The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c23.12

c23.12

The most common cry in later times was *Dīn*! *Dīn*! *Muḥammad*! This was used by the Arabs at Nāgpur in 1817 (Fitzclarence, 103). It is what Robert Orme represented, “Mil. Trans.” ii, 339, as “the sound of Ding Mahomed”, or as a contemporary account of the battle of Baksar, Oct. 23rd 1764, says (Carraccioli, “Clive”, i, 57) “when our seapoys observed the enemy they gave them a ding or huzza”. One Mahratta war cry was “Gopāl! Gopāl!” (*Aḥwāl-ul-khawāqīn*, 207a); this is one of the names of Krishn. Another, according to Grant Duff, 109, was “Har, Har, Mahādeo”; these are also the names of Hindu gods.