When His Majesty had determined the gaz, the tanáb, and the bígha, in his profound sagacity he classified the lands and fixed a different revenue to be paid by each.
Polaj is land which is annually cultivated for each crop in succession and is never allowed to lie fallow.
Parauṭi is land left out of cultivation for a time that it may recover its strength.
Chachar is land that has lain fallow for three or four years.
Banjar is land uncultivated for five years and more.
Of the two first kinds of land, there are three classes, good, middling and bad. They add together the produce of each sort, and a third of this represents the medium produce, one-third part of which is exacted as the royal dues. The revenue levied by Sher Khán, which at the present day is represented in all provinces as the lowest rate of assessment, generally obtained, and for the convenience of the cultivators and the soldiery, the value was taken in ready money.
| Produce of a bígha of the best sort of polaj. | Produce of a bigha of the middling sort. | Produce of a bigha of the worst sort. | Aggregate produce of three bighas of different sorts. | One third of the preceding being the medium produce of a bigha of polaj. | One third of the medium produce, being the proportion fixed for the revenue. | |||||||
| Md. | Sr. | Md. | Sr. | Md. | Sr. | Md. | Sr. | Md. | Sr. | Md. | Sr. | |
| Wheat | 18 | 12 | 8 | 35 | 38 | 35 | 12 | 38¼ | 4 | 12 |
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| Nukhúd—(Vetches) | 13 | 10 | 20 | 7 | 20 | 31 | 0 | 10 | 13½ | 3 | 18 | |
| Adas—Pulse (Cicer lens) in Hindi. Masúr | 8 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 4 | 25 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 18½ | 2 | 6 |
| Barley | 18 | 0 | 12 | 20 | 8 | 15 | 38 | 35 | 12 | 38¼ | 4 | 12½ |
| Linseed | 6 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 30 | 15 | 20 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 29 |
| Safflower—(carthamus tinctorius) | 8 | 30 | 6 | 30 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 6 | 36½ | 2 | 12 |
| Arzan—Millet (Panicum miliaceum (in Hindi China) | 10 | 20 | 8 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 5 | 8 | 1⅓ | 2 | 27½ |
| Mustard | 10 | 20 | 8 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 5 | 8 | 1¾ | 2 | 27½ |
| Peas | 13 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 8 | 25 | 32 | 5 | 10 | 23 | 3 | 23 |
| Fenugreek, (Methi) | 14 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 9 | 35 | 34 | 35 | 11 | 25 | 3 | 35 |
| Kúr rice | 24 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 56 | 10 | 18 | 30 | 6 | 10 |
The revenue from musk melons, ajwáin (Ligusticum ajowan), onions and other greens not counted as produce, was ordered to be paid in ready money at the rates hereinafter mentioned.