Ahsham is composed of an infantry, the personnel of the artillery, the artificers, and the attendants on the court. The incident of service, which was common to all these men and caused their inclusion under one head, was the fact that they were all borne direct on the imperial books, and received their pay from the imperial treasury, without the intervention of a mansabdar. The Ahsham were neither mansabdars, tabinan, nor ahadis.