The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c9.35

c9.35

*Ghughwah.* — This must, from its position in the *Āīn* list, Nº. 55, be some kind of armour, but I cannot identify the word, which is of Hindī form. In plate xiii, Nº. 44, the thing is shown as a long coat and cowl of mail, all in one piece. In Egerton’s plate (Nº. i, figure 4) it is something quite different, of a shape which it is difficult to describe, and for which it is still more difficult to suggest a use. The word seems to have some affinity to *khoghī* or *ghūghī* (see *ante*). It represents the Eastern Hindī form of *ghoghā*, following the usual rule of vowel modification, thus: H. H., *ghoṛā*; E. H., *ghuṛwā*, ‘a horse.’ There being also a slight indication of the diminutive in this form, *ghughwā* would be a small *ghoghā*. There is a chain epaulette shown in one of the plates in Röckstuhl and Gille, which suggests the shape of the *ghughwā* figured by Egerton, and possibly that was its purpose.