Mughal Administration c10.s2.7

c10.s2.7

"All the petitions held up in the crowd assembled in the Hall of Public Audience are brought to the king and read in his hearing ; and the persons concerned being ordered to approach are examined by the monarch himself, who often redresses on the spot the wrongs of the aggrieved party. On another day of the week he devotes two hours to hear in private the petitions of ten persons selected from the lower orders and presented to the king by a good and rich old man. Nor does he fail to attend the justice-chamber, called *Adalat-khanah* on another day of the week, attended by two prïncipal *qazis*." (Bernier, 263.)