[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) › 294.2.7 # Storia do Mogor 294.2.7 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 294.2.7 - **Language:** English ### [294.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.294.2.7) The justice meted out by this lord to a man, who supplied his household with herbs and vegetables during his journey to Kashmir, marks equally his uprightness of mind and the profuseness of his expenditure. This man, then, of whom I speak, brought his accounts at the end of the year to the treasurer of this general's household, wishing to be paid for the supplies he had sent in. Having examined the accounts, this official found the amount so enormous that he decided to strike off the sum of eighty thousand rupees. The tradesman could not, and would not, allow this, and carried his grievance before the master of the house, and he on the instant ordered the payment of the whole demand, and forbad all further discussion. Everybody in India knows how dear and scarce essence of roses is; though in some years it is less scarce than in others. Yet neither scarcity nor high cost deterred this general from having his horses rubbed with this liquid as a matter of course. However, a year came in which he was forced to do without this luxury, for none could be found at any price. One of Ja'far Khan's grooms made a profit out of this dearth, for during the years of its abundance he had taken the trouble to accumulate, drop by drop, some twenty-five ounces from the drippings off the horses when he washed them. This poor man sold that quantity at fifty rupees the ounce, which placed him in easy circumstances, to the astonishment of those who heard the story. - [Previous: 294.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.294.2.6) - [Next: 294.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.294.2.8) - [Up: 294.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.294.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.294.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.294.2.7) · Pramāṇa