The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.19

c12.s1.19

The gun *Malik-i-maidān* was cast at Aḥmadnagar in 1548, during the reign of Burhān Nizām Shāh i, by a Turk named Muḥammad, son of Ḥasan. It was first described by E. Moor, “Narrative”, 322, who believed it to have been cast by ‘Ālamgīr in 1097 H. (1685), but the copy of the inscription as given by him, does not bear this out, for it commemorates the capture of Bījāpur in that year, and not the casting of the gun. Moor was told that there were twelve large guns; of these he saw three, two being not cast, like the *Malik-i-maidān*, but made of welded bars hooped round. One of them was called *Lamchharri, which Moor translates “the far-flyer” (perhaps from lamchhar (Shak. 1795), a long musket, lamchharā, adj. tall).