ملخص الجهاز:
But if an officer was absent for some time-unless probably by royal orders-he needed a fresh permit to be able to attend the court again.
The court had certain officers of its own, probably receiving their orders direct from the Emperor.
Under the Imperial News-Writer• in-Chief there was a set of news-writers and a Darogjja-i-Dak Chowki (Superintendent of Posts) attended the court with a large staff of imperial messengers who could at once be despatched to carry out orders of the Emperor.
Sometimes the agents of high officials absent on public duty would present the requests of mofussil officers, usually when these had failed to reach the Emperor through the regular official channels.
On July 3 I, 1689, an order was issued that no revenue papers from the provincial officers were to be received direct in the imperial secretariat but were to be sent to the office of the central DI wan concerned.
Ghusl Kha. na did not radically differ from that done in the Diwcin-i-'Am. The Ghusl Khiina seems to have been a retired place for doing work where the king allowed only certain highly placed public officials to approach him and take his orders whenever he was not in a mood to transact business in the full court.
While Aurangzeb was travelling in the Deccan, court was discontinued, but orders were given that the Diwan, the Khan-i-Saman, Sadr, and Superintendent of Artillery should attend the Emperor and take his orders.