The Institutes of Akbar 160.1.224

160.1.224

The sixty-six Manṣabs, detailed by Abulfazl in the following table appear to be the result of a minute classification rather than a representation of the Manṣabs which actually existed at the time of Akbar. The table may represent Akbar’s plan; but the list of grandees, as given by Abulfazl himself in the 30th Áín of this Book, only mentions thirty-three—the three commands of the three Princes from 10000 to 7000; and thirty commands of the Manṣabdárs, namely commands of 5000, 4500, 4000, 3500, 3000, 2500, 2000, 1500, 1250, 1000, 900?, 800, 700, 600, 500, 400, 350, 300?, 250, 200, 150, 120, 100; 80, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10. Of the last thirty commands, two are somewhat doubtful (the commands of 900 and 300), as not given in all MSS. of the Áín, though the List of Grandees of Sháh Jahán’s time (Pádisháhnámah, II. p. 717) mentions a command of 900. It does not specify a command of 300, because no Manṣabs under 500 are enumerated in that list.
Abulfazl specifies below the names of all of Akbar’s Commanders up to the Mançabdars of 500; he then gives the names of the Commanders of 500 to 200, who were living, when he made the list. Of the Commands below 200, he merely gives the numbers of those that were alive, viz.,
of Commanders of 150 ............ 53 120 ............ 1 100 (Yuzbashis) 250 80 ............ 91 60 ............ 204 50 ............ 16 40 ............ 260 30 ............ 39 20 ............ 250 10 ............ 224