Note 12 — The Seventeenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession
Alexander Rogers translation
Tarkas͟h-bandān, literally quiver-holders. Apparently the meaning is that the archers who were footmen (see Blochmann, 254, about Dāk͟hilī troops) lost their vocation when guns came into use, and became cavalry soldiers. But the meaning in text may be that the archers took to practising with bows and arrows on horseback. It appears from a Dastūru-l-ʿamal in the I.O., No. 1,855 (E. 2736) that the tarkas͟h-bands were an inferior order of servants receiving 1,000 dams or less a year. They probably were not necessarily archers. ↑