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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

+Darwesh Gāū+ _Andijānī_—put to death as seditious (899) 30. Shaikh +Darwesh Kūkūldāsh+ _qūr-begī_—at a household-party (906) 131; his death, successor in office, and avengeance 251, 253; [♰911 AH.-1505-6 AD.]. +Darwesh-i-muḥammad+ _Faẓlī_—defeated (910) 241; degraded for not supporting a comrade (925) 405. +Darwesh-i-muḥammad Sārbān+—Mīrzā Khān's envoy to Bābur (925) 402; a non-drinker not pressed to disobey 406; replaces a china cup 407; enters Bābur's service 408; over-pressed to break the Law 410; eats a strange fruit 410-1; at ma`jūn-parties 412, (935) 683; asks a fruitful question (932) 470-1; in the right-centre at Pānī-pat 472 and at Kānwa (933) 565; recals a vow to Bābur 553; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 673. +Darwesh-i-muḥammad Tarkhān+ _Arghūn Chingīz-khānid_—particulars 38; envoy to the Andijān begs (899) 31; his part in the Tarkhān rebellion (901) 62; his death 38, 63; his relationship to Mīrān-shāhīs 13 n. 5, 33, 38, and his kinsman `Abdu'l-`alī _q.v._; [♰901 AH.-1496 AD.]. +Darwesh Sulṯān+ (_? Chaghatāī_)—on Bābur's service (934) 599. +Daryā Khān+ _Turk_, son of Mīr (Shaikh) `Alī Beg—particulars 382; his sons Yār-i-ḥusain and Ḥasan _q.v._ +Daryā Khān+ _Nūḥānī_, _Afghān_—his sons Saīf Khān and Bihār Khān, his grandson Jalāl _q.v._ Mullā +Dāūd+—killed serving Bābur 549; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.]. Sayyid +Dāūd+ _Garm-serī_—receives gifts (935) 633. +Dāūd Khān+ _Lūdī_—defeated by Bābur's troops (932) 467-8. +Dāūd+ _Sarwānī_, see Rāwū'ī _Sarwānī_. +Daulat Khān+, _Yūsuf-khail Lūdī_, _Afghān_, son of Tātār—is given Bhīra _etc._ 382, 383; concerning his lands, Author's Note 383; ☛ a principal actor from 926 to 932 AH. 428; dreads Ibrāhīm _Lūdī_ 439; ☛ proffers allegiance to Bābur (929?) 439, 440; ☛ his gift of an Indian fruit decides Bābur to help him 440, 503 n. 6; ☛ his action causes the return to Kābul of Bābur's fourth expedition into Hindūstān 442; his strength and action 443-4; his rumoured attack on Lāhor (932) 451, 453; negotiates with `Ālam Khān (931?) 455-6; loses Milwat to Bābur (932) 459; his death 461; his sons `Alī, Apāq, Dilawār _q.v._; his relations with Nānak 461 n. 3; [♰932 AH.-1526 A.D.]. +Daulat-i-muḥammad Kūkūldāsh+, see Qūtlūq-i-muḥammad. +Daulat-qadam ?+—his son Mir Mughūl _q.v._ +Daulat-shāh+ _Isfarāyinī_, author of the _Taẕkiratu'sh-shu`arā_—at Taẕkir`atu'sh the battle of Chīkmān-sarāī (876) 46 n. 2; [♰895 AH.-1490 AD.?]. +Daulat-sulṯān Khānīm+, _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, daughter of Yūnas Khān and Shāh Begīm—particulars 24; her long family separation (907) 149; meets her brother Aḥmad (908) 159; married as a captive by Tīmūr _Aūz-beg_ (909) 24; rejoins Bābur (917) _ib._ and 358 n. 1; letters from her reach Bābur (925) 409; sends letters and gifts to him (932) 446. +Dāwā Khān+, _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_—-mentioned in Yūnas Khān's genealogy 19; [♰706 +AH.+-1306-7 AD.]. +Dejal+, the false Messiah 563 n. 1. +Deo Sulṯān?+, see Div. Rāja +Dharmankat+ _Gūālīārī_—stirs trouble (933) 539; lays siege to Gūālīār 557. +Dharm-deo+—his force at Kānwa (933) 562. +Dilāwar Khān+ _Yūsuf-khail Lūdī_, _Afghān_, son of Daulat Khān—☛ ill-received by Ibrāhīm _Lūdī_ (929?) 439; ☛ goes to Kābul to ask help from Bābur 439-40; imprisoned by his father (931) 442, 443; escapes and joins `Ālam Khān 455, 456; joins Bābur 457, 461; location of his mother's family 462; does not sit in Bābur's presence 466; entrusted by Bābur with care for the corpse of Ibrāhīm _Lūdī_ 474 n. 1; in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 567 (here styled Khān-i-khānān); [♰946 AH.-1539 AD.]. +Dil-dār Begīm+ (? Ṣālḥa-sulṯān 3rd daughter of Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ and Pasha), wife of Bābur—her unborn child forcibly adopted (925) 347, and App. L; her son Alwar (Alūr)'s death (935) 689 n. 5; particulars 712-4; her sons Hind-āl and Alūr, her daughters Gul-rang, Gul-chihra and Gul-badan _q.v._ +Dilpat Rāo+—killed at Kānwa 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.]. +Div Sulṯān+ _Rūmlū_ (or Deo)—recaptures Balkh (cir. 919) 363; particulars 635 n. 2; his servant describes the battle of Jām (935) 635-6. +Dīwa Hindū+, son of Sīktū—waits on Bābur in Bhīra (925) 382; made prisoner and ransomed 399. +Dīwāna+ _jāma-bāf_—put to retaliatory death 73; [♰903 AH.-1497 AD.]. +Bābā Dost+—put in charge of Humāyūn's Trans-Indus district (925) 391; conveys wine to Bābur's camp (933) 551 (here _sūchī_).[2896] +Dost+, son of Muḥammad Bāqir—drunk (925) 415. +Dost-anjū+?[2897] +Shaikh+, son of Bābā `Alī—left in charge of Ghaznī (911) 307. +Dost Beg+ _Mughūl_, son of Bābā Qashqa and brother (p. 588) of Shāh Muḥammad—at a social gathering and sent to Bhīra 388 (here _muhrdār_); made a _dīwān_ (932) 476; in charge of Bīāna (933) 539 and made its _shiqdār_ 579 (here Lord-of-the Gate); in the right centre at Kānwa 565, 569; waits on Bābur 581; pursues rebels (934) 601 (here Dost-i-muḥammad); in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 673; for his kinsmen see _s.n._ Bābā Qashqa. Khwāja +Dost-i-khāwand+—lets himself down over the wall of Qandahār (913) 343; at boat-parties (925) 385, 388; comes from Kābul to Āgra (933) 544; in the left-centre at Kānwa 565; ☛ sent on Bābur's family affairs to Humāyūn in Badakhshān (934) 603; delayed in Kābul till Kāmrān's arrival 618 and nn. 2-6; his letters reach Bābur (935) 618. +Dost-kīldī+ _Mughūl_—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335. +Dost-i-nāṣir Beg+—Dost Beg—(Nāṣir's Dost), son of Nāṣir—enters Bābur's service (904) 103; on service (906) 131, (908) 163, 165; one of three standing by Bābur 166, 167, 396; with him at Akhsī 174, 396; one of the eight in the flight 177, 396; at the recapture of Kābul (912) 315; in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335, 338; at Tāshkīnt (918) ☛ 356 n. 1, ☛ 358, 396-7; opposing rebels (921) ☛ 364, 397; leading the left at Bajaur (925) 368 (here first styled Beg), 369, 370, 397; his revenue work 384; at wine parties 387, 388; at Parhāla 390; attacked by fever 394; his death and his burial at Ghaznī 395-6; his brother Mīrīm _q.v._; particulars 395-7; [♰925 AH.-1519 AD.]. +Dost+ _Sar-i-pulī_, _pīāda_ and (later) _kotwāl_—attacks Bābur blindly (912) 316-7; wounded (913) 324; [♰913 AH.-1507 AD.]. +Dost-i-yāsīn-khair+—wrestles well with eight in successive (935) 653; 656. +Dūdū Bībī+, widow of Bihār Khān _Bihārī_—news of her bringing her son to Bābur (935) 664; encouraging letters sent to her 665; Sher Khān _Sūr _her co-guardian for her son 664 n. 2; her son Jalālu'd-dīn _Nuḥānī_ _q.v._ +Faghfūr Dīwān+—on service (933) 551; his servants sent for fruit to Kābul (935) 687. Ḥai. MS. reads Maghfūr. +Fajji+ _Gāgīānī_, _Afghān_—guides Bābur's first passage of the Khaibar (910) 229. +Fakhrū'n-nisā'+, daughter of Bābur and `Āyisha—died an infant 35-6, 136; [♰906 AH.-1500-1 AD.]. +Faqī-i-`alī+—reprieved (914) 345; with Bābur and left in charge of Balkh (923) 463; ☛ left in charge of Qila`i-ẕafar by Humāyūn (936) 695. +Farīd Khān+ _Nuḥānī_, _Afghān_, son of Naṣīr—writes dutifully to Bābur (935) 659. +Farīdūn+, (an ancient Shāh of Persia)—mentioned in a verse 85. +Farīdūn-i-ḥusain Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, son of Ḥusain and Mīnglī—particulars 263, 269; [♰915 AH.-1509 AD.]. +Farīdūn+ _qabūzī_—summoned by Bābur (935) 617. Mullā +Farrukh+—placed on Bābur's left at a feast (935) 631; gifts made to him 632. +Farrukh+ _Arghūn_—surrenders Qalāt-i-ghilzāī to Bābur (911) 248-9. Mīrzā +Farrūkh+ _Aūghlāqchī_, son of Ḥasan—mentioned for his qualities 279. +Farrukh-i-ḥusain Mīrzā+, _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Ḥusain and Pāpā—particulars 264; [♰915 AH.-1509 AD.]. +Farrukh-zād Beg+—Bābur dismounts in his garden at Qandahār (913) 337. +Farūq+, son of Bābur and Māhīm—his birth (932) announced to Bābur (933) 536, 689 n. 5; [933 AH.-1526-7 AD.]. +Fatḥ Khān+ _Sarwānī_ Khān-i-jahān, son of `Azim-humāyūn—is escorted to Bābur (932) 534; well-received (933) 537; his hereditary title superseded _ib._; invited to a wine-party _ib._; serving Maḥmūd _Lūdī_ (935) 652; his son Maḥmūd _q.v._; ? a kinsman Daud _q.v._ +Fāṯima-sūlṯān Āghā+ _Mughūl_—first wife of `Umar Shaikh _Mīrān-shāhī_ 17, 24; their son Jahāngīr _q.v._ +Fāṯima-sultān Begīm+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Ḥusain and Mīnglī—particulars 266; her husband Yādgar-i-farrukh _Mīrān-shāhī_ _q.v._; [♰before 911 AH.-1505 AD.]. +Fāẓil Kūkūldāsh+—serving Shāh Beg _Arghūn_ (910) 238; ☛ a good account of him named 443; his death a crushing grief to Shāh Beg _ib._; [♰930 AH.-1514 AD.]. +Fāẓil Tarkhān+—a Turkistān merchant created a Tarkhān by Shaibānī, [Author's Note] 133; his death _ib._; [906 AH.-1500 AD.]. +Faẓlī+, see Darwesh-i-muḥammad. +Ferdinand the Catholic+—his action in 1504 (910 AH.) 187 n. 2 (Erskine). +Fīrūza Begīm+ _Qānjūt_, wife of Manṣūr _Bāī-qarā_ her Tīmūrīd ancestry 256; her children Bāī-qarā (II), Ḥusain, Ākā and Badka _q.v._; [♰874 AH.-1469-70 AD.]. +Fīrūz Khān+ _Mewatī_—reprieved (932) 477-8. +Fīrūz Khān+, _Sārang-khānī_, _Afghān_—on Ibrāhīm _Lūdī's_ service 527; waits on Bābur (932) 527, and on his service 530. Sulṯān +Fīrūz Shāh+, _Tūghlūq Turk_—his servants' dynasties 481, 482; his relations with the rulers of Mālwā 482 (where in n. 3 for "Gujrāt" read Mālwā); [♰790 AH.-1388 AD.]. +Fīrūz Shāh Beg+—his grandson `Abdu'l-khalīq _q.v._ +Gadāī+ _Balāl_—rejoins Bābur (913) 330-1. +Gadāī+ _bihjat_—misbehaves (925) 414. +Gadāī T̤aghāī+—shares a confection (925) 375; at social gatherings 385, 7, 8, 400, 412; rides carrying a full pitcher 386; out with Bābur 404; removes a misbehaving namesake 414. +Gauhar-shād Begīm+, wife of Shāh-rukh _Tīmūrid_—Bābur visits her college and tomb (912) 305; [♰861 AH.-1457 AD.]. +Gauhar-shad Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Abū-sa`īd—visited by Bābur (935) 616. Mīr +Gesū+—finds chronogram identical with Shaikh Zain's 575. Apāq +Ghāzī Khān+ _Turk_, son of Mīr (Shaikh) `Alī Beg—particulars 382; his brothers Bābā Kābulī and Daryā Khān, his son `Alī and his relation Naẕar-i-`alī _Turk_ _q.v._ Apāq +Ghāzī Khān+ _Yūsuf-khail Lūdī Afghān_, son of Daulat Khān—☛ arrested by Bābur (930) 442; moves against Bābur (932) 451, 453; not trusted 455; agrees to help `Ālam Khān 455-6; receives him ill on defeat 457-8; pursued for Bābur 458, 460, 461, 462, 463; Bābur's reproach for his abandonment of his family 460-1; his forts in the Dūn 462; his library less valuable than was expected by Bābur 460; his kinsman Ḥāji Khān and his own son 465. +Ghiyās̤+, a buffoon 400 (where erroneously Ghīāṣ).