The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c9.44

c9.44

Horse trappings were often most richly adorned with silver or gold, embroidery or jewels. When so enriched they were styled *sāz-i-tilāe*, or *sāz-i-maraṣṣaʿ*. The names of the various articles are as follows (W. Egerton, 155): *paltah* (headstall) and *ʿinān* (reins), *zerband* (martingale), *dumchī* (crupper), *khogir* (saddle), *ūstak* (shabracque), *bālā-tang* (surcingle), *rikāb* (stirrups), *shikārband* (ornamental tassels at corners of saddle). The bow or pommel of a saddle was either *qarbūs* (Steingass, 963) or *qāsh* (id. 947). The former word is used by Shekh Ghulām Ḥasan, (Samīn) Bilgrāmī, in his *Tazkirah* written in 1198 H. (1783); the second, by Rustam ʿAlī, Bijnorī, in his Urdū "History of the Rohelas," written about 1803, fol. 28*a*. Niẓām-ud-dīn (ʿIshrat, Siyālkūtī) in his *Nādir-nāmah*, fol. 50*a*, speaks of *yaltang-posh* as some sort of horse equipment. I have not been able to find out what this was. The list of stable requisites can be seen in *Āīn*, i, 136.