The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.28

c12.s1.28

There are some large guns of the Moghul period at Lāhor. There is the Zamzamah (The Thunderer), one of two cast by a man named Shāh Nazīr, by order of Shāh Walī Khān, prime minister of Aḥmad Shāh, Abdālī, (1747—1773). It is of brass and was used, so Muhammad Latīf says, at the battle of Panīpat in 1761, though this is inconsistent with the tārīkh it bears (1179 H. or 1765/6). The fellow gun was lost in the Chināb river; and this one was removed by the Sikh leader, Har Singh, Bhangī, from the village of Khwājah Sa‘īd, two miles from Lāhor, where the Abdālī had his arsenal. It bears an inscription of twenty-two lines, of which the last two are: