The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c11.s1.4
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c11.s1.4
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c11.s1.4
“Gathered archers, gunners, guns, without end.” Of course, this may be simply the reduplication so common in Indian vernaculars, such as *khānā-wānā*, food, *pānī-wānī*, water. Mḥd Qāsim, Aurangābādī, *Aḥwāl-ul-khawāqīn*, 288*a*, and a rather later writer, Khair-ud-dīn (c. 1203 H.), *‘Ibratnāmah*, 105, have *kamāndār* (bow-holder) for archer.