The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c16.s10.10
The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehlī c16.s10.10
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c16.s10.10
It is obvious that a *do-aspah* was inferior to a *sawār*, a cavalryman, hence a *sawār's* salary should be higher. Besides, these passages read together give us the following grades of service : a murattab, a sawār, a do-aspah. Now we know that a murattab was given 234 tankahs and a do-aspah 78 tankahs ; a sawār's salary should be a sum between these two figures. It seems to me that 156 tankahs was the sawār's pay for the following reasons :—