[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 202.1 # Storia do Mogor 202.1 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 202.1 - **Language:** English ### [202.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.202.1) Ordinarily there are within the mahal two thousand women of different races. Each has her office or special duties, either in attendance on the king, his wives, his daughters, or his concubines. To rule and maintain order among this last class, each one is assigned her own set of rooms, and matrons are placed over them. In addition, each has usually attached to her ten or twelve women servants, who are selected from the above-named women. The matrons have generally three, four, or five hundred rupees a month as pay, according to the dignity of the post they occupy. The servants under their orders have from fifty up to two hundred rupees a month. In addition to these matrons, there are the female superintendents of music and their women players; these have about the same pay more or less, besides the presents they receive from the princes and princesses, whose names I will record lower down, in order to divert the reader by a little variety. Among them are some who teach reading and writing to the princesses, and usually what they dictate to them are amorous verses. Or the ladies obtain relaxation in reading books called 'Gulistan' and 'Bostan,' written by an author called Sec Sadi Chiragi (Shekh Sa'di, Shirazi), and other books treating of love, very much the same as our romances, only they are still more shameless. - [Previous: 201](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.201) - [Next: 202.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.202.2) - [Up: 202](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.202) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.202.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.202.1) · Pramāṇa