APPENDIX C 229 and that the revenue should be demanded from them as from officials with rudeness and severity, 25. but he used to give instructions to them saying, 26. “If you wish to be exempt from the burden of being summoned before the office of the Ministry and that you should not be exposed to pressure and discourtesy, 27. and that your credit as an amir or malik should not be changed to humiliation ‘and discredit, 28. make slender demands on your iqtis, 29. and reserve out of that slender demand something for your own agents, 30. and do not covet the smallest fraction of the pay of the troops. 31. Whether you give or do not give a little of your own to the troops rests with you to decide. 32. But if you expect a small portion of what is deducted in the name of the troops, 33. then the name of amir and malik ought not to be employed by the tongue in respect of you, 34. and the amir who devours a portion of the pay of servants had better consume dust. 35. But if maliks and amirs expect from their own country and provinces a half-tenth or half-eleventh and the one-tenth or one-fifteenth of the revenue, 36. and take the perquisites of iqti-holding and governors, 37. no occasion has arisen to forbid this to them, and to demand it back and to exact it by pressure on the amirs would be altogether deplorable. 38. Similarly if the agents and deputies(7) of the country and provinces should appropriate a half or one per cent. in addition to their salary, 39. they ought not to be disgraced for this amount, and it ought not to be recovered from them by beating and torture and imprisonment and fetters. 40. But if they appropriate considerable sums(8) and write off deductions from the revenue demand, and carry off large sums by way of mutual sharing from the provinces and country, 4I. such treacherous persons and thieves should be given disgrace and humiliation with beating and torture and imprisonment and fetters, and what they have abstracted should be taken from them together with their family stock.”