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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

carried in haste to meet his father (920) 395; joins his father 417; ☛ the _Mubīn_ written for his instruction (928) 438; ☛ left in charge of Kābul and Qandahār (932) App. J, xxxv; a letter from Bābur to him _ib._ and App. L, xliii; his copy of the _Bābur-nāma_ App. J, xxxv-vi; gifts sent to him (932) 460, 522, 642; put in charge of Ibrāhīm _Lūdī's_ son (933) 544; ☛ of his transfer to Multār (934-5) ☛ 604, 605 n. 3, 645; of his proceedings in Kābul 618; his marriage to a cousin 619; the _Wālidiyyah-risāla_, Hindustān Poems and specimens of the Bāburī script sent to him 642; heads of a letter to him 645, 646; ☛ meets Humāyūn in Kābul (935) 696; ☛ meets Bābur in Lāhor (936) 699; ☛ of his governments 699; ☛ later action in Multān and Lāhor (938) (which read for 935) 699; ☛ visits his father's tomb near Āgra (946) 709; [♰964 AH.-1556 AD.]. +Kankū+ or Gangū—killed at Kānwa 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.]. +Karīm-bīrdī+—on Bābur's service (935) 661. +Karīm-dād+ _Turkmān_—at a household party (906) 131; escapes from Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 141; one of four fighting with Bābur (908) 166, 396; reprieved from a death sentence (914) 345. +Karm-chand+—acting for Ḥasan _Mewatī_ (933) 545, 578; asks peace from Bābur for Ḥasan's son Nāhar 578. +Kārm Singh+—killed at Kānwa 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.]. +Rāja Karna+ _Gūālīārī_, (or, Kirtī), _Tūnwar Rājpūt_—his buildings in Gūālīār 608 n. 3. +Khadīja Āghā+, and later, Begīm, mistress of Abū-sa`īd _Mīrān-shāhī_, wife of Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_—particulars 262, 268; her dominance 268, 292; visited in Herī by Bābur (912) 301; at an entertainment to him 302; a suspicion against her 302 n. 1; captured by Shaibānī (913) 327; given for a traitor to loot 328; her daughter Āq Begīm and sons Shāh-i-gharīb and Muẓaffar-i-ḥusain _q.v._ +Khadija-sulṯān Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Abū'sa`īd—(probably) seen by Bābur in Herī (912) 301; Bābur visits her near Āgra (934) 588 and in Āgra Fort (935) 606, 616. +Khaldār+ _Yāragī Mughūl_, son of Ḥaidar Kūkūldāsh—fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139. +Khalīfa+, see Niẕamu'd-dīn `Alī _Barlās_. +Khalīl+ _chuhra_—a brave who fought well for Bābur (904) 101. +Khalīl+ _dīwāna_—on Aūzūn Ḥasan's service (904) 102 (where for "Dīwān" read dīwāna). Sulṯān +Khalīl Mīrzā+, _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Mīrān-shāh—mentioned 262 n. 2; [♰814 AH.-1411-2 AD.]. Sulṯān +Khalīl Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī_ (_ut supra_), son of Abū-sa`īd—his daughter sole wife of Bāī-sunghar _Mīrān-shāhī_ 112. +Khalīl Sulṯān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, son of Aḥmad, (Alacha Khān), full brother of Sa`īd—his son Bābā Sulṯān _q.v._ +Khalīl Sulṯān+ _Itārajī Mughūl_, brother of Aḥmad Taṃbal—holding Māḏū for Taṃbal (905) 109; captured _ib._, and released 119; surprises Aūsh 125; helps Bābur against Shaibānī (906) 138; killed at Sar-i-pul 141; [♰906 AH.-1501 AD.]. +Khalwī+ _pīāda_ (or Khalwā)—his spear-head bitten off by a tiger (925) 393. The +Khatīb of Qarshī+—an envoy to Bābur (910) 188. +Khān-i-jahān+, see Fatḥ Khān _Sarwānī_. +Khān-i-jahān+, a "pagan"—opposes Bābur (933) 539. +Khān-qulī+, son of Bīān-qulī—leaves Bābur in Samarkand (903) 86; at a household party (906) 131 (where read Khān-qulī for "Khān-i-qulī"); gives ground for suspicion (907) 156; one of eight in the flight from Akhsī (908) 176, 177; in the right-centre at Qandahār (913) 335. +Khān-zāda Begīm (1)+, _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Maḥmūd—particulars 48. +Khān-zāda Begīm (2)+, _ut supra_, daughter of Maṣ`ūd and Sa`ādat-bakht—particulars 267; visited by Bābur near Āgra (935) 616. +Khān-zāda Begīm (3)+, _ut supra_, daughter of `Umar Shaikh and Qūtlūq-nigār—particulars 17; her marriage with Shaibānī (907) 18, 147, ☛ 184; her divorce and remarriage with Sayyid Hādī Khwāja 352 [Ḥ.S. iii], 364; her reunion with Bābur (916) 18, 352, 356; her marriage with Mahdī Khwāja _q.v._; her summons to Hindūstān (935) 647; his son Khurram Shāh _q.v._; [♰952 AH.-1545 AD.]. +Khān-zādā Begīm (4)+, _Tīrmīẕī_, wife of Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_—particulars 48; her son Mas`ūd _q.v._; her niece 48. +Khān-zāda Begīm (5)+, _Tīrmīẕī_, niece of the above, wife of Maḥmūd—particulars 48, 9; her son Ḥusain _q.v._; her five daughters 47-8. +Khān-zāda Begīm (6)+, _Tīrmīẕī_, wife of Aḥmad _Mīrān-shāhī_—particulars 37; Bābur, a child, pulls off her wedding veil (893) 37. +Khān-zāda Khānīm+ _Ḥājī-tarkhānī_, daughter of Aḥmad and Badī`u'l-jamāl (Badka)—particulars 258 n. 2, 329; illegally married by Shaibānī (913) 329; her husband Muzaffar-i-ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ _q.v._ +Khawānd Shāh Amīr+, ("Mirkhond"), author of the _Rauzatu'ṣ-ṣafā_—omitted (or lost) from Bābur's list of Herāt celebrities 283 n. 1; [♰903 AH.-1498 AD.]. +Khiẓr Khwāja Khān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_—mentioned in Yūnas Khān's genealogy 19. Khwāja +Khiẓr+ _Nūḥānī_, a merchant—killed by a Mughūl (910) 235 (where for "_Lūḥānī_" read _Nūḥānī_). +Khūb-nīgār Khānīm+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, daughter of Yūnas and Aīsān-daulat—particulars 21, 22; her death announced to Bābur (907) 148, 149; her rebel husband forgiven for her sake (912) 319; her husband Muḥammad Ḥusain _Dūghlāt_, their son Ḥāidar and daughter Ḥabība _q.v._; [♰907 AH.-1501-2 AD.]. +Khudā-bakhsh+ _Chaghatāī_, retainer, (1) of Khusrau Shāh, (2) of Bābur—in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334; rebels against Bābur (914) 345. +Khudāī-bīrdī Beg+ _tūghchī_, _Mughūl_—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; made a beg and on service 110; killed at Sar-i-pul 141; [♰906 AH.-1501 AD.]. +Khudāī-bīrdī+ _būqāq_, _Mughūl_—killed at Asfara (900) 53 (here _ātākām_, my guardian); his favour from Bābur 105; his son Qulī _chūnāq_ _q.v._; [♰900 AH.-1495 AD.]. +Khudāī-bīrdī+ _tūghchī Tīmūr-tāsh_—made `Umar Shaikh's Lord-of-the-Gate (_cir._ 870) 14; particulars 24-5; [♰a few years after 870 AH.-1466 AD.]. +Khurram Shāh+ _Aūzbeg-Shaibān_, _Chīngīz-khānid_, son of Shaibānī and Khān-zāda—particulars 18; [♰a few years after 916 AH.-1510-11 AD.]. +Khūsh-kīldī+[2903] _Mughūl_—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335. +Khusrau+, an ancient ruler of Persia—mentioned in a couplet 85. +Khusrau+ _Gāgīānī_—waits on Bābur (910) 230 (where insert his name in the last line); taken as a guide 231. +Khusrau Kūkūldāsh+—at a household party (906) 131 (where insert his name after that of Shaikh Darwesh); captured by Taṃbal (908) 168; rejoins Bābur (913) 330-1; in the right centre at Qandahār 335; out with Bābur (925) 377, 403; an enquiry 405; ☛ posted in Sīālkot (930) 442; seeming still to hold it (932) 453; on service 465, 471; in the van at Pānīpat 472; in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 566, 568; given Alūr (Alwar) by mistake 578; sent against Balūchīs (935) 638; at social gatherings 385-7-8. Amīr Khwāja +Khusrau+ _Lāchīn Turk_—a couplet of his quoted 503; [♰725 AH.-1325 AD.]. +Khusrau Shāh+[2904] _Turkistānī_, _Qībchāq Turk_, —particulars 49-50; takes Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ (_æt._ 17) to Ḥiṣār (_cir._ 873) 46-7; referred to as a rival 50; his tolerance of Ḥiṣārī ill-conduct (899) 41-2; expelled from Samarkand on Maḥmūd's death (900) 51-2; opposes Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (901) 57, 60-1; his rise helped by Bāī-qarā failures 61; supports Mas`ūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ 64; falls out with him 71, 93; blinds him (903) 95; defeats Badī`u'-zamān _Bāī-qarā_ 60-1; re-equips him defeated by his father (902) 70; receives well the fugitive Bāī-sunghar _Mīrān-shāhī_ (903) 74; makes him _pādshāh_ in Ḥiṣār 93; strangles him (905) 110; a fugitive Tarkhān goes to him (906) 120, 141; his niggardliness to Bābur 129, 130; gives him no help against Shaibānī 138, ☛ 183; Qāsim Beg _quchīn_ takes refuge with him (907) 27; his position less secure (910) 188; followers of his join Bābur 189, 192, 196, 227 n. 3; invited to co-operate with the Tīmūrid Mīrzās against Shaibānī 190; takes the Kābul road on Bābur's approach 192, 244; offers him service 192; the interview of his submission 193-4; allowed to go towards Khurāsān 194, 195; breaks his pact and is put to flight 197, 243; gets sensible counsel in Herāt 243; makes trouble for Nāṣir _Mīrān-shāhī_ in Badakhshān 244-5; beheaded at Qūndūz by the Aūzbegs 244; good results from his death for Bābur 245; Bābur's reflections on the indiscipline of his followers 199, 230 n. 5, 239, 244-5; his former following rebels (914) 335; his brothers Walī and Bāqī, and nephew Aḥmad-i-qāsim _q.v._; [♰910 AH.-1505 AD.]. +Khwāja Chishtī+ var. Ḥusaini—at a feast (935) 631. `Abdu'l-lāh +Khwājagān-khwāja+, fifth son of `Ubaidu'l-lāh _Aḥrarī_—his son `Abdu'sh-shahīd 653 n. 4. +Khwājakā Khwāja+, Muḥammad-i-`ubaidu'l-lāh, eldest son of Aḥrarī—protects Bāī-sunghar _Mīrān-shāhī_ in the Tarkhān rebellion (901) 62 (where, erroneously, "Khwājakī"); becomes his spiritual guide 63; visited in Farkat by Bābur (907) 149; his brother Yaḥyā _q.v._ +Khwāja Kalān+, descendant of `Ubaidu'l-lāh _Āḥrarī_—☛ a likely recipient of the _Mubīn_ 438, 631 n. 3 (where for "son" read grandson of Yaḥyā); at a feast in Āgra (935) 631; gifts and leave given 632, 641-2; a copy of Bābur-nāma writings sent to him 653. Mīr +Khwāja Kalān+, son of Maulānā Muḥammad Ṣadru'd-dīn—receives Bajaur (925) 370; particulars 370 n. 2; prisoners pardoned at his request 371; out with Bābur 372; returns to Bajaur 376; is recalled on grounds given (926) 422-3; joins Bābur for Hindūstān (932) 447; on service 465-6; in the right wing at Pānīpat 472; helps to secure Āgra 475; of his leaving Hindūstān 520, 531; his offending couplet about leaving, and Bābur's reply 525-6; has charge of Kābul and Ghaznī 524; conveys money to repair the Ghaznī dam 219, 524 n. 2, 647 n. 1; Bābur's various writings sent to him, quatrains (925) 372, (932) 525-6, (935) the _Wālidiyyah-risāla_ and Hindūstān poems 642 —letters (925) 411, (935) 604, 618 n. 2, quoted 645-8; commended to Humāyūn as a friend 627; a letter of his mentioned 644; wine parties in his house (925) 371-2, 375; has Ghaznī wine at Milwat (932) 461; urged to renounce wine 648; tells Bābur of a fruitful orange-tree (935) 510, cf. 483 n. 2; ☛ quotation from his ode on Bābur's death 709. `Abdu'l-lāh +Khwāja Maulānā-i-qāzī+—particulars 29, 89-90; supports Bābur (899) 30; chases off an invader 32; confers with other well-wishers of the boy (900) 43; mediates for Ibrāhīm _Sārū_ 53, for Aūrgūtīs (902) 68; envoy to Aūzūn Ḥasan (903) 87; open-handed to Bābur's followers 88; entreats him to save Andijān 88-9; Mīr Mughūl aids him in its defence 122;