The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c10.s1.2

c10.s1.2

Names of the various parts are (B.M. N°. 6599 fol. 84*a*), *teghah*, blade, *nābah*, furrows on blade, *qabẓah*, hilt, *jāe-narela* (?), *sarnāl* or *muhnāl* and *tahnāl*, metal mountings of scabbard, *kamrsāl* (the belt?)¹, *bandtār* (?). The quality or temper of a blade was its *āb* (water) or *jauhar* (lustre). One name of the belt was *ḥamāil* (Steingass, 430, plural of *ḥimālat*); and Khair-ud-dīn, *‘Ibratnāmah*, i, 91, uses the word thus, in repeating the speech of one Daler Khān and another man to Shāh ‘Ālam (1173 H.), “*fidwī az waqte kih sipar o shamsher rā ḥamāil kardah-em, gāhe ba dushman-i-khūd pusht na namūdah*”: “Since we hung from our shoulders sword and shield never have we shown an enemy our back.” Another word that I have seen used for a sword-belt is *kamr-i-khanjar*, see Steingass 1049; also Budāonī, text, 441, Ranking 566.