Mughal Administration c7.s2.12
Mughal Administration c7.s2.12
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c7.s2.12
9. Fines
10. General expenditure (kharch-i-kul)
11. Cattle food (khurāk-i-dawāb)
12. Menial servants (shāgird-pesha)
13. Bahlah. “By order of His Majesty, a person of known integrity keeps in the public audience hall some gold and silver for the needy, who have their wants relieved without delay...His Majesty entrusts to one of the nobility a large sum, a part of which is carried in a purse (called in Hindi, bahlah). This is the reason why such disbursements are called in the language of the country kharch-i-bahlah.” (Ain. i. 15.) [I do not prefer the other reading, Bahlia or foot-musketteers.]