The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c9.43

c9.43

The other pieces of armour for the horse were the frontlet (qashqah: Āīn, 112, Nº. 74, and plate xiv, Nº. 60) and the neck-piece (gardani: Āīn, 112, Nº. 75). Blochmann’s description of the latter (p. 112, note 3) does not seem very appropriate, as he makes it a thing which hangs down in front of the horse's chest. *Gardani*, however, is the name still applied to the head and neck-piece, the hood, of a set of horse-clothing. It is the neck-shaped piece in figure No. 58 of Blochmann's plate xiv, and is separately shown in Egerton's plate i, figure No. 3. *Qashqah* is the word used in Persian for the Hindu sect-mark or *tilak*, applied on the centre of the forehead. R. B. Shaw, J. A. S. Bengal for 1878, p. 144, gives *qashqah* as the Eastern Turkī for an animal's forehead.