Storia do Mogor 210.2.4

210.2.4

In spite of all that is said above, I must give warning that the king does not generally pay everyone by the rules that I have inserted. For since there are in his service an innumerable crowd of men with varying employments and duties, he on his side makes many differing rates of pay, giving from a bistī (twenty) and a bistī and a half to some, up to a sadī (hundred) and a sadī and a half to others, going on increasing, to some more to some less, till one hazārī (thousand) is reached. At that point the title of umarā (noble) is given, and from hazārī (thousand) a man rises from rank to rank by gradations. There is still another mode of payment called ruzindar (rozīnah-dār) — that is, pay by the day given to infantry and cavalry. Yet, although they have this name, they are not thus paid: several months are allowed to elapse. Usually in the mahal, or the apartments in which are secluded the women of the king's household, as I have described several times (III. 3-10), all allowances are of this sort, excepting, however, those of the queens and princesses. Of these [allowances], the lowest are of half a rupee; the rest are of one, two, four, seven, ten, and up to twenty and thirty; in this the quality of the person and his merits are regarded. Christians — that is to say, the gunners and the surgeons — are also paid after this manner.