The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c10.s4.19

c10.s4.19

‘Alam I have heard used, but I never met with the two other words. To complete the long list I may as well add the sort of bill-hook or pole-axe, gaṇḍāsā, a steel chopper attached to a long pole, which is the weapon of the modern chaukidār or village watchman.