New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 15
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Firuzkuh 15
Afghanistan National Archives
Firuzkuh Papers
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Petition

Physical Description

paper
18 fold lines, complete, black ink; pasted into Mirza Khwaja Muhammad’s notebook below a scrap of two lines, of which the first line is a basmala.
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Content

A petition for a certain lord, titled Najm al-Dawla wal-Dīn, to pay for hay and barley to feed his personal horses. The two top lines of recto are unrelated to the letter, and concern sheep divided amongst the diwan and a local raʾīs.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: None
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People

  • Zangī (the shiḥna)
  • Najm al-Dawla wal-Dīn
  • Muḥammad b. ʿUmar

Publications

  • Khwaja Muhammad and Nabi Saqee, Barg-hāy az yak faṣl, yā asnād-i tārīkhī-yi Ghur (Kabul: Saʿīd 1388/2009) (Pages: 46-47)

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IEDC Data

251
30/09/2024
25/02/2025

Citations

Ofir Haim
Arezou Azad, Nabi Saqee
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Folios
1. recto
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Folio:
خدمتی دیوان گوسفند بیست سر هر دیه دو سر 1
از [+ 2] سلامی دیوان یک سر باقی خرج رییس 2
                 الداعی  3
                 محمد بن عمر 4
     لله الحمد دائما 5
زندگانی خداوند والانعم امیر اسفهسالار اجل 6
 کبیر موید مظفر منصور عالم عادل نجم الدولة والدین 7
 اسد الاسلام و المسلمین فخر الملوک و السلاطین  8
پهلوان الجبال دام اقباله خدمت و عبودیت 9
کمترین کهتران خود بفرماید خواند و دیگر معلوم بران 10
 خداوند بود بسبب اسپان خاص خداوند را  11
 ده روز برین کهترین رها کردند یک من جو کاه ندادند 12
 سه کرت جمع کردند و کس فرستادند اسپان 13
 را باز فرست و شحنه زنگی را معلوم کردیم 14
 گفت مرا با اسپان کاری نیست تیمار نداشت 15
 کهتر پناهی نکرد اسپان بدیه کهترین بفرستادیم 16
 ده روز ازانی خود کاه جو بدادیم بدیه درطخ  17
بفرستاده‌ایم بهزار حیله اگر خداوند اسپانرا 18
 بفرماید تا تیمار دارند والا بفرماید تا باز آرنـ[ـد] 19
ازین کهترین چیزی قاصر نیاید رعیت آن می گویند 20
یک من کاه جو [+ 1] نتوانیم داد ندهند بوجود (؟) 21
احوال (؟) دیگر 22
به خداوندی شحنه را بفرماید تا اسپان 1
تیمار دارد چون کاه جو نمی دهند 2
اسپان ضایع مانند بودن از عمر باد  3
در کامرانی هزار سال 4
به هیچ وجه بدین حیله کهترین اسپان 5
جو کاه نیابند 6
Translation
Folio:
1 A payment (lit., “service”) to the Dīwān: 20 sheep, 2 sheep per village.
2 [+ 3] an advance [+ 1] diwan, one sheep; what remains [is for] the rāʾīs’ expenses.
3                                      The petitioner
4                                  Muḥammad b. ʿUmar
5 Praise be to God forever.
6 [May] the life [be long] of the beneficent lord, the illustrious, great, God-assisted, victorious, triumphant amīr and isfahsālār, 
7 the learned and just Najm al-Dawla wal-Dīn,
8 the lion of Islam and of the Muslims, the glory of kings and sultans,
9 the champion of the mountains, may his good fortune last. He should kindly read this letter of service 
10 from his lowest of low [servants]. It should be known to
11 him that the lord’s personal horses
12 have been left in the care of this lowly one for ten days without a mann of barley or hay given [to feed them].
13 They (i.e, the peasants) met three times, then sent someone [who said], 
14 “Send the horses back [to the lord]!” We informed the shiḥna Zangī,
15 who said, “I don’t deal with horses,” and he left [them] unattended.
16 This lowly one could not safeguard them any longer [in that village], and we transferred them to the village of this lowly one.
17 For ten days, we provided [them] with our own hay and barley [and then] we sent them to the village of Darṭakh,
18-19 with much effort. If the lord could kindly issue an order, either that they (i.e., the people of Darṭakh) look after the horses, or that we send them back [to him].
20-21 This lowly one has cut no corners, [but] the people [in his village] say, “We can’t provide a single mann of hay or barley.” And they will no longer in the present 
22 circumstances.
1 Could the lord kindly instruct the shiḥna to attend to the horses?
2 If they do not feed [them] hay or barley,
3-4 the horses will die. May [you] live in comfort for a thousand years.
5-6 This lowly one has exhausted all options and tricks to have the horses fed with barley or hay.
New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 15: Folio (recto)
New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 15: Folio (verso)
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