History of India . Livingsor Lordships as he calls them, in their several ranks,from those ** of the Fame of twelve thousand Horse-men down to those of twenty horse, and says therewere altogether three thousand in receipt of suchgrants. The army raised by these mansabdarsamounted to three hundred thousand horsemen, whowere maintained out of the income allowed to theirrank. On their death, all their property went to theemperor, and aU the lands belong to him, but com-monly he dealeth well with their children. The kingsyearly income he estimated at fifty crores of rupees,or over fifty millions o
History of India . Livingsor Lordships as he calls them, in their several ranks,from those ** of the Fame of twelve thousand Horse-men down to those of twenty horse, and says therewere altogether three thousand in receipt of suchgrants. The army raised by these mansabdarsamounted to three hundred thousand horsemen, whowere maintained out of the income allowed to theirrank. On their death, all their property went to theemperor, and aU the lands belong to him, but com-monly he dealeth well with their children. The kingsyearly income he estimated at fifty crores of rupees,or over fifty millions of pounds. The royal treasury LUXURY OF JAHANGIBS COUET 65 contained an infinity of gold plate and jewels, includ-ing five hundred drinking-cups, some of wMch weremade of one piece of Ballace Ruby. The servants,gardeners, grooms, and others, attending upon thecourt, he estimated at thirty-six thousand. There werealso twelve thousand elephants, three hundred of whichwere reserved exclusively for the emperors use. The. A COMBAT TTITH ntON CLAWS. daily expenses of the court were fifty thousand rupees,besides thirty thousand for the harem; or, altogether,£9,000, which comes to three and a quarter millions ayear. Hawkins describes the emperor as far from popularwith his subjects, who stand greatly m fear of him,and ascribes this partly to his preference for Moham- ^^ THE GREAT MOGHUL medans over Rajputs for posts of honour and eonunand,and partly to his innate cruelty. Jahangir took pleas-ure in seeing men executed or torn to pieces by hiselephants, and the dangerous sport of elephant fightswas his favourite spectacle on five days in the was said to have killed his secretary with his ownhand on mere suspicion, and to have flogged a manalmost to death for breaking a dish. He delighted incombats between men and animals, and made an un-armed man fight with a lion till he was torn to last the keepers contrived to tame fifteen younglions, who played before the king, fri
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