The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c26.25

c26.25

Ījād, fol. 23*a*, with respect to the same operations, uses a word which I read *chob-sībāe*, and I suppose it applies to these towers. "The besiegers threw up *chob-sībāe*, and drove subterannean passages towards each corner of the fort”. But I am doubtful of this interpretation, as he had just spoken of “mounds of earth raised on the trunks of trees and placed from distance to distance round the fort” i. e. in other words, “towers”. Why then should he refer again to the same thing by another name (*sībā*) in the next sentence?