Mughal Administration c10.s5.6

c10.s5.6

“Concerning other crimes,—the breaking of teeth, the putting out of eyes, the slitting and cutting off of the ears and nose, wine-drinking and adultery, —I ordained that whoever should be guilty of these, or other crimes, they should be brought into the courts of the ecclesiastical and lay judges,—[the exact terms being *Qazi-i-Islam* and *Qazi-i-Ahdas*,—*ahdas* meaning ‘ritual impurity,’ probably an error for *azāb*, ‘torment’]; that the ecclesiastical judge should decide on those causes which are determinable by the sacred laws (*Shara*), and that those which did not fall under his cognizance [*urfi bashad*, i.e., pertain to the public or secular law] should be investigated and laid before me by the lay judge.”