The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c10.s5.12

c10.s5.12

*Kārd*. This was like a butcher’s knife and kept in a sheath. It was more especially the weapon of the Afghān. For an example, see Egerton N° 750 (p. 144) and the figure on plate xv, where the total length is 2 feet 6 inches, and that of the blade alone 2 feet. This was the sort of weapon with which, on the 8th October 1720, Mīr Ḥaidar Beg, Dughlāt, assassinated Sayyad Ḥusain ʿAlī Khān, Mīr Bakhshī, in the emperor’s camp between Fatḥpur Sīkrī and Amber (Jaipur), Mḥd Qāsim, Lāhorī, *ʿIbratnāmah*, I.O.L. Nº. 252, fol. 348. The author of the *Jauhar-i-Ṣamṣām*, fol. 138a, calls the weapon then used a *chāqchaqī-i-wilāyatī*. This word is related to چاقو, a knife, (Steingass, 386, from Turkish). We have also in the *Āīn*, i, 111, the *guptī-kārd*, or knife concealed in a stick (Nº. 35, and plate xiii, Nº. 29), the whip-shaped knife, *qamchī-kārd* (Nº. 36 and plate xiii, Nº. 30), and the clasp-knife or *chāqū* (Nº. 37 and plate xiii, Nº. 31).