The Institutes of Akbar 160.2.715

160.2.715

Weigh well these facts, but put no question!
These were things of daily occurrence, but notwithstanding all this, His Majesty’s good luck overcame all enemies, so that large numbers of soldiers were not so very necessary, and the Amírs had no longer to suffer from the inconvenient reluctance of their servants.”
Hence the repeated musters which Akbar held, both of men, and of animals, carts, &c.; the minuteness of some of the regulations recorded in the Áín; and the heavy fines imposed on neglectful servants. The carefulness with which Akbar entered into details (kaṣrat), in order to understand the whole (waḥdat)—an unusual thing for rulers of former times—is the secret of his success.
We have not sufficient data to form an exact estimate of the strength of Akbar’s army. We may, however, quote a statement in the Pádisháhnámah regarding the state of Sháhjahán’s army; vide Pádisháhn. II, p. 715.