The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c18.5

c18.5

*Transport.* The means of transport, consisting of elephants, camels, pack-ponies, bullocks, bullock-carts and porters, were only provided officially for the imperial tents and establishments; every one else was left to make his own arrangements. Each soldier did his best for himself. The baggage was known as *bahīr o bangāh* or *partāl*. In Ashob, fol. 265*a*, we find *Partāl* used for the means of transporting, instead for the baggage itself: *Partāl-i-aksare-i-eshān shutarān-i-Bakhtī-i-aṣīl wa khātirhāe, ya‘nī ushturhāe kata‘-i-khūsh-jins-i-Wilāyatī*. *Bakhtī* is the large, two-humped or Bactrian camel.