The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c11.s1.15

c11.s1.15

*Gobhan*. The sling, *Āīn* i, 111, N°. 45 and plate xiii, N°. 38, may as well be included here. The form in Shakespear 1727, is *gophan*. Khāfī Khān, ii, 656, uses the word *sang-i-falākhan* for the slings brought by the villagers who assembled in 1710 to aid in the defence of Jalālābād town against the Sikhs led by Bandah. Steingass, 936, has فلاخن ,فلاخان ,فلاسنگ ,*falākhan, falākhān, falāsang*, a sling.