it was to his court that the previously mentioned Sancho Pires, wanted for murder in Goa, escaped and became a favourite artilleryman and cavalry head by the name of Firangi Khan.64 An Ottoman engineer of considerable ability called Muhammad bin Husain also arrived to serve the Nizam Shah, casting for him a famous fourteen-foot-long bronze gun by the name of Malik-i-Maidan, based on technology sourced from Hungary and so heavy that hundreds of oxen and elephants were needed to drag it into battle.
