Mughal Administration c7.s3.10

c7.s3.10

Besides, there are several copyists who...receive the *yād-dāsht* when completed, keep it with themselves, and make a proper abridgment of it, called *taliqa*, which is signed and sealed by the *wāqia-navis*, the *risālahdār*, the *mir-i-arz*, and the *dārogha*. They return this *taliqa* [to the man] instead of the *yād-dāsht*. The *tāliqa* is then signed and sealed by the ministers of State.