Later Mughals v1.c6.s6.28
Later Mughals v1.c6.s6.28
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† Utara or dismounting. On quitting their horses the men tied the skirts of their tunics together. Persians in India ridiculed the practice, attributing its origin to the bad horsemanship of the Indians; the Hindustanis themselves boasted of it as a proof of exceptional courage. Memoirs of Delhi and Faizabad (i.e., Tarikh-i-Farrah Bakhsh of Mhd. Faiz Bakhsh) by W. Hoey., Vol. 1., Appendix, p. 7, and J. Shakespear, H. Dict. 30.