The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c9.19

c9.19

*Chahār-āīnah*. — This is literally ‘four mirrors’: it consisted of four pieces, a breast plate and a back plate, with two smaller pieces for the sides. All four were connected together with leather straps. Steingass, 403, has ‘a kind of armour.’ It is N°. 50 in the Āīn, i, 112, and figure N°. 49 on plate xiii. It is also shown in Egerton, plate ix, and again on p. 144. The specimens in the Indian Museum are N°. 364 (p. 103), 450, 452 (p. 112), 569, 570 (p. 119), 587 (p. 124), 707 (p. 135), 764 (p. 144).