Mughal Administration c11.45
Mughal Administration c11.45
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c11.45
Ninth. The viceroys should not affix their seals to the letters they address to the imperial officers, but only their signatures. The seal and the *panja* (i.e., impression of the palm of the hand dipped in vermillion) on letters and deeds of gift or appointment were proper for the Emperor only. No official, however high, could use them in his letters written to another official, because all of them were equal in status with him in the sense of being equally subordinate to the Emperor. [The rules about the Emperor’s seals are given in *Ain.* i. 52 and 263.]