Mughal Administration c16.s3.27

c16.s3.27

"The prince who was given the power of risāla (mediatorship) used to write his rasālatun on the back of the farman and seal it with his own seal. Below the risala the diwan wrote his mārafat or a note of the fact that the farman was being transmitted through his hands. [Without this note the farmān was inoperative, as the English traders of Surat found to their disappointment, late in Aurangzib’s reign.] Then the farmans were sent to the harem to be sealed with the Auzak seal, of which the Empress had the keeping."