[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [State papers](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin) › [Āʾīn-i Akbarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari) › [The Ain i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett) › 160.1.7 # The Institutes of Akbar 160.1.7 The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 160.1.7 - **Language:** English ### [160.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.160.1.7) From the fact that Abulfazl only gives names up to commanders of 200, and the Pádisháhnámah up to 500, we may conclude that, at Akbar’s time, Mançabs under 200, and at Sháhjahán’s time, Mançabs under 500, did not entitle the holder to the title of Amir. To judge from Nizám’s Tabaqát and the Maásir i Rahimi, Mançabdars from the Hazari (Commander of 1000) were, at Akbar’s time, styled umará-ikibár, or umará-i-izám, great Amírs; and I am not quite sure whether the title of Amír is not restricted to Mançabdárs from the Hazárís upwards. Nizám does restrict his phrases ba martabah i imárat rasíd, or dar gurgah (or silk, or zumrah) i umará muntazim gasht, to commanders from Hazárís. The title: Amír ul Umará (the Amír of the Amírs, principal Amír), which from its meaning would seem to be applicable to one at the time, seems to have been held by several simultaneously. Nizám gives this title to Adham Khán, Khizr Khwájah Khán, Mír Muhammad Khán Atkah, Muzaffar Khán, Qutbuddín Muhammad Khán, and to the three commanders-in-chief, Bairám Khán, Mun’im Khán, and Mírzá ’Abdurrahím, the three latter being styled Khán Khánán, or Khán Khánán o Sipahsálár. In the Pádisháhnámah, however, the title of Amírul Umará is restricted to the first living grandee (’Alí Mardán Khán). It is noticeable that Nizám only mentions commanders of 5000, 4000, 3000, 2500, 2000, 1500, and 1000—for lower Mançabs he does not specify names. Abulfazl gives three intermediate Mançabs of 4500, 3500, and 1250; but as he only gives five names for these three ranks, we may conclude that these Mançabs were unusual. This agrees also with the salaries of the commanders; for if we leave out the commands of 4500, 3500, and 1250, we have, according to Áín 30, twelve steps from 5000 to 500, and the monthly salary of a commander of 500 (Rs. 2500) is the twelfth part of the salary of a commander of 5000 (Rs. 30,000). The Pádisháhnámah gives fourteen steps between the commanders of 7000 and 500, and fixes the salary of a Commander of 7000 at one kror of dáms per annum, or 250000 Rs., stating at the same time that the salaries decrease in proportion. The Persian Dictionary, entitled Ghiás ullughát, states that the salary of a commander of 5000 is 1 kror, or 250,000 Rs., and that the salary of a Pançadí, or commander of 500, is 20,000 Rs. per annum, the 12½th part of the former. It would thus appear that the salaries of the Mançabdárs, as given by Abulfazl in the following table, are somewhat higher than those given in the Pádisháhnámah and the Ghiás, whatever may have been the source of the latter. The salaries appear to be unusually high; but they would be considerably reduced, if each Mançabdár had to keep up the establishment of horses, elephants, camels, carts, &c., which Abulfazl specifies for each rank. Taking the preceding Ain and the table in the note as a guide, the establishment of horses, &c., mentioned in the following table, would amount for a Commander of 5000 (monthly salary 30,000 R.) to 10637 R. 1000 ( ditto 8200 R.) to 3015½ R. 100 ( ditto 700 R.) to 313 R. The three classes which Abulfazl mentions for each Mançab differ very slightly, and cannot refer to p. 238, l. 7. - [Previous: 160.1.500\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.160.1.500_2) - [Next: 160.1.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.160.1.p5) - [Up: 160.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.160.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.160.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.160.1.7) · Pramāṇa