Storia do Mogor 210.1.7

210.1.7

Those persons who have six hazaris a month receive annually three millions of rupees ; those who have seven, three million five hundred thousand rupees, coupled with leave to keep a larger and more splendid retinue than others. But they are obliged to do the same duties as the rest, as already described. In the empire there are not usually at one time more than five or six persons who have reached this pre-eminent honour. These are the highest lords, and no subject who is not a prince can rise any higher. Their retinue is as large and as superb as a prince's. The only difference is that the allowances of the latter are much greater than those of the former. Nevertheless, over and above their fixed income, the king rewards them at times, and causes various amounts to be paid to them, under pretext that it is for their betel-leaf, their fruit, or their sweetmeats, and so forth. When the king fixes, or gives orders about, the allowances of a mansabdar or an umara, he does not talk of ' rupees,' but of dams, which is a money of account, of which they make forty go to the rupee. When he fixes the rate of pay of these gentlemen, or he makes any gift, he says they are to give to So-and-so so many thousands, so many lakhs, or so many karors of dams.