The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c14.13

c14.13

*Golandāz*. When gunners are specifically named this is the designation they receive, and in the Manuals they appear among the *Aḥshām*. *Golandāz* literally “ball-thrower”, is derived from P. *gol*, ball, and *andāz*, the root of P. *andākhtan*, to throw. We do not know how many men were attached to each gun and it must have varied a good deal, but Horn, 27, suggests sixteen as the average number, by inference from a passage in the *Tuzuk-i-Jahāngīrī* (Lowe, 18, line 9). Aḥmad Abdālī had two men to each *shāhīn* or falconet (Horn, 28, Elliot viii, 398). From Mīrzā Ḥaidar’s account of Humāyūn’s artillery in 1540, it is inferred by Horn, 29, that there was then an average of seven men to a gun (Elias and Ross, 375?).