Mughal Administration c10.s6.16

c10.s6.16

Apart from the *Fatāwa-i-Alamgiri* or digested code of Islamic case-law, which Aurangzib caused to be compiled by a syndicate of theologians under Shaikh Nizam, he issued a *farmān* to the diwan of Gujrat on 16th June 1672, which gives his penal code in a short compass. I translate it below, using the word ‘chastise’ in the sense of *tazir* or infliction of corporal punishment at the discretion of the judge. The *farmān* runs thus:—