The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c13.44

c13.44

*Pal-i-siyāh*. I find this expression twice at least in the *Aḥwāl-i-khawāqīn* (fols. 209b and 227a); “The *rahkalahs* were filled with *pal-i-siyāh*”, and it is thus either an explosive or a projectile. In another passage in the same work, 62b, the same word is used, where from the context it ought to mean a copper coin: *kharmuhrah, o pal-i-siyāh, o zar-i-sufed o zar-i-surkh*, i. e. a cowrie, a copper, silver coin, and gold coin. Steingass, 254, has *pul*, a small coin.