[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) › 202.5 # Storia do Mogor 202.5 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 202.5 - **Language:** English ### [202.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.202.5) Every day one thousand rupees are disbursed for the expenses of the king's kitchen, and the officials are required to furnish therefrom all that is necessary. They have to lay before the prince a fixed number of ragouts and different dishes in vessels of China porcelain placed on gold stands. As a great favour the king sends of these, or of what is left over, to the queens and princesses and the captains of the guard. This honour is always dearly paid for, since the eunuchs who convey the food never fail to get themselves well rewarded. When the king is in an enemy's country, where provisions are dear, the total expense is disregarded. There must always be produced a certain fixed number of ragouts; so much is this the case that on the march there is no control over the expenditure. But in the mahal the queens, the princesses, and all the other women have their separate allowances. Since I have promised to give a list of the various names, and their different meanings, of the titles that the Mogul kings give to the queens and princesses, to their concubines, to the chief matrons, to the dancing-women, to the singing-women, and to the slaves of the mahal, I think it advisable to begin at this point. The principal names given by the kings to the queens and the princesses, with their meanings, are : - [Previous: 202.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.202.4) - [Next: 202.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.202.6) - [Up: 202](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.202) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.202.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.202.5) · Pramāṇa