The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c14.12

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*Ṣadīwāl*, *Mirdahah*, *Sāir*. These names follow those of the *Hazārī* in all the official manuals, and may be taken as equivalent to lieutenant, sergeant, and privates. The etymologies are P. *ṣadī*, group of 100, *wāl* H. affix for man, person, possessor; *mir* contraction of P. *mīr*, lord, master, *dahah*, a group of 10; *sāir* P. the rest, remainder, the others, i. e. the common gunners, (Davy and White, “Institutes”, 232). Kām Rāj, *Āẓam-ul-ḥarb*, fol. 120*b*, has the form *ṣadīdār*.