Mughal Administration c7.s3.9

c7.s3.9

∗ The procedure will become clear from the full description of it given in the *Ain* (i. 258-259) :—His Majesty has appointed fourteen clerks [*wāqia-navis.*] Their duty is to write down the orders and doings of His Majesty and whatever the heads of the departments report...appointments to mansabs, salaries, jagirs, grants of cash or land [in charity], the issue of orders,...battles, deaths,...the reports of events. After the diary has been corrected by one of His Majesty’s servants, it is laid before the Emperor, and approved by him. The clerk then makes a copy of each report...and hands it over to those who require it as a voucher, when it is also signed by......that person who laid it before His Majesty. The report in this state is called *yād-dāsht* or memorandum.