A.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
			Part I, Chapter X: Answers to Petitions, and Royal Mandates.
f145b	f98b	523	A short introduction. Núshírwán’s order to supply as usual the luxuries supplied to his predecessors, at the petition of the cup-bearer.
”	”	524	Baṭlímús’s reply to the notables of Damascus: the Ṣáḥib Ismá‘íl b. ‘Abbád endorses his view.
f146a	”	525	A clever reply of Kisrá to his sons at their request to be taught statecraft.
”	f99a	526	Another benevolent order of Kisrá about the property of an Indian caravan in Persia.
A.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f146a	f99a	527	Kisrá stops innovations and issues orders to the governor of Ṭabaristán.
”	”	528	Núshírwán’s two decisions: one against a well-known secretary, another for the patronage and protection of an upstart.
f146b	”	529	Núshírwán as the observer of traditions rather than of intentions.
”	”	530	Alexander’s disparaging remark about the huge army of Dárá.
”	”	531	Ardashír’s clever reply to his courtiers about the fault of one of them.
”	f99b	532	Kisrá’s reply to the governor of Rayy, charged with oppression.
”	”	533	Núshírwán hangs a Satrap for disgracing an old noble of his court.
”	”	534	Núshírwán’s administrative genius evinced at the early age of 19.
f147a	”	535	The last advice of Arjásp, the king of Turkistán, to his son.
”	”	536	Famine in Yaman and the Kisrá’s generous offer at the request of Nu‘mán b. Mundhir.
”	”	537	as-Saffáḥ lavishes money on his favourites at his accession.
”	”	538	Hishám b. ‘Abdu’l-Malik’s foresight as shown in his reply to a petition against ‘Ísá b. ‘Adí without reading it.
f147b	f100a	539	al-Ma’mún’s order about the wealth left by ‘Amr b. Mas‘ada.
”	”	540	al-Mu‘taṣim’s similar statement about the legacy of a noble.
”	”	541	Shápúr-i-Dhu’l-Aktáf’s answer to the complaint of the people of Iṣṭakhr.
”	”	542	Núshírwán’s intention to hold a council of 100 wise men, opposed by his nobles.
”	”	543	Núshírwán’s 11,000 pensioners and his unpaid army’s demand against them.
”	”	544	Sultan Maḥmúd’s decision in favour of the army against the civilians.
”	”	545	Núshírwán’s advice to one of his silly courtiers.
f148a	f100b	546	Kisrá’s advice to the invading army at the death of a rebel Qayṣar of Rúm.
”	”	547	‘Abdu’llah b. Yaḥyá Kháqán awaits a lucky moment for forwarding public papers to al-Mutawakkil.
”	”	548	Núshírwán’s angel of victory in the garb of an old man clothed in white garments.
f148b	”	549	Sultan Maḥmúd’s reply to the Wazír at his hint about the reward of 100,000 Dínárṣ to the Amír of Jurján.
”	f101a	550	Amír Naṣr b. Aḥmad the Sámánid’s impartial decision in an acute con­test between two nobles.
”	”	551	Ṭamgháj Khán, the Great, orders the hand of a thief to be cut off.
f149a	”	552	Ṭamgháj Khán Ibráhím ibn al-Ḥusayn ashamed of a peasant whose com­plaint he did not hear.
”	”	553	Sultan Tukush b. Íl Arslán Khwárazmsháh dismisses Bakhtiyár, the gover­nor of Ṭús (a play on the words Bakhti-yár and Ráyi-gán).
”	”	554	The above Sultan orders the remission of taxes for crosssing the river Ámúy.
”	”	555	The same Sultan orders the remission of taxes at the request of the poets of Bukhárá.
”	”	556	Ṣadr-i-Jahán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz b. ‘Umar saves the honour of a foreign scholar in Samarqand.
f149b	f101b	557	Another instance of his generosity.
”	”	558	Sultan [Sanjar’s] reply to a complaint against one of his officials who had built a palace in Raqqa [or Marw].
A.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f149b	f101b	559	Amír Ismá‘íl the Sámáníd’s advice to the invading army of Khurásán.
”	”	560	A Christian monk lodges his appeal for justice through ash-Sha‘bí in the court of ‘Abdu’l-Malik.
”	”	561	‘Amr b. Layth reminded by a sage that life consists, not in years, but in fame. (The poets al-Mutanabbí and Saná’í cited).
f150a	”	562	Ruqayya, an ‘Alawí lady-scholar, of Nishápúr, rebuts ‘Amr b. Layth by reciting a counter-verse from the Qur’án.
”	f102a	563	The eloquent plea of a blind old man in the court of al-Mutawakkil.
”	”	564	Afrásiyáb’s reply to his rivals, the four sons of Farídún.
			The chapter ends without any eulogy.