[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) › 220.3 # The Institutes of Akbar 220.3 The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 220.3 - **Language:** English ### [220.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.220.3) The first card shews a serpent mounted on a dragon, whilst the vazir is a serpent riding on another serpent of the same kind. The remaining ten cards shew serpents, from one to ten. The first six of these twelve suits are called béshbar (powerful), and the six last, kambar (weak). His Majesty has also made some suitable alterations in the cards. Thus the Dhanpati, or lord of treasures, is represented as a man distributing money. The vazir sits on a gandíla, and inspects the Treasury; but the ten other cards of this suit are representations of the ten classes of workmen employed in the Treasury, viz., the jeweller, the melter, the piece-cutter (mufallas-sáz), the weighman, the coiner, the muhur counter, the dánskché (writer) of dhán pieces (vide p. 30, No. 17), the bitikchí of mán pieces (vide p. 30, No. 20), the dealer, the gurgar (vide p. 28, No. 15). His Majesty had also the king of assignments painted on the cards, who inspects farmáns, grants, and the leaves of the daftar (vide p. 260); the vazír sits on a gandalá with the daftar before him; the other cards show officers employed in the Financial Department, as the paper maker, the mistar maker (vide p. 52, Note 5), the clerk who makes the entries in the Daftar, the illuminator, the naqqásh (who ornaments the pages), the jadwalkash (who draws blue and gold lines on the pages), the farmán writer, the mujallid (bookbinder), the rangrez (who stains the paper with different colours). - [Previous: 220.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.220.2) - [Next: 220.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.220.4) - [Up: 220](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.220) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.220.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.220.3) · Pramāṇa