Mughal Administration c10.s6.47

c10.s6.47

28. When courtesans, adulterers, Sodomites, drinkers of distilled spirits and other intoxicants, whisperers (*i.e.*, seducers), apostates, rebels against the qazi's orders, and female servants and slaves escaped from their masters, take refuge with the *mahajans* (merchants) and appeal to the diwani officers in the name of the Holy Law, you should act according to the order of the qazi.