Mughals - How Tyrannic And Oppressive

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<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Jul 5 2007, 08:08 AM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Jul 5 2007, 08:08 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->शहर प्रतिनिधि, आगरा: आगरा किला में चल रहे संरक्षण कार्य के दौरान मंगलवार को तोप के गोले मिले। पांच गोले पूरी तरह साबुत थे, इनमें से तीन बड़े और दो छोटे आकार के हैं।

Live cannon-balls found in the excavation around Agra fort, at a depth of 5 feet, near the inner defense wall.  Weight ranges from 3 to 8 KGs. 
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The hindi term "sAbut" should be translated as "whole" or "intact" and not as "live", since those cannon-balls probably didn't carry any gunpowder with them. They were just solid iron balls. All the gun-powder was used merely to launch them at high speed at the enemy. Large cannon-balls were useful in breaking down fort-walls etc.

Bombs/shells, with gunpowder inside them, arrived much later.