Storia do Mogor 209: Do Bisti — that is, 'Two Twenties.'

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When a man has forty rupees a month in the first class of twelve months, he receives in the year five thousand rupees; in the second class, of six months, seven hundred and fifty; and in the third class, of four months, five hundred. The king fixes these rates according to the merit and the services of the persons, sometimes from favour or caprice, or in many cases from the man's sheer luck and good fortune; for in India, as elsewhere, virtue is not always rewarded.