The sovereign had two places of audience; one the _Rózistán_, or “day-station,” in which he was seated on an elevated seat; which place they also called the _Tábsár_, or “place of splendor;” around which the nobles and champions stood in their respective ranks; the other was the _Shabistán_, or “night station,” which had also an elevation, on which the king took his seat. Men of distinction stood on the outside; those of royal dignity were at the door; and next the king was a company standing with weapons of war in their hands. Every one, indiscriminately, had not the privilege of laying his hand on the royal feet; some only kissed the slipper and walked around it; others, the sleeve of the royal mantle which fell on the throne: that person must be in high favor at court who was permitted to kiss the king’s feet, or the throne, or perform a circuit around it. As a brief account has been given of the exterior place of reception, and of the _Rózistán_, or “day station,” we now proceed to write a few particulars concerning the interior place of reception, or the secret night station, or the _Harem_, which is also called the “golden musk-perfumed pavilion.” In the code of _Azar Húshang_, or _Máhábád_, it has been thus laid down: whatever be the number of the king’s women, there must be one superior in dignity to all the rest: her they style “the Great Lady;” but she possessed not such absolute power that the right of loosing or binding, inflicting the bastinado, or putting to death within the night station should be conferred on her: or that she could put to death whomsoever she pleased without the king’s consent, a power quite opposed to law. The _Shudahbands_ also report to the royal presence all the transactions of the Great Princess and of the night station, just as they transmit accounts of those persons who live out of its precincts. If the king’s mother be alive, the supremacy is of course vested in her, and not in the Great Princess. _Salárbárs_, or “ushers with silver maces,” _Jádárs_, or “superintendants of police,” _Gáhnumás_ or _Shudahbands_, astrologers and such like professions, were also met with in the interior residence. Of these women and princesses not one had the smallest degree of authority over the rest of their sex who lived outside of the precincts, nor did they possess the power of issuing any order whatever; nay they seldom made mention of them in the royal _Rozistan_; neither were they called by any fixed title; nor, without urgent necessity, did they ride out in public.