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I am indebted to Major-General Boileau for the particulars of another 
monster piece of ordnance which rivalled, if it did not exceed, the Malik-i- 
Mydan in size. It was known by the name of Zufr Bukh, and weighed 
1460 maunds, or 52 tons; the account is extracted by him from a pamphlet 
in the Hindostanee language, published as a guide to the principal objects of 
interest in Agra, and which was formerly sold by the vendors of objects of 
art and curiosity in that city. The actual date of fabrication does not 
appear, but it was anterior to a.h. 1037, or a.d. 1627. 
“ Written on the gun Zufr Bukii,* * * § which was in the Tort. 
“ The work of the artistf Sooltan Muhammad. Weight of the gun one thousand 
four hundred and sixty maunds, 6f seers.£ 
“Afterwards in the time of. the Emperor Jalal Ordun. Mohammad Ukbar 
Ghazu§ the Poor *tnd Vile. || 
“Sooltan Muhammad abd ool Ghufoor of Delhi, in the year 1037 of the Holy 
Hegira wrote. 
“The Emperor Juhangur, son of the Emperor Ukbar, conquered the Dukhan 
by the favor of God.” 
The last of the guns included in Table II. is in some respects the most 
remarkable of the whole. It is the Tzar Pooshka or great gun of Moscow: 
the largest piece of ordnance, in point of calibre, ever cast. 
The annexed figure of it, copied from a vignette in Dr E. Clarke's 
travels in Russia, shews in what manner it was mounted at the beginning 
of the present century, but I am indebted to Major-General de Novitzky, 
Great gun of Moscow in 1800. 
* Zufr Bukh.; Victory giving, or the dispenser of Victory. 
f The word “ Oostad,” means a person who is master of his art. 
£ Taking the maund at 81 lbs. avoirdupois, the weight of the gun Zufr Bukh would have 
been 52 tons, 1 qr. 17*5 lbs. 
§ Ghazu is a title assumed by the Emperors, as the Conquerors or exterminators of 
infidels, like our Crusaders, only that their idea of an infidel embraces every one not a 
Mahommedan. 
|| Fuqeer, Hugeer, and the like, .are terms of humility, or mock modesty, used by Orientals 
(especially Mahommedans), when speaking or writing of themselves—they mean, poor, abject, 
despicable, vile, contemptible! Not in the sense in which St Paul writes, “Oh! wretched man 
that I am !”—(General Boileau). 
