The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c10.s2.3

c10.s2.3

The Flail (H. *sānt*) is another weapon that may be classed with the Mace. These are two specimens in the Indian Museum, Egerton Nos 62, 63 (p. 78), and one is shown as Nº. 24 on plate i opposite p. 23. I should also class among maces the *Pusht-khār* or back-scratcher, *Āīn*, i, 111, Nº. 41, made of steel in the shape of a hand. It is shown as Nº. 35 on plate xiii of Blochmann’s volume. The same is the case with the *Khār-i-māhī*, or fishbackbone, of steel spikes projecting from each side of a straight handle, *Āīn*, i, 111, Nº. 41, and Nº. 37, plate xiii. The *Gajbāg* put among weapons in the *Āīn*, i, 111, Nº. 46, and Nº. 39, plate xiii, is only the common elephant goad or *ankus*.