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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

his retainers on service (935) 679. +Apāq Bega+ _Jalāīr Chaghatāī_, sister of Ḥusan-i-`alī—a poet 286. Sayyida +Apāq Begīm+ _Andikhūdī_—particulars 267, 268, 269; visited in Herāt by Bābur (912) 301. +Apāq Khān+, see Ghāzī Khān. +Apāq Khān+ _Yūsuf-khail_, see Ghāzī Khān. +Apāq-sulṯān Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Abū-sa`īd—one of the paternal aunts visited by Bābur (912) 301 n. 3. +Āq Begīm+ (1), _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlāṣ Turk_, daughter of Ḥusain and Pāyanda-sulṯān—particulars 265; [pre-deceased her husband who died ♰911 AH.-1504 AD.]. +Āq Begīm+ (2), _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_—daughter of Abū-sa`īd and Khadīja—particulars 262, 268; waited on by Bābur (935) 606. +Āq Begīm+ (3), _ut supra_, daughter of Maḥmūd and Khān-zāda II.—brought to join Bābur's march (910) 48. +Āq Begīm+ (4), see Ṣāliḥa-sulṯān. +Āq-būghā Beg+, one of Tīmūr's chiefs—collateral ancestor of Khudāī-bīrdī _Tīmūr-tāsh_ 24. +`Āqil Sulṯān+ _Aūzbeg-Shaibān_, son of `Ādil and Shād _Bāī-qarā_—his conjectured descent 264 n. 1 (where in l. 4 for "`āqil" read `ādil). +Arāīsh Khān+—proffers support to Bābur against Ibrāhīm _Lūdī_ (932) 463; in the left centre at Kānwa (933) 565; negociates about surrendering Chandīrī (934) 594; his gift of a boat to Bābur 663. +Arghūn Sulṯān+, elder brother of Muḥammad `Alī _Jang-jang_—deputed to hold Milwat (Malot., 932) 461. Shaikh +`Ārif+ _Āẕarī_, nephew of Tīmūr's story-teller, see Index _s.n._ Aūlūgh Beg _Shāh-rukhī_; [♰866 AH.-1461-2 AD. _æt._ 82, Beale]. +Arslān+ _Jazāla_—his building of the Rabāṯ-i-sang-bast 301 n. 1. +Asad Beg+ _Turkmān_—joins Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ 279; his brother Taham-tan _q.v._ Khwāja and Khwājagī +Asadu'l-lāh+ _Jān-dār_, _Khawāfī_—with Bābur in Dikh-kat (907) 150; envoy to T̤ahmāsp _Ṣafawī_ (933) 540, 583; has charge of Ibrāhīm _Lūdī's_ mother 543; in the right wing at Kānwa 566, 569. Khwāja +Āṣafi+—particulars 286; waits on Bābur (912) 286; [♰920 or 926 AH.-1514 or 1520 AD.]. +`Asas+, see Khwāja Muḥammad `Alī _`asas_. +`Āshiq+ _bakāwal_—with advance-troops for Chandīrī (934) 590; ordered on service (935) 638. +`Āshiq-i-muḥammad Kūkūldāsh+ _Arghūn_, son of "Amīr Tarkhān Junaid" (Ḥ.S. lith. ed. iii, 359)—defends Ālā-qūrghān against Shaibānī (913) 328; his brother Mazīd Beg _q.v._ +`Āshiqu'l-lāh+ _Arghūn_—killed fighting against Bābur at Qandahār (913) 333 (where for "`Ashaq" read `Āshiq). +Asīru'd-dīn+ _Akhsīkītī_, a poet—his birthplace Akhsī-village (kīt-kīnt) 9-10; [♰608 AH.-1211-2 AD.]. Muhammad +`Askarī+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrīd_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Bābur and Gul-rukh—☛ his birth (922) 364; gifts to him (932) 523, (933) 628; ☛ his recall from Multān (934) 603-4-5, 699[2878]; waits on his father (935) 605; made Commander (_æt. cir._ 12) of the army of the East 628, 637; at a feast 631; takes leave 634; waits on his father at Dugdugī 651; east of the Ganges 654; in the battle of the Ghogrā 668-9, 671-3; waits on Bābur after the victory 674; [♰965 AH.-1557-8 AD.]. +Asūk Mal+ _Rājpūt_—negociates with Bābur for Sangā's son (934-5) 612-3. Sayyid +`Atā+, see Khwāja Aḥmad _Yasawī_. Khwāja Jamālu'd-īn +`Aṯā+—particulars 282 (where in n. 3 for (Ḥ.S. iii), "345" read 348-9). +Atākā+ _bakhshī_ (var. Ātīkā, Pers. Atka)—a surgeon who dresses a wound of Bābur's (908) 169. +Atā+ _mīr-ākhẉur_—gives Bābur a meal (925) 418. Mīr Burhānu'd-dīn +`Aṯā'u'l-lāh+ _Mashhadī_—particulars 285 (Ḥ.S. iii, 345); [♰926 AH.-1520 AD.]. +Atūn Māmā+, a governess—walks from Samarkand to Pashāghar (907) 148; mentioned? (925) 407 l. 4. +Aūghān-bīrdī+ _Mughūl_ (var. Afghān-bīrdī and -tardī)—on service (925) 376, 377; of a boat-party 387; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 671, 672. Sayyid _Āūghlāqchī_, see Murād. +Auliya Khān+ _Ishrāqī_—waits on Bābur (935) 677. +Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Muḥammad Sulṯān Mīrzā—his (?) journey to Hindustan (933) 265. +Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā+ _Kābulī_, _Mīrān-shāhī_, _ut supra_, son of Abū-sa`īd—particulars 95; his earliest guardians amusingly frustrate his designs against them 270; his dealings with the Yūsuf-zāī App. K. xxxvi; his co-operation with Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ against the Aūzbegs 190; his praise of Istālīf 216; his death (907) 185; gardens of his bought by Bābur (perhaps one only) 216, (911) 246; another garden 315; houses of his 247, 251; his Almshouse 315; referred to 284; his joint-guardians Muḥammad Barandūq and Jahāngīr _Barlās_, his later one Wais Ātāka _q.v._; his sons `Abdu'r-razzāq and Mīrān-shāh, his daughter Bega Begīm and daughter-in-law Manauwar _q.v._; [♰907 AH.-1501-2 AD.]. +Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā+ _Shāh-rukhī_, _ut supra_ (Ūlūgh), son of Shāh-rukh—his Trans-oxus rule 85[2879]; receives Yūnas _Chaghatāī_ badly (832-3?) 19-20; defeated by Abā-bikr _Mīrān-shāhī_ 260; his family dissensions 20; his constructions, Astronomical and other 74, 77, 78-9[2880]; his sportsmanship 34[2881]; his murder and its chronograms 85; Bābur resides in his College (906) 142; his sons `Abdu'l-laṯīf and `Abdu'l-`azīz _q.v._; a favoured beg Yūsuf _Aūghlāqchī_ _q.v._; Preface, _q.v._ _On the misnomer "Mughūl Dynasty"._ [♰853 AH.-1449 AD.]. +Aūlūs Āghā+ (Ūlūs), daughter of Khwāja Ḥusain _q.v._—particulars 24. +Aūrdū-būghā Tarkhān+ _Arghūn_ (Ūrdū)—his son-in-law Abū-sa`īd _Mīrān-shāhī_ and son Darwesh-i-muḥammad _q.v._ +Aūrdū-shāh+—murdered as an envoy (923) 463 n. 3. +Aurangzīb Pādshāh+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_—☛ referred to as of Bābur's line 184; [♰1118 AH.-O.S. 1707 AD.]. Amīr +Aūrūs+—☛ flees from his post on Shaibānī's death (916) 350. +Aūrūs-i `Alī Sayyid+ _Mughūl_, son? of `Alī Sayyid—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335. +Aūrūs+ _Arghūn_—his son Muḥammad-i-aūrūs _q.v._ +Aūzbeg Bahādur+ (Ūzbeg)—☛ one of five champions worsted in single combat by Bābur (914) 349 n. 1. +Aūzūn Ḥasan Beg+ _Āq-qūīlūq Turkmān_—his defeat of the Qarā-qūīlūq Turkmāns and of Abū-sa`īd _Mīrān-shāhī_ 49; [♰883 AH.-1478 AD.]. Khwāja +Aūzūn Ḥasan+ (Ūzūn)[2882]—negociates for Bābur (899) 30; his appointment 32; confers in Bābur's interests (900) 43 (where add his name after `Alī-dost's); acts for Jahāngīr against Bābur (903) 87, 88, 91, (904) 100, 101, 102; his servant's mischievous report of Bābur's illness (903) 89; his men defeated by Bābur's allies 102; loses Akhsī and Andijān 102-3; captured and released by Bābur 104; goes into Samarkand to help Bābur (907) 146; his brother Ḥusain and adopted son Mīrīm _q.v._ +`Ayisha-sulṯān Begīm+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Ḥusain—particulars 267; her husbands Qāsim _Aūzbeg-Shaibān_ and Būrān, her sons Qāsim-i-ḥusain and `Abdu'l-lāh _q.v._ +`Ayisha-sulṯān Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī_, _ut supra_, daughter of Aḥmad (Alacha Khān) and first wife of Bābur—particulars 35, 36; married (905) 35, 120, 711; joins Bābur in Samarkand (906) 135-6; her child 136; leaves Bābur 36. Mīr +Ayūb Beg+ _Begchīk_—particulars 50; sent by The Khān (Maḥmūd) to help Bābur (903) 92, (906) 138, 161, 170; his Mughūls misbehave at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 140; claims post in the right wing (_tūlghuma_) 155; his Mughūls confuse pass-words 164; in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334; ☛ vainly tempts Sa`id _Chaghatāī_ to betray Bābur (916) 351; ☛ does not then desert 352, 362; ☛ rebels in Ḥiṣār (918) 362; ☛ dying, repents his disloyalty (920) 362; his sons Buhlūl-i-ayūb, Ya`qūb-i-ayūb and Yūsuf-i-ayūb _q.v._; [♰920 AH.-1514 AD.]. +`Aẕim Humāyūn+ _Sarwānī_—invests Gūāliār 477; his title changed and why (933) 537; his son Fatḥ Khān _q.v._ Mīr +`Azū+, a musical composer—particulars 292. +Bābā `Alī+ _aīshīk-āghā_ (_īshīk_), a Lord-of-the-Gate of Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_—particulars 278; his son Yūnas-i-`alī and friend Badru'd-dīn _q.v._ Bābā-qulī's Sulṯān +Bābā `Alī Beg+[2883]—particulars 27; his sons Bābā-qulī, Sayyidīm `Alī and Dost-i-anjū (?) Shaikh _q.v._; [♰900 AH.-1495 AD.]. +Bābā-aūghūlī+, see Pāpā-aūghūlī. +Bābā Chuhra+, a household brave—reprieved from death (914) 344; on Bābur's service (932) 474, 534, (934) 590, 602; does well in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 671. +Bābā Ḥusain+, see Ḥusain. +Bābā Jān+ _akhtachī_, a groom or squire—Bābur dislocates his own thumb in striking him (925) 409. +Bābā Jān+ _qābūzī_—musician at entertainments (925) 386-7, 388. +Bābā Kābulī+ _Turk_, son of Mīr `Alī, Shāh-rukh _(Tīmūrid)'s_ Governor of Kābul—nominated `Umar Shaikh's guardian when Kābul was allotted to the boy 14; particulars 382; his brothers Daryā Khān and Ghāzī (Apāq) Khān _q.v._ +Bābā Khān Sulṯān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānīd_, (Bābājāk), son of Aḥmad (Alacha Khān)—his ceremonious meeting with Bābur (908) 159; [living in 948 AH.-1542—T.R.]. +Bābā Khān+ _Chaghatāī_, son of The Khān (Maḥmūd)—murdered with his father and brothers by Shaibānī (914) 35. +Bābā Qashqa+ _Mughūl_ (perhaps identical with Qashqa Maḥmūd _Chīrās_ _q.v._)—out with Bābur (925) 404, 405; in charge of Dībālpūr (930) 442; his brothers Malik Qāsim and Kūkī; his sons Shāh Muḥammad, Dost-i-muḥammad and Ḥājī Muḥammad Khān _Kūkī_ _q.v._; [♰_cir._ 940 AH.-1553 AD.].[2884] Sulṯān +Bābā-qulī Beg+, son of Sulṯān Bābā `Alī Beg—serving under Khusrau Shāh (901) 60, 61; with Bābur and captured (903) 72; staunch to him 91; in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335; conveys royal letters (932) 529.[2885] +Bābā Sairāmī+—pursues Bābur in his flight from Akhsī (908) 178; promised fidelity but seems to have been false 179-182. +Bābā Shaikh+ _Chaghatāī_, brother of Mullā Bābā _Pashāgharī_—in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335; ☛ rebels at Ghaznī (921) 363; forgiven (925) 397; deserts Humāyūn (932) 546; his capture and death 545; a reward given for his head _id._; [♰932 or 933 AH.-1526 AD.]. +Bābā Shaikh+—sent out for news (935) 661. +Bābā Sher-zād+—one of three with Bābur against Taṃbal (908) 163; does well at Akhsī 174; fights against rebels at Kābul (912) 315; at Qandahār (913) 335. +Bābā Sulṯān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, son of Khalīl son of Aḥmad (Alacha Khān)—waits on Bābur near Kālpī (934) 590; particulars 590; on service 318, (934) 599; not at his post (935) 672. +Bābā Yāsāwal+—at the siege of Bajaur (925) 370; chops at a tiger's head 393. +Bābū Khān+—holding Kalanjar and looking towards Hātī _Kākar_ (925) 387. Ẓahīru'd-dīn Muḥammad _Bābur Pādshāh_ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, Barlās Turk—b. Muḥarram 6th 888 AH.-Feb. 14th 1483 AD. p. 1; ♰Jumāda I, 6th 937 AH.-Dec. 26th 1530 A.D. 708; +Parentage+:—paternal 13; maternal 19, 21; +Titles+:—Mīrzā (inherited) Pādshāh (taken) 344; Ghāzī (won) 574;