[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) › 60.7.5 # Storia do Mogor 60.7.5 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 60.7.5 - **Language:** English ### [60.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.60.7.5) This rule was good, but the following one was nothing more than a piece of diabolical policy. It happened that Akbar had married his daughter to a noble. After a time this son-in-law rose in rebellion with the idea of obtaining the throne, but fortune did not favour him in this enterprise, for he was captured through treachery and beheaded. Thus Akbar bequeathed to his descendants the rule not to give their daughters in marriage. This rule remained in force up to the time of Aurangzeb, who gave his daughters in marriage upon their insisting, as I shall recount hereafter (II., 41). However, although not married, the princesses nevertheless were not without their hidden pastimes. Recollecting what Shera — i.e., Sher Shah — had done to his father, Humayun — that is, he rebelled because he found himself very wealthy — Akbar left it as a law to his descendants that the Pathans should never receive higher pay than four hundred thousand rupees a year, that they were not to be appointed governors, and should only be employed as soldiers. - [Previous: 60.7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.60.7.4) - [Next: 60.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.60.7.6) - [Up: 60.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.60.7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.60.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.60.7.5) · Pramāṇa