The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c11.s1.28

c11.s1.28

*The Leather Guard (Godhū).* This is mentioned in Egerton, 114, and it was worn on the left arm. That is, I suppose, if the shooter were not in armour, and thus already provided with a mailed glove and steel arm-piece. Hansard, “Book of Archery”, 137, speaks of one as “a quilted half sleeve of common velvet or fine cloth, which protects the arm from being bruised by the chord in its return”. The word *godhū* I have not been able to trace. Two Central Asian arm-guards, one of bone and one of iron, are figured by Weissenberg, l. c. p. 54. They are now in the Ethnographical Museum at St. Petersburg.