The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c28: Corrections, Emendations and Additions

The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c28

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Corrections, Emendations and Additions

c28.1

Page 7 (six lines from bottom). For "te" read "to".

c28.2

» 48, l. 20, Miskīn, *Tahmāsp-nāmah*, B.M. Oriental Mss. Nº. 1918, fol. 59*a*, states that the *chihrahs* of the *manṣabdārs* were written on red paper.

c28.3

» 49. *The Imperial Brand.* Manucci, Phillipps 1945, part III, fol. 27, says that the imperial brand was of this shape [Figure:], and was impressed on the horse's right flank.

c28.4

» 50. *The Noble's Brand.* Manucci, id., mentions that the nobles had a separate mark, but it was put on the horse's left flank. It consisted usually of the first letter of the noble's name.

c28.5

» 51, (line 2). For "niferred" read "inferred".

c28.7

» 64. The *Akbarnāmah* (Lucknow edition), III, p. 17, lines 10 and 11 from foot, has *dabalghah* (spelt دبلغه). The same passage has the word *pesh-bīnī* for nose-guard.

c28.8

» 76 (line 11). For "scated" read "seated".

» 99 (Add at end of paragraph). D. S. Margoliouth, "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society" for July 1903, p. 491, in an article 'On the origin and import of the names Muslim and Ḥanīf', quoting a story from the *Kāmil*, I, 210, refers to an ancient Arabian custom of giving protection to a stranger by writing on an arrow "So-and-so is my Guest".

c28.10

» 101 (line 26). Delete "to" after "into".

c28.11

» 110 (line 12). For "these" read "there".

c28.12

» 114 (line 9). For "fumaces" read "furnaces".

c28.13

» 117 (line 11). For "more" read "move".

c28.14

» 120 (line 4). For "is" read "it".

c28.15

» 148 (line 21, add at end of paragraph). The expression is also nsed in a Hindī poem (c. 1720) by one Sudisht, line 725, *Mangāe kahak bān sabh Hind ke*.

c28.16

» 188 (line 28). For "tell" read "till".

c28.17

» 192 (last line). For "these" read "there" and for "coops" read "crops".

c28.18

» 205 (line 19). For "these" read "there".

c28.19

» 216 (line 14). For "tho" read "the".

c28.20

» 233 (add under *Caltrops*). In the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, among the oriental exhibits, is a four-pronged caltrop said to have been found on the battle field of Multan (1849). This goes to show that the Sikhs used this mode of obstructing cavalry as late as the middle of the 19th century.