History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.222

c6.222

¹⁰⁰ Barani, Cal. Text, p. 431. The Bankipur text differs slightly from the Calcutta text and has only the words نیم ده یازده و یک ده پانزده instead of نیم ده یازده. The rest of the passage is identical in both texts. Other MSS. have the same thing with slight alterations. The sense of the passage is clear. What the Sultan's order lays down is a certain percentage allowed to the maliks and amirs as their remuneration over and above what the cultivators had to pay to the state.