The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c11.s2.9
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c11.s2.9
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c11.s2.9
Pārah. Rustam ʿAlī, Bijnorī, in his "History of the Rohelas" (in Urdu), fol. 22a, in speaking of the fight between Donde Khān and Qutb-ud-dīn Khān, grandson of ʿAzmatullah Khān, near Kīratpur in Rohilkhand, says; bandūq ke pārah charte the. Although this meaning is not in the dictionaries, I take pārah to be here the hammer of the matchlock. Platts 258, and Steingass 230, 246, among other meanings give those of "bolt of a lock or door" and "iron mace", either of which could be easily enough extended into “hammer of a gun”.