The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c5.21

c5.21

*Āftābgīrī*. — This sun screen (*āftāb*, sun; *gīr*, root of *giriftan*, to take), shaped like an open palm-leaf fan, was also called *Sūraj-mukhī* (Hindī, literally, sun-face). By the Moghul rules it could only be granted to royal princes (*Mirāt-ul-Iṣṭilāḥ*, fol. 3). In the eighteenth century, however, the Mahrattas adopted it as one of their commonest ensigns, and even the smallest group of their cavalry was in the habit of carrying one.