ACCOUNT OF THE TWELVE SU´BAHS.

In the fortieth* year of the Divine Era His Majesty's dominions consisted of one hundred and five Sarkárs (division of a Súbah) subdivided into two thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven townships. When the ten years' settlement of the revenue was made (which amounted to an annual rental of three Arbs,* sixty-two krórs, ninety-seven lakhs, fifty-five thousand two hundred and forty-six dáms and twelve lakhs of betel leaves), His Majesty apportioned the Empire into twelve divisions, to each of which he gave the name of Súbah and distinguished them by the appella­tion of the tract of country or its capital city. These were Allahabad, Agra, Oudh, Ajmér, Ahmadábád, Behár, Bengal, Dehli, Kábul, Láhor, Multán, Málwah: and when Berár, Khándesh and Aḥmadnagar were con­quered, their number was fixed at fifteen. A brief description of each is here set down, and an account of their rulers together with the periods in which they flourished, duly recorded.