The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c13.42
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c13.42
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*Mahtāb*. On Ḥusain ʿAlī Khān’s being despatched in 1714 against Ajīt Singh of Jodhpur, part of his equipment was 100 *Mahtāb*. I am not sure what these were; but as they are named along with rockets, I presume they were some kind of missile. Steingass, 1352, says *mahtāb* is a kind of firework; and J. Shakespear, 2000, has “a kind of fireworks, blue lights”, he refers to *Qanoone Islam*, where *mahtāb* and *naqtī mahtāb* appear in the Appendix, p. lxiv, under fireworks.