān* = a tax on parched gram.
16. *tah-bāzārī* = a tax on stall-keepers on public land (used in this sense in parts of North India even to-day).
17. *jhabbah* = This is probably *chhappah*, meaning print. A tax on printed cloth. *Jhabbah* may mean a basket and the tax might be on petty hawkers of fruit and vegetables who carry their wares in baskets or it might have been levied from the makers of such baskets. The printed text has *chhattah* which means a covered passage. When a citizen owns property on either side of a lane, he may connect the two by building a roof like a bridge between the two. Such a structure is called a chhattah and this tax might be on such buildings. This reading is however unlikely.