The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c26.14
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c26.14
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c26.14
There was in addition a place upon which Akbar sat and picked off men appearing on the fortress walls. "His Majesty sat upon the top of a building (khānah) prepared for his reception upon the sābāt of his entrenchment (mūrchal). He sat there matchlock in hand". Budāonī, ii, 103, (Lowe 106), here copies and abridges Nizām-ud-dīn: and in describing the siege of Kālinjar in 952 H. (1545), he uses the word sābāt as if he meant by it a sap or trench, and not a tower.