The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c23.10
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c23.10
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In another place, Budāonī, i, 335, line 3 from end, speaks of *awāz-i-“Dih” o “Sitān” o “Ba-kash” o “Ba-zan”*, ghostly cries of “Strike”, “Seize” “Slay”, “Smite”, still supposed to be heard after night-fall from the battle-field of Pānīpat. Steingass, 547, has *dih*, strike thou, inf. *dādan*, and 548, *dihādih zadan*, to raise a battle cry. Khāfī Khān ii, 58, speaks of *ṣadāe “Ba-kash!” “Ba-kash” buland sākhtah*, “having raised loud cries of ‘Kill! Kill!’” We are reminded of Michael Drayton’s “Battaile of Agincourt”: