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[ xxiii ] he (the petitioner ) therefore hopes that a glorious edict may also be granted by our Court ; Therefore in the same manner as before we have granted (to the petitioner ) the above mentioned district as a perpetual Inam. It is therefore incumbent in the present and future managers of the Suba and the above mentioned Sarkar, to exert themselves for the continual and permanent observance of this hallowed ordinance ( and ) to permit the above mentioned district to remain in the possession of the above mentioned person and of his descendants in lineal succession from generation to generation and to consider him exempted from all demands and taxes and all other dues (and ) not to demand from him in respect hereof a new sunnud every year (and ) they shall not swerve from this order. Written.on the oth of the month of Telkand in the Hijra year 1068.
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A mandate of the Nawab, the possessor of holy titles, the fruit of the garden, a worthy successor, the fruit of the tree of greatness, a lamp of the noble family. a light of the great house, the pupil of the eye of grandeur and fortune, the pride of greatness and glory, of noble birgh, the exalted, the praised one by the
