The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c21.11

c21.11

The *diraʿh* may be safely assumed to be the same as the *gaz-i-ilāhī*, which has been found to be, as nearly as could be ascertained, 33 inches in length (Elliot, “Supp. Gloss.” 480, under “Ilahi Guz”, and 229, under “Coss”, see also Prinsep, “Useful Tables”, Calcutta, 1834, p. 88, 89). Thus the length of one *jarībī* kos would be 4583½ yards or 2.6 miles; and 7 kos equals 18.2 miles. The reputed (*rasamī*) kos was shorter, one *jarībī* equalled 1.71 *rasamī* kos, and the *rasamī* kos was thus 1.52 miles in length. But this latter kos varies greatly in different parts of the country.