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Rh tolerable accuracy. The curious English reader is referred to my translation of T. S. in the Modern Review for January 1910 and to Manker's translation of Sabhasad.

The growth of his army is thus recorded: at the outset of his career he had 1,200 household cavalry (paga) and 2,000 silahdars or mercenary horsemen provided with their own arms and mounts. (Sabh. 8.) After the conquest of Javli (1655) the number was increased to 7,000 paga, 3,000 silahdars and 10,000 Mavle infantry. (Sabh. 11.) He also enlisted 700 Pathans from the disbanded soldiery of Bijapur (Chit. 33; T. S. 15b.) After the destruction of Afzal Khan (1659) he raised his forces to 7,000 paga, 8,000 silahdars, and 12,000 infantry (Sabh. 27.) At the time of his death (1680), his army consisted of 45,000 paga (under 29 colonels), 60,000 silahdars (under 31 colonels) and one lakh of Mavle infantry (under 36 colonels.) (Sabh. 96-97.) But T. S. states that he left 32,000 horses in his stables, besides 5,000 given to the bargirs. The core of his army was, therefore, formed by 30 to 40 thousand regular and permanently enlisted cavalry in his own service, and about twice that number of infantry militia (hasham), whom he used to withdraw from the cultivation of their fields during the campaigning season only, as in England under King Alfred. The infantry garrisoning his forts were