The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 3.4

3.4

10. General confirmation of mansabs and jagirs. — I issued a general order that the mansabs and jagirs of my father’s servants should be confirmed, and afterwards I increased the old mansabs according to the merit of each individual. He who held ten was not advanced to less than twelve, and the augmentation was sometimes as much as from ten to thirty or forty. The allowance (alufa) of all the ahadis was advanced from ten to fifteen, and the monthly pay of all the domestics (shagird-pesha) was from ten to twelve or ten to twenty. The attendants upon the female apartments of my father were advanced according to their position and connexions from ten to twelve, or ten to twenty. 11. Confirmation of aima lands. — The aima and madad-ma’ash lands throughout my dominions, which are devoted to the purposes of prayer and praise, I confirmed according to the terms of the grant in the hands of each grantee. Miran, Sadr-i Jahan, who is of the purest race of Saiyids in Hindustan, and held the office of Sadr in the days of my father, was directed to look after the poor every day. 12. Amnesty for all prisoners in forts and in prisons of every kind. — All prisoners who had been long confined in forts or shut up in prisons, I ordered to be set free.]