[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) › 65.2.7 # The Institutes of Akbar 65.2.7 The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 65.2.7 - **Language:** English ### [65.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.65.2.7) The stamens are similarly placed, three of a yellow colour standing round about the other three, which are red. The latter yield the saffron. Yellow stamens are often cunningly intermixed. In former times saffron was collected by compulsory labour: they pressed men daily, and made them separate the saffron from the petals and the stamens, and gave them salt instead of wages, a man who cleaned two pals receiving two pals of salt. At the time of Ghazi Khan, the son of (Kaji) Chak, another custom became general: they gave the workmen eleven tarks of saffron flowers, of which one tark was given them as wages; and for the remaining ten they had to furnish two Akbarshahi sers of clean, dry saffron, i. e., for two Akbarshahi mans of saffron flowers they had to give two sers of cleaned saffron. This custom, however, was abolished by his Majesty, on his third visit to Kashmir, to the great relief of the people. - [Previous: 65.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.65.2.6) - [Next: 65.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.65.3.1) - [Up: 65.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.65.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.65.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.65.2.7) · Pramāṇa