AKBAR AND TECHNOLOGY 15 37. A'in-i Akbari, I, p. 199. 38. By and large the modern drawing Fig. Ill in Alvi and Rahman, op. dt./ p. 8, correctly represents the device, except that the wheel on the cart-axle should be a pin-drum to give greater stability and smoothness of motion to the gearing. 39. A'in-i Akbari, 1, p. 199. 40. A'in-i Akbari, ed. Blochmann. I, p. 126. 41. Upper diagram in Plate XV, facing p. 18. The lower drawing is a modem one and fairly misleading. 42. Ain-i AVbari, tr. Blochmann, I, p. 122. 43. A'in-i Akbari, ed., I, p. 125. 44. A'in-i Akbari, ed., p. 125. 45. A'in-i Akbari, ed. I, p. 125. 46. A'in-i Akbari, ed., I, p. 125. 47. Ibid., p. 126. Jagangir, Tuzuk, ed. Syud Ahmud, p. 199, uses the word atish-khana, fire-chamber, for the priming pan. 48. IESHR, XVII (1), p. 17, & Studies in History, II (1), p. 36. 49. 'The nature of handguns in Mughal India', paper presented at Medieval Section, Indian History Congress, New Delhi, (unpublished). 50. H.M. Elliot and J. Dowson, The History of India as told by its own Historians, London, 1867-77, VI, p. 192. I have checked with India Office MS. Ethe 290. f. 189a-b.