The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
Shaikh +Abū'l-wajd+ _Fārighī_, maternal-uncle of Zain
_Khawāfī_—makes verse on the Kābul-river (932) 448;
his chronogram on Al-amān's birth (935) 621;
[♰940 AH.-1533 AD.[2867]].
Shaikh +Abū-sa`īd Khān+ _Dar-miyān_[2868]—particulars 276.
Sulṯān +Abū-sa`īd Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās
Turk_—his descent 14;
asserts Tīmūrid supremacy over Chaghatāī Khāqāns (855) 20, 344, 352;
takes Māwarā'u'n-nahr (855) 86;
forms his Corps of Braves 28, 50;
a single combat in his presence (857) 50;
defeats Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (868) 259;
a swift courier to him 25;
joined by the Black-sheep Turkmāns (872) 49;
orders the Hindūstān army mobilized 46;
defeated and killed by the White-sheep Turkmāns (873) 25, 46, 49;
appointments named 24, 37;
his banishment of Nawā'ī 271;
reserves a Chaghatāī wife for a son 21, 36;
his Badakhshī wife and their son 22,[2869] 260;
his Tarkhān _Arghūn_ wife and their sons, 33, 45;
his mistress Khadīja _q.v._;
his daughters Pāyanda-sulṯān, Shahr-bānū, Rābi`a-sulṯān,
Khadīja-sulṯān, Fakhr-i-jahān, Apāq-sulṯān, Āq Begīm _q.v._;
retainers named as his `Alī-dost _Sāghārīchī_, Muḥammad Barandūq,
Aūrūs, and Ẕū'n-nūn _Arghūn_ _q.v._;
his marriage connection Nūyān _Tīrmīẕī_ _q.v._;
[♰873 AH.-1469 AD.].
+Abū-sa`īd Pūrān+, see Jamālu'd-dīn.
+Abū-sa`īd Sulṯān+ _Auzbeg-Shaibān_, _Chīngīz-khānid_, son of
Kūchūm—☛ at Ghaj-davān (918) 360;
at Jām (935) 622, 636;
sends an envoy to Bābur 631, 632, 641;
[♰940 AH.-1533-4 AD.].
Shaikh +Abū-sa`īd Tarkhān+ (var. Bū-sa`īd)—his house Mīrzā Khān's
loot in Qandahār (913) 338.
+Abū-turāb Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Ḥusain
and Mīnglī—particulars 262, 269;
his son Sohrab _q.v._;
[♰ before 911 AH.-1505-6 AD.].
+Adīk Sulṯān+ _Qazzāq_, _Jūjī Chīngīz-khānid_ (var. Aūng Sulṯān),
son of Jānī Beg Khān (T.R. trs. 373)—husband of Sulṯān-nigār
_Chaghatāī_ _q.v._
+`Ādil Sulṯān+ _Auzbeg-Shaibān_(?), _Chingīz-khānid_(?),
son of Mahdī and a Bāī-qarā begīm—marries Shād _Bāī-qarā_ 263;
suggestions as to his descent 264 n. 1;
waits on Bābur at Kalānūr (932) 458;
on Bābur's service 468, 471, 475, 530;
in the left wing at Pānīpat 472;
and at Kānwa (933) 567, 570;
ordered against Balūchīs (935) 638;
☛ mentioned as a landless man 706.
Sayyida +Afāq+, a legendary wife of Bābūr 358 n. 2;
her son and grandson _ib._
+Afghānī Āghāchā+, see Mubārika.
Sayyid +Afẓal Beg+, son of `Alī _Khwāb-bīn_—conveys Ḥusain
_Bāī-qarā's_ summons to Bābur for help against Shaibānī (911) 255;
particulars 282;
takes news to Herāt of Bābur's start from Kābul (912) 294;
sends him news of Ḥusain's death 295;
[♰921 AH.-1516 AD.].
+Āghā Begīm+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter
of Ḥusain and Pāyanda-sulṯān—parentage and marriage (or betrothal,
Ḥ.S. iii, 327) 266;
[♰ died in childhood].
+Āghā-sulṯān+, _ghūnchachi_ of `Umar Shaikh—her daughter
Yādgār-i-sulṯān _q.v._
+Āhī+—his feet frost-bitten (912) 311.
+Āhī+, a poet—particulars 289;
[♰ 907 AH.-1501-2].
+Ahlī+, a poet—particulars 290;
(for 4 writers using _Āhlī_ as their pen-name see 290 n. 6).
Sulṯān +Aḥmad+ _Aīlchī-būghā_, _Mughūl_—one of four daring much
(912) 315;
in the left wing at Qandahār (913) 334.
Pīr +Aḥmad+—leaves Samarkand with the Tarkhāns (905) 121;
fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139.
+Aḥmad+ _Afshār Turk_—a letter to him endorsed by Bābur (935) 617.
Mīrzā +Aḥmad `Alī+ _Farsī_, _Barlās_—particulars 273.
+Aḥmad `Alī Tarkhān+ _Arghūn_, brother of Qulī Beg—favours Bābur and
admits him to Qandahār (913) 337.
Mullā +Aḥmad+ _Balkhī_— conveys treasure to Balkh (932) 446.
Mirzā Sayyidī +Aḥmad+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of
Mīrān-shāh—particulars 257 n. 5;
named in a line of descent 280 n. 1;
his son Aḥmad and grandson `Abdu'l-bāqī _q.v._
Mīr +Aḥmad Beg+ _Itārajī Mughūl_, paternal-uncle of Taṃbal—guardian
of a son of The Khān (Maḥmūd) 115;
reinforces Bābur (903) 92;
acts against him (905) 115, 116;
acts against `Alī _Mīrān-shāhī_ 112;
makes a contemptuous speech about Taṃbal (906) 145.
+Aḥmad Beg+ _Ṣafawī_—☛ leads a reinforcement to help Bābur
(917) 353.
Sulṯān +Aḥmad+ _Chār-shaṃba'ī_, see Chār-shaṃba.
+Aḥmad+ _chāshnīgīr_—helps in poisoning Bābur (933) 541;
[♰933 AH.-1526 AD.].
+Aḥmad Ḥājī Beg+ _Dūldāī_, _Barlās Turk_—particulars 25, 37, 38;
his pen-name Wafā'ī and a couplet of his 38;
his hospitality to `Alī-sher _Nawāī_ 38, 271;
drives Khusrau Shāh from Samarkand (900) 51;
supports Bāī-sunghar _Mīrān-shāhī_ in the Tarkhān rebellion (901)
62, 63;
his death at the hands of slaves and slave-women 63-4;
[♰901 AH.-1496 AD.].
+Aḥmadī+ _parwānchī_—on service (925) 377, (932) 458, 460, (933) 540;
sent to surprise Ibrāhīm _Lūdī_ (932) 468 (his name is omitted in
my text);
in the left centre at Pānīpat 472, 473;
his ill-behaviour in the heats 524.
Sulṯan +Aḥmad Khān+—+Alacha Khān+—_Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, son of
Yūnas and Shāh Begīm—particulars 23, 160;
meaning of his sobriquet Alacha Khān 23;
younger Khān-dādā, Bābur's name for him 129;
considered as a refuge for Bābur (899) 29, (903) 92, (906) 129,
(908) 158;
visits Tāshkīnt (908) 159;
ceremonies of meeting 160-1, 171-2;
moves with his elder brother Maḥmūd against Taṃbal 161, 168, 171;
his kindness to Bābur 159, 166-7, 169, 171;
is given Bābur's lands and why 168;
retires from Andijān in fear of Shaibānī 172;
defeated by Shaibānī at Archīān (908 or 909) 7, 23, ☛ 182-3;
his death (909) reported to Bābur (911) 246 and n. 4;
his sons Manṣūr, Sa'īd, Bābā (T.R. trs. 160, Bābājāk), Chīn-tīmūr,
Tūkhtā-būghā, and Aīsan-tīmūr q.v.;
his grandson Bābā _q.v._;
☛ followers of his return from forced migration (908) when
Shaibānī is killed (916) 351;
[♰end of 909 AH.-1504 AD.].
+Aḥmad Khān+ _Ḥājī-tarkhānī_ (_Astrakhānī_)—marries Badī`u'l-jamāl
(Badka) _Bāī-qarā_ (899?) 257, 258;
their sons (Maḥmūd and Bahādur) 258;
their daughter Khān-zāda _q.v._
Sulṯān +Aḥmad Mīrzā+ _Dūghlāt_—sent by The Khān (Māḥmūd) to help Bābur
(908) 161.
Sulṯān +Aḥmad Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of
Abū-sa`īd—the lands his father gave him 35, 86;
his brother Maḥmūd taken to his care (873 or 4) 46;
his disaster on the Chīr (895) 17, 25, 31, 34;
a swift courier to him 25;
defeats `Umar Shaikh 17, 34; 12 n. 2; 53;
invades Farghāna (899) 13, 30;
given Aūrā-tīpā 27;
dreaded for Bābur 29;
retires and dies 31, 33;
particulars 33, 40;
referred to by Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (910) 190;
his wives and children 35-6;
an honoured Beg Nūyān _Tīrmīẕī_ _q.v._;
[♰899 AH.-1494 AD.].
Sulṯān +Aḥmād Mīrzā+, _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of
Mīrzā Sayyidī Aḥmad—particulars 257 n. 5;
his wife Ākā Begīm _Bāī-qarā_ and their son Kīchīk Mīrzā _q.v._; 266
n. 6;
a building of his at Herī 305.
+Aḥmād+ _mushtāq_, _Turkmān_—takes Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ to Ḥiṣār
(873 or 4) 46-7.
Sulṯān +Aḥmad+ _qarāwal_, father of Qūch (Qūj) Beg, Tardī Beg and
Sher-afgān Beg _q.v._—defends Ḥiṣār (901) 58;
enters Bābur's service (905) 112;
in the left Wing at Khūbān (905) 113;
holds Marghīnān 123.
+Aḥmad-i-qāsim+ _Kohbur Chaghatāī_, son of Ḥaidar-i-qāsim—with Bābur
(906) 133;
invited to a disastrous entertainment (907) 152;
joins Jahāngīr and Taṃbal 156;
in Akhsī (908) 171;
defeats an Aūzbeg raider (910) 195;
helps to hold Kābul for Bābur (912) 313;
pursues Mīrzā Khān 317, 320;
holding Tāshkīnt against Aūzbegs (918) 356, 358, 396, 397;
a Kābulī servant of his 351.
+Aḥmad-i-qāsim+ _Qībchāq Turk_, (grand-?) son of Bāqī _Chaghānīānī_
and a sister of Khusrau Shāh, perhaps son of Bāqī's son
Muḥammad-i-qāsim (189 n. 3)—holding Kāhmard and Bāmīān (910) 189;
given charge of the families of Bābur's expeditionary force 189;
ill-treats them and is forced to flee 197, 243;
goes to Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ _ib._;
killed at Qūndūz 244;
[♰910 AH.-1505 AD.].
Sulṯān +Aḥmad Qāẓī+ _Qīlīch_—particulars 29;
his son Khwāja Maulānā-i-qaẓī _q.v._
+Aḥmad+ _qūshchī_—seen by the fugitive Bābur (908) 180.
Khwāja +Aḥmad+ _Sajāwandī_—his birthplace 217.
+Aḥmad Shāh+ _Khīljī Turk_—dispossessed of Chandīrī by Ibrāhīm
_Lūdī_ 593;
restored by Bābur (934) 598.
+Aḥmad Shāh+ _Durrānī_, _Abdālī Afghān_—his victory at Pānīpat (1174)
472;
[♰1182 AH.-1772 AD.].
+Aḥmad Tarkhān+ _Arghūn Chīngīz-khānid_ (?)—joins Bābur in Samarkand
(906) 133;
loses Dabūsī to Shaibānī 137;
[♰906 AH.-1500 AD.].
+Aḥmad (son of) Tawakkal+ _Barlās_, amir of Ḥusain
_Bāī-qarā_—particulars 272.
+Aḥmad+ _yāsāwal_—conveys a message from Bābur to the begs of Kābul
Fort (912) 314.
Khwāja +Aḥmad+ _Yasawī_—+Sayyid Ātā+—Shaibānī's vow at his shrine
348, 356;
[♰514 AH.-1120-1 AD.].[2870]
+Aḥmad-i-yūsuf Beg+ _Aūghlāqchī_, son of Ḥasan, nephew of
Yūsuf—managing Yār-yīlāq for `Alī _Mīrān-shāhī_ (904) 98;
dismissed on suspicion of favouring Bābur 98;
probably joins Bābur with his uncle (910) 196;
remonstrated with him for fighting unmailed (911) 252;
helping loyalists in Kābul (912) 313;
saves Bābur a blow 315, 316;
at Bājaur (925) 369, 401 (here Aḥmad Beg);
joins Bābur in Hindūstān (933) 550;
in the right wing at Kānwa 566 (where in n. 1 for "may" read is),
569;
governor of Sīālkot 98.
Malik +Aḥmad+ _Yūsuf-zāī Afghān_, nephew of Sulaimān
_q.v._—particulars App. K.
+Aī Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Maḥmūd
and Khān-zāda II.—betrothed to Jahāngīr. (_cir._ 895) 48;
married (910) 189;
their daughter 48.
+Aīkū-sālam+ _Mughūl_—rebels against Bābur (914) 345.
+Aīkū[2871]-tīmūr Beg Tarkhān+ _Arghūn_—his descendant Darwesh Beg
_q.v._;
[♰793 AH.-1391 AD.].
Sulṯān? +Aīlīk+ _Māẓī Aūīghūr_ (_Ūīghūr_)—his descendant Khwāja
Maulānā-i-qāẓī _q.v._
+Aīrzīn Beg+ (var. Aīrāzān) _Bārīn Mughūl_—supports Yūnas _Chaghatāī_
(_cir._ 830), takes him to Aūlūgh Beg _Shāh-rukhī_
(_cir._ 832) 19;
ill-received and his followers scattered 20;
[♰832 AH.-1428 AD.].
+Aīsān-būghā Khān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānīd_, son of Dāwā—named in
Yūnas Khān's genealogy 19;
[♰_cir._ 718 AH.-1318 AD.].
+Aīsān-būghā Khān II.+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, son of
Wais—particulars 19;
invades Farghāna and defeated at Aspara (_cir._ 855) 20;
quarrels with the begs of the Sāghārīchī _tūmān_ and leads to the
elevation of Yūnas _ib._;
[♰866 AH.-1462 AD.].
+Aīsān-daulat Begīm+ _Kūnjī_ (or _Kūnchī_) _Mughūl_, wife of Yūnas
_Chaghatāī_—particulars 20, 21;
her good judgment (900) 43;
entreats Bābur's help for Andijān (903) 88-9;
joins him in Khujand after the loss of Andijān 92;
and in Dikh-kat after that of Samarkand (907) 151;
news of her death reaches Kābul (911) 246;
rears one of `Umar Shaikh's daughters 18;