The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c29.2

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Āb (temper of sword blade), 75. Ablaq (black and white feathers), 97. Absence, without leave, 25. Adjutant-General (Bakhshī), 37. Advance guard of the Centre (iltimish), 226. Advances of pay, 18; recovery of, 18. Āftāb (kind of standard), 32. Āftābgīr, Āftābgīrī, 31, 34. Āgrah, siege of, 294. Aḥadīs, 10, 19, 25, 43, 53; Bakhshī of the, 40. Āhangar (blacksmith), 174. Aḥmadnagar, 268. Aḥshām, 20, 26, 43, 155, 160; three meanings of, 161. Aimāq, 241. Ajaigaṛh, 268. Ājmer, 269. Akbar, his rules for branding, 46; system of making over elephants to grandees, 20; artillery of, 115. Akbarābād, 269. Akhtah Begī (Master of the Horse), 21. ʿAlam (a standard), 31, 32, 34, 85. ʿAlamgīr, artillery of, 116. Aʿlā Shāhī (Exalted Imperial regiment), 44. ʿAlā-ud-dīn, Khiljī, his branding system, 46. ʿAligaṛh, 268. ʿAlighol (class of troops), 164. Alkhāliq (a tight coat), 29, 68. Allahābād, 269; sieges of 1719, 1750, 290. Al Maisir (divining by arrows), 98. Amazons, 165. Ambush, 255. Amīr (noble), 9. Amīr-i-Aʿẓam (great noble), 9. Amīr-ul-umarā (Noble of Nobles), 38. Angarkhah (a long coat), 68. Ankrī-dār (kind of arrow), 98. Ankus (elephant goad), 80. Anṣār-i-maimanah (right wing), 226. Anṣār-i-maisarah (left wing), 226. Appointment of an Officer, mode of, 40. Approach by sap and mine, 273. ʿArābah (gun carriage), 141; use of word, remarks on, 140. ʿArabī (Arab troops), 51. Arabs, 169. ʿArādah-top (wheeled artillery), 140. Arah-kash (sawyers), 174. Arghun (mitrailleuse), 138. ʿĀriẓ (old name of a Bakhshī), 38. Arkalon (a tight coat?), 29. Armandi, treatise on elephants, 178. “Arme blanche”, 73. Armour, defensive, 62, 63. Arms, offensive, 73; “short”, 73. Army chiefly horsemen, 57; strength of the, 59; in the field, 190; on the march, 203; marches, length of, 219. Arrow, 73, 97; and bow, 90; shafts, 97; heads, 98; for practising, 98; symbolical use of, 98 (and see Errata); divining by, 98; declaring war by, 99; from the king's quiver, security for peace, 99; symbol of authority, 99. Artak-i-kajīm (horse-housing), 71. Artificers, 20, 173. Artillery, 113; Babār's, 114; Humāyūn's, 115; Akbar's, 115; ʿĀlamgīr's 116; Light, 133; of the Stirrup, 133, 134; Moveable, 133; personnel of, 152; departments of, 156; Manufacture of, 156; Arsenals, 156; in battle, 230. Artillerymen, 20. ʿArzah-dāsht (report), 254. ʿArz-i-makarrar (Confirming Order), 13, 18, 42. ʿAṣā-shamsher (straight sword), 76. Asīrgaṛh, 268. Aslāḥ (weapons generally), 62. Asnān (spears generally), 81. Assault on forts, modes of repelling 282; repulsed, evacuation after, 284. Assignment of revenue (jāgīr), 14. Astrologers, 202. Aṭak, 269. Ātashbāz (firework-makers), 174. Audiences, parades during, 182. Auditors (mustaufīs), 19. Aunchī (bow), 91. Aurang (throne), 31. Authorities, list of, 301 – 306. Axe, battle, 80; silver, 81. Ayyām-i-hilālī, 19. Azhdaha-paikar (kind of standard) 32.