The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c11.s2.14

c11.s2.14

But long after I had given up the search, I came across a word for a gun or matchlock, which I am convinced must be the original of that used by the European writers quoted above. I found this word *qaidūq* in my copy of the *Aḥmad-nāmah* of ʿAbd-ul-laṭīf, a rhyming chronicle of Aḥmad Shah’s reign written at Lakhnau in 1184 H. (1770). The two passages are on ff. 15*a* and 15*b*, the first in the rubric and the second in the text; and they read as follows: