The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.30
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.30
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c12.s1.30
“After obeisance he exclaimed ‘The dragon shaped, fire-vomiting, cannon’.” Its length is 14 feet 4½ inches and the diameter of the bore is 9½ inches. These are also at Lāhor another large gun made in 1182 H. (1768—9) by Shujāʿat Khān, Ṣafdar Jang, a governor of Multān; it bears the name of *Kohshikan* (The Mountain Destroyer) and weighs 110 maunds (Syad Muhammad Latīf, “Lāhor”, p. 386).