The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.42

c12.s1.42

*Sarkob*. Horn, 132, referring to the *Akbarnāmah*, iii, 622, line 11, speaks of it as a wall breaker or battering ram. Steingass, 676, has, “a machine erected to overtop a wall, a battery, a battering machine, any eminence which commanded a fortress or houses, a citadel”. Several of these definitions seem to make it the same thing as *sībā*, which we shall speak of a little further on. The word *sarkob* for a battering ram is used by Jauhar, Āftābchī, fol. 16b, when describing the siege of Chunār in 942 H. (1535). Nizām-ud-dīn, *Tabaqāt-i-Akbar Shāhī*, fol. 151b, in his account of the same events calls the ram a *muqābil-kob*.