The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c11.s2.2
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c11.s2.2
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¹ The Madras Manual of Ad., iii, 915, has a word *tūpak*, a small cannon, a musket, which I have seen only once elsewhere, namely, in verse 60, line 2, of a Hindi poem on Nādir Shāh by one Tilok Dās (Journal As. S. B. (1897) Vol. LXVI, Part i, p. 10). Of course, in the above form the word would represent the diminutive of *top*, a cannon. But may it not rather be the Indian pronunciation of *tufak* (St. 314, another form of *tufang*, a matchlock)?