The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c4.s2.11

c4.s2.11

*Kasūr-i-do-dāmī.* — *Kasūr* is, literally, fractions, deficiencies, faults. This item was a discount of five per cent., that is, of two dāms in every forty, and therefore styled “do-dāmī” (B.M. 1641, fol. 37*a*). The origin of this is to be found possibly in Akbar’s five per cent. deductions from the Aḥadī troopers on account of horses and other expenses (*Āīn*, i, 250, line 14). The rate of deduction is differently stated in fol. 58*b*, B.M. 1641, as four dāms in the 100, if the officer drew seven or eight months’ pay, and two dāms in the 100, if he drew less than that number of months.