The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c15.29

c15.29

The golandāz (golah, ball, andāz, thrower) or artilleryman, the Degandāz (deg, pot, andāz, thrower) and the Bāndār (bān, rocket, dār, holder) are included in this section, but I have classed them under the head of Artillery. In one battle, that against ʿAbdullah Khān, Khūshḥāl Chand, Berlin Ms. 495, fol. 1013b, speaks of certain men immediately around the emperor’s elephant as qurqchis, there being two kinds, those in yellow and those in red. The word, an unusual one in Indian works, is defined by Steingass as “a gamekeeper, a sentinel over the women’s apartments”.