The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.43

c12.s1.43

*Top-i-hawāe*. Horn, 28, calls attention to a passage in Khāfī Khān, ii, 226, where this expression is used. He is writing of Sīdī Ya‘qūt in the Dakhin during ‘Alamgīr’s reign (year 1079 H.—1668-9), and he says *o tophāe hawāe ba-ham rasāndah, bar darakht-hāe bastah, waqt-i-shab taraf-i-Dandā Rājpūrī ātash mīdād*. “Having provided some topi-hawāe (air guns?) and having fixed them on trees, at night time fired them in the direction of Danda Rājpuri”. This is all we know of this mysterious weapon.