Mughal Administration c14.s2.14

c14.s2.14

Now, here *paga* (which means cavalry) seems to be a mistake for *baqaya* or arrears collected; *bahili* is *bahlah*, a Hindi word meaning the privy purse, (see *Ain.* i. 15); *chhabina* is the Marathi corruption of the Persian word *shabina*, meaning a body of horsemen accompanying a king on the march; and I take it to be a loose translation of *rikab* or the stirrup, which, as we have seen above, designated the Emperor on the march; *fota* stands for the general cash treasury; *daruni* is *andaruni* or the harem treasury.