Mughal Administration c15.s1.t1.34

c15.s1.t1.34

[*Commentary*, 122b :—If a man owns a land under a fixed revenue, and builds a house on it or plants a garden of trees that bear no fruit, there should be no change in its revenue, the former revenue should be taken. If a garden is planted on a land which was used for cultivation and on which the revenue of culturable land was fixed, and the fruit-trees are placed so close together that no open space is left for tillage, take Rs. 2-12, which is the due (*hāsil*) of gardens, even while the trees do not bear fruit. But in the case of grape and almond trees, the [usual] revenue is taken while they have not begun to bear fruit, and afterwards the due (*hāsil*) of gardens. But if this due of gardens, which is fixed at Rs. 2-12—on the ground that the total yield (? *rab'a*) of a legal *bigha* including the owner's share may reach up to Rs. 5-8—does not reach that amount, then take half the actual produce as revenue.* But if the price of this half-share of the produce be less than As. 4—as, in the case of grain, if you get one seer in five Shah Jahani seers (?)—do not take less [than As. 4.] If an infidel sells his land to a Muhammadan, collect the revenue from the latter, because in truth it was not the latter’s possession.]