The Army of the Indian Moghuls Its Organization And Administration
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Euqqah'i-dtash. Horn, 29, refers to Budaoni, i, 376, line 7 from bottom, but I think it must be, i, 371, 372. (Ranking, 482). It was at the siege of Kalinjar in Bundel- khand in 952 h. (1545 — 1546). Sher Shah stood near the wall and ordered huqqah to be thrown into the fort. By chance one of these struck the wall and coming back with force broke in pieces, and the fragments falling on the other huqqahs, set fire to them and blew up Sher Shah. This passage does not show whether they were bombs ...fired from a mortar or thrown by the hand; but it is clear that they must have been one or the other. It shows that the projectile itself was called huqqah, a name derived no doubt from some resemblance in shape to the ordinary huqqah used in smoking. Steingass, 426, has huqqah-i-rdash, a kind of rocket used in war. Huqqah were used in 1044 h. (1634 — 5) by the defenders of Dhamonl in Bundelkhand, 132 THE ARMY OP THE INDIAN MOGHULS. Badshahnamah, i, part 2, p. 108. The Central Asian word for the same thing seems to have been qarorah, see Mujmil- ut-tarlH bad Nadinyah, p.
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