The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c29.33

c29.33

Maces (gurz), 73, 79. Madad-i-mu‘āsh (kind of allowance), 3. Mahādajī-Sendhia, 33. Mahallah (parades), 46, 182 n. 1. Mahāṣarah kardan (to invest a fortress), 264. Māhī (a kind of standard), 32. Māhī-o-marātib (kind of standard), 31, 33. Mahratta use of lance, 82. Mahṣūn shudan (to be invested), 264. Mahṣūr shudan (id.), 264. Mahtāb (blue lights), 151. Maimanah (right wing), 226. Mairtah (fortress), 269. Maisarah (left wing), 226. Maisir, al- (divination by arrows), 98. Malbūs-i-khāṣ (emperor's robes), 29. Malchār (mode of approach during a siege), 278. Malk (part of armour?), 68. Manjanīq (catapult), 130. Manqalah (advanced troops), 225. Manṣab, generally, 3, 42; first class, 6; second class, 6; third class, 6; system, 58; system, connection with number of men present, 58. Manṣabdārs, 19, 43; formed an army of horsemen, 57. Manṣab-i-zāt, table of, with yearly pay, 8. Mantlet (tūrah), 146, 278. Marabba‘ (mode of archery), 102. Marātib (kind of standard), 33. March, army on the, 202; description of, 203; length of, 215, 219—222; measurements made of, 216; official day's, 216; forced, 218. Marching through passes, 212. Mārū (parrying shield), 79. Masarī (part of armour?), 68. Mashrūt (conditional pay), 13. Mashrūt-ba-khidmat (id.), 13. Match (falīta), 107. Matchlockmen, 20, 53; rates of pay, 167. Matchlocks, 73, 90, 91, 103; barrels, 106; stocks, 106; hammer of, 106. Measurements of marches, mode of, 216. Memorandum (yād-dāsht), 18, 42. Mewātī (class of infantry), 170. Mewrah (post-runners), 170. Mighfar (part of armour), 65. Military music and the Naubat, 207. Milteq (a matchlock), 108. Mines, 271, 273, 275. Mink-bāshī (artillery captain), 157. Mīr ‘Arẓ (old name of Bakhshī), 38.