The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c5.10

c5.10

(1) Panjah, an open hand, is said to mean the hand of ʿAlī. Taimūr ordered it to be carried before him for a charm and as a sacred relic. It was said that he captured it when he overcame the Siyāhposh tribe. In 1753 Gentil saw four different “pondjehs” (ie. *panjahs*) carried on horseback in Ṣalābat Jang’s cavalcade; they were copper hands fixed on the end of a staff (“Mémoires,” 61).