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APPENDIX B
TRANSLATION OF FARMAN NO. 2
ALLAHU AKBAR
The order of Abu Almujaffar Sultan.
(This is a faithful rendering of the original emblem of high office.)
This time by royal grace the emblem of high office has the honour of being promulgated that there is before the present and future governors, Jagirdars, Karodis and politicians of Gujarat Suba and Sorath Sarkar the excellent Farman as a sign of happiness, prohibiting them from killing at any time cows and oxen and she-buffaloes and he-buffaloes and flaying them in the presence of Sevdas (Jain Sadhus ), and it is written behind that excellent Farman that " on certain days in every month one should not long to eat the same. This should be considered as a duty and to be proper. Again complete care should be taken to keep oneself away from hunting or imprisoning (encaging) such animals as may have built their nests in houses or on trees." Again it is written in that honourable Farman that " keeping in view the veracity of the study of Yoga, the progress and the search of God of Vijaysensuri Sevda, the disciple of Hirvijaysuri, the best amongst the students of Yoga, and the followers of his faith, who have acquired the honour of our audience and who are the true well-wishers of our Court, (it is ordered) that none should put up in their temples or Upashrayas or scorn them, and if they be on the path of being dilapidated, and so if any one of those believing in the same or having affection for the same or donating for the same should get them repaired or lay their foundation-stones, none
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