The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c5.22

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*Tūman-togh*. — This is one of the two *togh* mentioned in Akbar’s list, *Āīn* i, 50, and figured on plate ix of that volume. Pavet de Courteille, “Dict.,” 236, has توغ (*togh*), “étendard se composant d’une queue قطاس (*qaṭās*) ou bœuf de montagne (*i. e.* yak) fixée à une hampe, au dessus d’un pavillon triangulaire.” This yak’s-tail standard was not unfrequently granted to officers of rank, by whom it was esteemed a high honour. The *togh* consisted generally of three tails attached to a cross-bar, which was fixed at the end of a long pole or staff.