The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c11.s1.11

c11.s1.11

*The finger stall.* This was called *zihgīr* (Steingass 631), bow-string holder, or *shast* (id. 743). It was also styled *Shast-āwez* (Anand Rām, *Mirāt-ul-Iṣṭilāḥ*, fol, 155*b*, 182*a*). Of this last the etymology would be *shast*, the thumb, *āwez*, attached or fastened to, that is, a thumb-stall. Blochmann, *Āīn*, i, 111, Nº. 42, and note 3, says the *shast-āwez* was a weapon resembling the *girih-kushā*, Nº. 43, that is, a kind of spear. He has no figure of it. May he not have been mistaken, and is not Anand Rām’s direct assertion to be preferred?