The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
Firdaus-makānī (Dweller-in-paradise, posthumous) see Gladwin's
Revenue Accounts;
+Religion+:—[2886]belief in God's guidance 31, 72-3, 103-13-37-94-99;
in His intervention 73, 247, 316, 446-51-74-79, 525-96, 620;
that His will was done 55, 100-16-32-34-35-67, 269,
316-22-23-36-37-70, 454-70-71-80, 542-94, 627-28-70;
that He has pleasure in good 331;
that to die is to go to His mercy 67;
reliance on Him 100-08-16-32, 311, 463, 678;
God called to witness 254
and invoked to bless 624;
His punishment of sin 42-5, 449-77 (Hell),
and of breach of Law 449;
His visitation of a father's sins on children 45;
His predestination of events 128, 243-46-53, 469, 594;
—prayer to Him for a sign of victory 440,
for the dead 246,
against a bad wife 258;
a life-saving prayer 316;
+Characteristics+:—ambition 92-7;
admiration of high character 27, 67, 89, 90;
bitterness and depression (in youth)
91, 130-52-57-78;
consideration for dependants 91-9, 158-78-96, 469;
distrust of the world 95, 144-56;
silent humiliation 119;
fairness 15, 24, 91, 105, 469;
fearlessness 163-5-73;
fidelity:—to word 104, 129 (see 118-9), 172-3, 194,
to salt 125,
to family-relation,—filial 88-9, 135-49-57-58-88,
—fraternal see Jahāngīr and Nāṣir,—Tīmūrid 41, 149-57-68,
Chaghatāī 54, 169-72,
Mughūl 27, 119-25,
Aūzbeg 37;
friendship see Nūyān and Khw. Kalān;
good judgment 43, 87, 91, 134-37-55;
gratitude 99, 633;
insouciance 150;
joy at release from stress 99, 134-35-48-81;
bashfulness and passion 120;
persistence 92-7 and _passim_;
promptitude 117, 170;
reprobation of vice, tyranny and cruelty 42-5-6, 50, 66, 70, 90-6,
102-10-25-97, 290
and of an unmotherly woman 125-28;
self-reproach 147;
self-comment on inexperienced action 165-67-73;
dislike of talkativeness 28, 97, 143-92-93;
vexation at loss of rule (_æt._ 14) 90-1-9, 129-30-57;
truth for truth sake 135, 318;
seeking and weighing counsel 73, 100-14-31-41-65-70-73-97-98,
229-30-31-48, 340-76-78, 410-12-69, 524-30-77, 628-39-67-69-82;
enjoins Humāyūn to take counsel 627;
+Occupations+ (non-military):—archery _i.a._ 175;
calligraphy see _infra_;
literary composition see _infra_;
metrical amusements see verse;
Natural History _passim_;
travel, excursions, sight-seeing, social intercourse _passim_;
building 5, 217-9, 375-98,
in Dūlpūr 585, 606-07-42,
in Āgra 642,
in Kābul 646-7,
in Sīkrī 588,
Ajodhyā mosque 656 n. 3, App. U,
Pānīpat mosque 472 n. 1;
gardening and garden-making _passim_;
—Bābur's script (_Bāburī-khat̤t̤_) devised 910 AH. 228,
Qorān transcribed by him in it 228 n. 4;
studied by an enquirer 285;
alphabet and specimens sent to Bābur's sons 642;
_Abūshqa_ account of, App. Q, lxii to lxv;
+Observance and breaches of Muḥ. Law+:—signs of his Sunnī mind
_e.g._ 25, 44, 111, 262, 370-7, 483, 547-51-74-89-96,
in the _Mubīn_ and _Wālidiyyah-risāla q.v._;
his orthodox reputation 711;
his heterodox seeming 354,
and arrow-sped disclaimer 361;
—his boyish obedience as to wine 302,
up to his 23rd year 299, 302-3-4;
for breach see Law and Wine;
+Writings+:—_a._ Verses in the B.N. down to 926 AH. see _infra_;
_b._ First Dīwān 402;*
perhaps containing the _Abūshqa_ quotations 438;
_c._ Diary of 925 and 926 _q.v._ AH. (probably a survival of more)
*438;
_d._ The _Mubīn_ (928 AH.) 426-37-38-49;
quoted 630-31 n. 3;
_e._ Treatise on Prosody (931 AH.)
586, App. Q, lx, lxvi;
_f._ The _Wālidiyyah-risāla_ (935 AH.) 619-20-31 n. 3, (_tarjuma_)
642-3, App. Q, lix;
_g._ The _Hindūstān Poems_ 642, App. Q;
_h._ _Rāmpūr MS._ of 6 and 7. App. Q, referred to *438, 620 n. 6,
642 n. 3;
_i._ Diary of 932 to 936 _q.v._;
_j._ Narrative of 899 to within 914 AH. _q.v._;
+Bābur's verse quoted in the Bābur-nāma+:—(Turkī,) love-sickness
120-1;
the worldling 130;
granting a request 137;
respite from stress 148;
praise of a beloved 153;
the neglected exile 154;
isolation 156;
the New Years 236;
Fortune's cruelty 309;
? Turkmān Hazāra raid 312;
Spring 321;
God only is strength 337;
dealing with tribesmen 393;
greeting to absent convives 401;
message to a kinswoman 402;
his broken vow 449, 450 n.;
reply to Khw. Kalān 526;
disobedience to Law (T. & P.) 556;
Death inevitable (T. & P.) 556 (?);
the Ghāzī's task 575;
to those who have left him 584;
couplet used in metrical amusement 586, App. 2, sect. 2;
fever 588;
Chandīrī 596;
on his first grandson's birth 624;
_Mūbīn_ quoted 637;
Pagan lands 637;
pain in renunciation 648;
an invitation 683;
[Persian,] good in everything 311;
insight of Age 340;
on casting off his Shī`a seeming 361;
parting from Khw. Kalān 372;
a message 411;
satirical couplet 448;
before Pānīpat 470;
Bīāna warned 529.
See Table of Contents, _On Bābur's Naming_.
+Bābur Mīrzā+ _Arlāt_, son of Muḥammad-i-qāsim and Rābi`a-sulṯān
_Mīrān-shāhī_—his Bāī-qarā marriage 266.
`Abdu'l-qāsim +Bābur Mīrzā+ _Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son
of Bāī-sunghar—his sister 265;
his retainers Muḥammad Barandūq and Mazīd _q.v._;
his pleasure-house 302;
[♰861 AH.-1457 AD.].
Bāburī—a bāzār-boy (905) 120.
+Badī`u'l-jamāl Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter
of Abū-sa`īd—waited on by Bābur near Āgra (935) 616.
Badī`u'l-jamāl +Badka Begīm+ _Bāī-qarā_, _ut supra_, daughter of
Manṣūr and Fīrūza—particulars 257, 258;
her husband Aḥmad _Ḥājī-tarkhānī_, their sons Maḥmūd and Bahādur
and daughter Khān-zāda _q.v._
+Badī`u'z-zamān Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā_, _ut supra_, son of Ḥusain and Bega
_Mervī_—serving his father against Khusrau Shāh (901) 57;
defeated 61;
takes offence with his father 61, 69;
in arms and defeated by his father 69, 70;
his retort on Nawā'ī (_q.v._);
goes destitute to Khusrau Shāh and is well-treated 70, 130;
on Khusrau Shāh's service 71;
moves with Arghūn chiefs against his father (903) 95, 261;
gives Bābur no help against Shaibānī (906) 138;
his co-operation sought by his father (910) 190, 191;
takes refuge with his father 243;
has fear for himself (911) 292-3;
joint-ruler in Herī 293;
concerts and abandons action against Shaibānī (912) 296-7, 301;
his social relations with Bābur 297, 8, 9, 300, 2, 4;
courteous to Bābur as a non-drinker 303;
a false report of him in Kābul (912) 313;
irresolute against Shaibānī (913) 326;
his army defeated 275, 327;
abandons his family and flees (1) to Shāh Beg _Arghūn_,
(2) to Ismā`īl _Ṣafawī_ 327;
captured in Tabrīz by Sulṯān Sālim _Rūmī_ (920) and dies
in Constantinople (923) 327 n. 5;
a couplet on his name 201-2;
musicians compete in his presence 291;
his host-facility 304;
his son Muḥammad-i-zamān, his begs Jahāngīr _Barlās_ and Ẕū'n-nūn
_Arghūn q.v._.; joined by Sayyidīm _Dārbān_ _q.v_;
his College in Herī 306; [♰923 AH.-1517 AD.].
Sayyid +Badr+—particulars 276;
safe-guards Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ 46-7;
seen by Bābur in Herāt (912) 299;
(see Ḥ.S. lith. ed. iii, 233).
+Badru'd-dīn+—particulars 278;
his friend Bābā `Alī _q.v._;
his son (?) receives Kachwa (934) 590.
Maulānā +Badru'd-dīn+ _Hilālī_, _Chaghatāī_—particulars 290;
his poet-daughter 286 n. 1;
[♰939 AH.-1532-3 AD.].
+Bahādur Khān+ _Sarwānī_—Bābur halts at his tomb (935) 686.
+Bahādur Khān+ _Gujrātī_, _Tānk Rājpūt_—ill-received by Ibrāhīm
_Lūdī_ (932);
exchanges friendly letters with Bābur 534;
becomes Shāh in Gujrāt 535;
is given the Khīljī jewels 613 n. 1;
[♰943 AH.-1547 AD.].
+Bahjat Khān+ (or Bihjat), a Governor of Chandīrī—Bābur halts near his
tank (934) 592, 594.
+Bāī-qarā Mīrzā+ _`Umar-shaikhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, grandson of
Tīmūr—mentioned in a genealogy 256;
a grandson `Abdu'l-lāh _Andikhūdī_ _q.v._
+Bāī-qarā Mīrzā+ _`Umar-shaikhī_, _ut supra_, son of Manṣūr and
Fīrūza—particulars 257;
his brother Ḥusain, and sons Wais and Iskandar _q.v._
+Bairām Beg+[2887]—☛ reinforces Bābur from Balkh (918) 359;
serving Najm _S̤ānī_ 360.
+Bairām Khān+ _Bahārlū-Qarā-qūīlūq Turkmān_ (Akbar's Khān-i-khānān),
son of Saif-`alī—his ancestry 91 n. 3, 109 n. 5 (where for
"father" read "grandfather");
☛ mention of a witness of his assassination 348;
quotation of his remarks on Ḥasan Khān _Mewātī_ 523 n. 3;
[♰968 AH.-1561 AD.].
+Bairām-sulṯān Begīm+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of
Ḥusain and Mīnglī—particulars 266;
her husband `Abdu'l-lāh _Andikhūdī_, their son Barka _q.v._
+Bāī-sunghar Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī_, _ut supra_, son of Maḥmūd
and Pasha—particulars 47, 110-112;
succeeds in Samarkand (900) 52, 86;
withstands The Khān (Maḥmūd) 52;
the _khuṯba_ read for him in Bābur's lands 52;
his man surrenders Aūrā-tīpā 55-6;
his favouritism incites the Tarkhān rebellion (901) 38, 61;
escapes from Tarkhān imprisonment 62, 86;
defeated by his half-brother `Alī 38, 63;
prosperous (902) 65;
moves against `Alī 65;
retires before Bābur 66;
at grips with him 67;
asks Shaibānī's help (903) 73;
goes to Khusrau Shāh 74;
made ruler in Ḥiṣār 93, 5, 6, 261;
murdered (905) 110;
his death referred to 50, 112;
his pen-name `Ādilī 111;
his sister's marriage 41;
his brother Mas`ūd, his guardian Ayūb _q.v._;
[♰905 AH.-1499 AD.].
+Bāī-sunghar Mīrzā+ _Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid_, son of Shāh-rukh—his servant
Yūsuf _Andijānī_ 4;
[♰837 AH.-1433-4 AD.].
+Balkhī+ _falīz-kārī_—grows melons in Āgra (935) 686.
+Bāltū+—rescues Khalīfa's son Muḥibb-i-`alī (933) 550.
Mullā +Banā'ī+—Maulānā Jamālu'd-dīn _Bana'ī_—in Khwāja Yaḥyā's service
and seen by Bābur (901) 64,
in Shaibānī's (906) 136,
in Bābur's 64, 136;
particulars 286-7;
given the Herī's authors to loot (913) 328;
Bābur recalls a joke of his (935) 648;
two of his quatrains quoted 137;
his musical composition 286, 292;
[murdered 918 AH. -1512 AD.].
+Banda-i-`alī+, _dāroghā_ of Karnān—pursues Bābur from Akhsī (908)
178-9, 180, 181.
+Banda-i-`alī+ _Yāragī Mughūl_, son of Ḥaidar Kūkūldāsh—sent
to reinforce Bābur (904) 101;
in the van at Sar-i-pul (906) 139;
his mistimed zeal (908) 176;
his son-in-law Qāsim Beg qūchīn _q.v._
+Bāqī Beg+ _Chaghānīānī_, _Qībchāq Turk_—his influence on Mas`ūd
_Mīrān-shāhī_ (901) 57, (903) 95;
defends Ḥiṣār for him (901) 58;
acts against him (902) 71;
joins Bābur (910) 48, 188-9;
advises sensibly 190, 197;
leaves his family with Bābur's 191;
dislikes Qaṃbar-i-`alī _Silākh_ 192;