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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

Mīr +Ghiyās̤+, building entrusted to him (935) 642. Mīr +Ghiyās̤ T̤aghāī+ _Kūnjī Mughūl_, brother of `Alī-dost—particulars 28; enters the Khān (Maḥmūd)'s service (899) 28, 32; [♰ before 914 AH.-1507-8 AD.]. Amīr +Ghiyās̤u'd-dīn+, ☛ patron of Khwānd-amīr and supposed ally of Bābur—killed in Herāt (927) 432. +Ghiyās̤u'd-dīn+, nephew of Khwānd-amīr—☛ conveys the keys of Qandahār to Bābur (928) 432, 435, 436. Sulṯān +Ghīyāṣu'd-dīn+ _Balban_—Bābūr visits his tomb (932) 475; [♰ 686 AH.-1287 AD.]. +Ghiyās̤u'd-dīn+ _qūrchī_—takes campaigning orders to Junaid _Barlās_ (935) 628; returns to Court 636; takes orders to the Eastern amirs 638. +Ghulām-i-`alī+—returns from taking Bābur's three articles to Naṣrat Shāh (935) 676. +Ghulām bacha+, a musician—heard by Bābur in Herāt (912) 303. +Ghulām-i-shādī+, a musician—particulars 292; his younger brother Ghulām bacha _q.v._ Mullā +Ghulām+ _Yasāwal_—makes an emplacement for the Ghāzī mortar (935) 670; sent to collect the Bihār tribute 676. Ghūrī _Barlās_—on Bābur's service (905) 125; in the left wing at Qandahār (913) 334; wounded 336; [♰919 AH.-1513 AD.]. +Gūjūr Khān+—ordered on service (935) 638. +Gul-badan Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Bābur and Dil-dār—☛ her birth (929 or 930) and her book (_cir._ 995) 441; her journey to Āgra (935) 650 n. 2; ☛ her parentage 712; [♰1011 AH.-1603 AD.]. +Gul-barg+ _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Khalīfa—☛ betrothed(?) to Shāh Ḥasan _Arghūn_ (924-5) 366; ☛ married (930) 443. +Gul-chihra Begīm+, full sister of Gul-badan _supra_—her marriage with Tūkhtā-būghā _Chaghatāī_ 705 n. 1, 708; her parentage 712; ☛ perhaps the mother of Salīma _Chaqānīanī_ 713. +Gul-rang Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Bābur and Dil-dār—☛ born in Khwāst (920) 363; ☛ married to Aīsān-tīmūr _Chaghatāī_ (937) 705 n. 1, 708; parentage 712. +Gul-rukh Begīm+ _Begchīk_, wife of Bābur—☛ with Bābur on the Trans-oxus campaign (916-20) 358; particulars 712; her sons Kāmrān and `Askarī and her brother(?) Sulṯān `Alī Mīrzā T̤aghāī _q.v._ Mīrak +Gūr+ _dīwān_ (or Kūr) captured by Shaibānī (913) 328. Shaikh Abū'l-fatḥ +Gūran+ (G'hūran)—serving Bābur (932) 526, 528-9, (933) 539, 567, (934) 590; in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 567; host to Bābur in Kūl (Koel) (934) 587; takes lotus-seeds to him 666; sends him grapes (935) 686; given Gūālīār (936) 688, 690; ☛ holds it till Bābur's death 692 n. 1. +Ḥabība-sulṯān Begīm+ _Arghūn_, wife of Aḥmad _Mīrān-shāhī_—particulars 36, 37; arranges her daughter Ma`ṣūma's marriage with Bābur (912) 306, (913) 330. +Ḥābība-sulṯān Khānīsh+ _Dūghlāt_, daughter of Muḥammad Ḥusain and Khūb-nigār _Chaghatāī_—her marriages 21-2; depends on Bābur (917) 22. +Ḥāfiẕ Ḥājī+, a musician—heard by Bābur in Herī (912) 303. +Ḥāfiẕ+ _kabar-kātib_—his brother conveys Bābur's earliest Dīwān to Samarkand (925) 482; at a feast (935) 631, 632. +Ḥāfiẕ Mīrak+—composes an inscription (913) 343. +Ḥāfiẕ-i-muḥammad Beg+ _Dūldāī Barlās_—particulars 25; in Aūrā-tīpā (893) 17, 25; ☛ joint-guardian of Mīrzā Khān (905) 25, 122; his death 26; his sons Muḥammad _mīskīn_ and T̤āhir _q.v._; his (?) Chār-bāgh 108; [♰_cir._ 909-10 AH.-1504 AD.]. Khwāja Shamsu'd-dīn Muḥammad +Ḥāfiẕ+ _Shīrāzī_—parodied (910) 201; [♰791 AH.-1389 AD.]. +Ḥāfiẕ+ _Tāshkīndī_—gifts made to him (935) 632. +Haibat Khān+ _karg-andāz_, _Hindūstānī_—leaves Bābur (933) 557. +Haibat Khān+ _Samana'ī_—☛ perhaps the provider of matter to fill the _lacuna_ of 936 AH., 693. Mullā +Ḥaidar+—his sons `Abdu'l-minān and Mūmin _q.v._ +Ḥaidar+ _`Alamdār_—on Bābur's service (925) 383, (926) 421. +Ḥaidar-`alī Sulṯān+ _Bajaurī_—obeys custom in testing his dead mother's virtue 212; ☛ his Gibrī fort taken by Bābur (924) 366, 7, 8. +Ḥaidar Kūkūldāsh+ _Yāragī Mughūl_, Maḥmūd Khān's "looser and binder"—defeated 35, (900) and killed 52, 111-2; his garden 54; his son Banda-i-`alī and a descendant (?) Ḥusain _Yārajī_ _q.v._ +Ḥaidar-Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Ḥusain and Pāyanda-sulṯān—his Mīrān-shāhī betrothal at Ḥiṣār (901) 48, 61; rejoins his father opportunely (903) 261; particulars 263; his wife Bega _q.v._; [♰908 AH.-1502-3 AD.]. Muḥammad +Ḥāidar Mīrzā Kūrkān+ _Dūghlāt_, author of the _Tārīkh-i-rashīdī_—particulars 21-2,[2898] 348; ☛ takes refuge with Bābur (916) 350; ☛ his first battle (917) 353; ☛ ill when Kūl-i-malik was fought (918) 357-8; goes to Sa`īd Khān in Kāshgar 22, 362; on Sa`īd's service (933) 590, (936) 695-6; [♰958 AH.-1551 AD.]. +Ḥāidar-i-qāsim Beg+ _Kohbur Chaghatāī_—father of Abū'l-qāsim, Aḥmad-i-qāsim and Qūch (Qūj) Beg _q.v._ +Ḥaidar-qulī+—on Aūzūn Ḥasan's service (904) 102. +Ḥaidar-qulī+, servant of Khwāja Kalān—on service (932) 467; mentioned by Bābur in writing to the Khwāja (935) 648. +Ḥaidar+ _rikābdār_—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; his son Muḥammad `Alī _q.v._ +Ḥaidar+ _tāqī_—his garden near Kābul 198 n. 1. +Ḥājī Ghāzī+ _Manghīt_—sent to help Bābur (904) 101 where in n. 3 add Vambéry's Note 29 to the references. +Ḥājī (`Alī) Khān+ _Yūsuf-khail Lūdī Afghān_—acting with `Ālam Khān _Lūdī_ (932) 445-6-7. +Ḥājī pīāda+—killed at the Lovers'-cave 68; [902 AH.-1497 AD.]. +Ḥājī Pīr+ _bakāwal_—negociates for Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ with the Ḥiṣār begs (901) 61. +Halāhil+—on service (925) 391, (925) 638. +Ḥalwāchī Tarkhān+ _Arghūn_—engages Bābur's left wing at Qandāhar (913) 336. Sayyid Mīr +Hamah+—gets the better of two traitors (932-3) 546; receives head-money (933) 546; in the right wing at Kānwa 566. +Ḥamīd Khān+ _Khāṣa-khaīl Sārang-khānī Lūdī_—opposes Bābur (932) 465; defeated by Humāyūn 466; defeated (633) 540; sent out of the way before Kānwa 547. +Hāmūsī+, son of Dīwa—sent to make a Hindū pact with Sangā's son (935) 616. Amīr +Ḥamza+—a poem mentioned imitating that in which he is celebrated 280; [♰3 AH.-625 AD.]. +Ḥamza Beg+ _qūchīn_, son of Qāsim and a daughter of Banda-i-`alī—his wedding gifts to Bābur on his marriage with Khalīfa's daughter (925) 400; joins Bābur on summons from Qūndūz 406, 410. +Ḥamza Bī+ _Mangfīt Aūzbeg_—defeated, when raiding, by Bābur's men (910) 195. +Ḥamza Khān+, Malik of `Alī-shang—made over to the avengers of blood (926) 425; [♰926 AH.-1520 AD.]. +Ḥamza Sulṯān+ _Aūzbeg_—his various service 58, 59, 131; defeated by Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (901) 58; enters Bābur's service 59; given leave 64; his Mughūls rebel against Bābur (904) 105; serving Shaibānī (906) 131, 139, (910) 244; ☛ holding Ḥiṣār and comes out against Bābur (916) 352; defeated at Pul-i-sangīn and put to death by Bābur (917) 18, 37, 262, 353; his defeat announced to Ismā`īl _Ṣafawī_ 354; his sons in the battle of Jām (935) 622; his sons `Abdu'l-laṯīf and Mamāq _q.v._; his Mīrān-shāhī wife 37; [♰917 AH.-1511 AD.]. +Ḥaq-dād+, headman of Dūr-namā—makes offering of his garden to Bābur (926) 420. +Ḥaq-naẕar+—finds the body of his nephew (Nūyān) Kūkūldāsh (907) 152. +Ḥaq-naẕīr+ _chapā_—to punish his raid, beyond the power of the Herāt Mīrzās (912) 300. +Ḥarūnu'r-rashīd Khalīfa+—his second son Māmūn Khalīfa (d. 218 AH.) 79; [♰193 AH.-809 AD.]. Ustād +Ḥasan-i-`alī+—orders given for the completion of work he had begun in Kābul (935) 646-7. +Ḥasan-i-`alī+ _Chaghatāī_—receives a pargana (935) 689. +Ḥasan-i-`alī+ _Jalāīr Chaghatāī_, son of `Alī (_q.v._)—particulars 278, 286; meets Bābur (912) 299; his poet-sister 286 n. 1; [♰925 AH.-1519 AD.]. Sayyid +Ḥasan+ _Aūghlāqchī Mughūl_, son of Murād—particulars 279; serving Bābur (917) 279; his son Farrukh _q.v._; [♰918 AH.-1522 AD.]. +Ḥasan+ _Barlās_—his rough dealing with Bābur (910) 194. Shāh +Ḥasan Beg+ _Arghūn_, son of Shāh (Shuja`) Beg—quarrels with his father and goes to Bābur (924) 365, ☛ 430; his betrothal (?) to Gul-barg (924-6) 366 and marriage (930) 443; in the left centre at Bajaur (925) 369; sent to claim ancient lands of the Turks 383-4; is successful 388; out with Bābur 395; gifts to him _ib._ 414, 584;☛ social matters 400, 7, 10, 12; Bābur sends him a quatrain 401; (see _s.n._ Shāh-zāda), ☛ a principal actor between 930 and 932 AH. 427; his attack on Multān 437, 442 and _s.n._ `Askarī; accedes in Sind (930) 443; reads the _khuṯba_ for Bābur 430; his envoy to Bābur (935) 632; [♰962 AH.-1555 AD.]. +Ḥasan+ _Chalabī_—T̤ahmāsp _Ṣafawī's_ envoy to Bābur (935), arrives late 631, 632 n. 3, 641; Bābur accepts excuse for his delay 649; Bābur's envoy accompanies him on his return 641; his servant gives Bābur's envoy an account of the battle of Jām 649. +Ḥasan-dīkcha+ of Akhsī—supports Bābur (904) 101. +Ḥasan-i-khalīfa+, son of Niẕāmu'd-dīn `Alī—sent on service 679. +Ḥasan Khān+ _Bārīwāl Hindūstānī_—leaves Bābur for Sangā (933) 557. +Ḥasan Khān+ _Daryā-khānī_, son of Daryā Khān son of Mīr `Alī Beg—on service for Bābur (933) 582; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 669; pursuing rebels 678. +Ḥasan-i-makan+, loses Kandār to Sangā (932) 529-30. +Ḥasan Khān+ _Mewātī_—his change of capital (930) 578; his opposition to Bābur (932) 523 and n. 3, (933) 545, 547; his force at Kānwa 562 and death 573; Bairām Khān's remarks on him 523 n. 3; his son Nāhar _q.v._; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.]. +Ḥasan Nabīra+, grandson of Muḥammad _Sīghal_—waits on Bābur (902) 66; captures his elder brother (903) 72; leaves `Alī for Mīrzā Khān (905) 122; goes as envoy (?) to Bābur from Mīrzā Khān (925) 415; his elder brother Muhammad Qāsim Nabīra _q.v._ Mullā +Ḥasan+ _ṣarrāf_—given custody of gifts for Kābul (932) 525. +Ḥasan+ _sharbatchī_—helps Bāī-sunghar _Mīrān-shāhī's_ escape (901) 62. +Ḥasan-i-yaq`ūb Beg+, son of Nūyān Beg?—particulars 26; supports Bābur (899) 30, 31; his appointments 32; shows disloyalty (900) 43; his death 44; his sobriquet Nūyān's Ḥasan 273; [♰900 AH.-1494 AD.]. Malik +Hast+ _Janjūha_—receives an envoy from Bābur (925) 380; serving Bābur 380, 389; his injuries from Hātī _Kakar_ 391. +Hātī+ _Kakar_—particulars 387; his misdeeds provoke punishment (925) 387, 9, 91; abandons Parhāla 390; sends Bābur tribute and is sent an envoy 391-2; referred to 452. `Abdu'l-lāh +Hātifī+, nephew of Jāmī—particulars 288. +Ḥātīm+ _qūrchī_—promoted to be _qūr-begī_ (911) 252; in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335. +Hazārāspī+, see Pīr-i-muḥammad. +Henry VII of England+—his _Intercursus malus_ contemporary with 910 AH. 187 n. 2. +Henry of Navarre+—☛ his difficulties, as to creed, less than those of Bābur in 917 AH.-1511 AD., 356. +Hilālī+, see Badru'd-dīn _Hilālī_. Abū'l-nāṣir Muḥammad +Hind-āl Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_,