The Imperial Arsenal contains manufactured, purchased, and presented, guns. Each of them is either long, or short; and these are again subdivided into sádah (plain), rangín, (coloured), and koftkár (hammered) guns. His Majesty has selected out of several thousand guns, one hundred and five as kháçah, i. e., for his special use. First, twelve in honour of the twelve months; each of them is brought back in its turn after eleven months. Secondly, thirty for every week; after every seven days one goes out, and another is brought. Thirdly, thirty-two for the solar days; one for every day. Fourthly, thirty-one kotals. Sometimes there are only twenty-eight. Whenever some of the former guns have been given away, kotals are brought, to supply their places. The order of precedence is as follows: the guns for the month; the week; days; kotals; plain; coloured; koftkár, not handed over to the slaves; koftkár, handed over to the slaves; long ones, selected from péshkash presents, or from such as were bought; Damánaks, selected from péshkash, or from bought ones; such as have been chosen from selections of both. The one hundred and five kháçah guns are divided into seven parts; every fifteen form a kishk, or guard, and are always kept ready by the slaves. On Sundays, two are taken from the first; four from the second; five from the third; four from the fourth. This order is also followed on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. On Thursdays, two are again taken from the first, and four from the second; four from the third; five from the fourth. On Fridays, one is taken from the first; five from the second; four from the third; five from the fourth. So also for Saturdays. In order to supply the places of such kháçah guns as have been given away, five other classes have been determined on: half kotals, fourteen; quarter kotals, seven; one-eighth kotals, four; one-sixteenth kotals, two; one-thirty second kotals, one. When kotal guns are given away, they bring half kotals; similarly, the place of a gun, when given away, is taken by the next; and the place of the last is supplied by one selected from such as have been bought.

One hundred and one guns are continually kept in the Harem. Their order is as follows. On the first day of every solar month eleven guns are handed over to the servants of the Harem, one of each of the guns for the months, the weeks, the days, the kotals, the plain ones, the coloured ones, the koftkár not in charge of the slaves, the koftkár in their charge, the selected long ones, the selected Damánaks, the chosen ones of the selected ones. On the second day only the guns of the months (i. e., ten) are handed over in the same order. For ten days an equal number is sent to the Harem.

His Majesty practises often. When he has tried each gun, he commences from the beginning; and when each gun has been used four times, it is sent away and replaced by a new one of each kind. If guns have been left unused at the beginning of a new month, they are placed last, and the guns for the current month are put first.

An order has also been given to the writers to write down the game killed by His Majesty with the particulars of the guns used. Thus it was found that with the gun, which has the name of Sangrám, one thousand and nineteen animals have been killed. This gun is the first of His Majesty's private guns, and is used during the Farwardín month of the present era.