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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

hanged by Taṃbal and Aūzūn Ḥasan 89; `Alī-dost fears retaliation for his death (905) 119; his right guidance recalled by Bābur (912) 303; [♰903 AH.-1498 AD.]. +Khwājakī Mullā-i-ṣadr+, son of Maulānā Muḥammad Ṣadru'd-dīn, and elder brother of Khwāja Kalān—particulars 67; killed near Yām 67; [♰902 AH.-1497 AD.]. +Khwāja Mīr-i-mīrān+—speaks boldly at Akhsī (908) 174; in charge of baggage camels (925) 376, 377, and of Bābur's camp 389, 391; Bābur halts near his Lamghān village (926) 424; given charge of Daulat Khān _Yūsuf-khail_ (932) 459-60; in the left-centre at Pānīpat 973; entrusted with gifts for Kābul 525. +Khwāja Mīr Sulṯān+—he and his son receive gifts (935) 632. +Khwānd-amīr+, grandson of Khāwand Shāh Amīr ("Mīrkhond") —☛ associated with Muḥammad-i-zamān _Bāī-qarā_ (923) 364-5, 463 n. 3; fleeced by Shaibānī's order (913) 328 n. 2; his discomforts in Herāt 617 n. 2; waits on Bābur (935) 605; Bābur invites him in verse 693; completes the _Ḥabību's-siyar_ while at Tīr-mūhānī with Bābur 687 n. 3; his omission (or loss) from Bābur's list of Herāt celebrities 283 n. 1; his and Bābur's varied choice of details 328 n. 2; ☛ his patron Amīr Ghiyās̤u'd-dīn and nephew Ghiyās̤u'd-dīn 436; [♰942 AH.-1535 AD.]. Khwāja +Khwānd-sa`īd+—Bābur visits his tomb (925) 407. Mīr +Khāwand+—Shāh Amīr ("Mīrkhond")—author of the _Rauzatu'ṣ-ṣafā_, grandfather of Khwānd-amīr—his omission (or loss) from Bābur's list of Herāt celebrities 283 n. 1; [♰903 AH.-1498 AD.]. +Kīchīk `Alī+—his courage (908) 176; made prisoner (933) 557, 576; _shiqdār_ of Koel 176. +Kīchīk Bāqī+ _dīwāna_—suspended (911) 248; killed at Qalāt-i-ghilzāī 248; [♰911 AH.-1505 AD.]. +Kīchīk Begīm+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Ḥusain and Pāyanda-sulṯān—refused in marriage to Mas`ūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ 265; "afterwards" marries Multā Khwāja 266.[2905] +Kīchīk Khwāja+—on `Askarī's service (935) 681, 682. +Kīchīk Khwāja Beg+, son of Maulānā Muḥammad Ṣadru'd-dīn and elder brother of Khwāja Kalān—in the left wing at Khūbān (905) 113; killed at Qalāt-i-ghilzāī 248[2906]; [♰911 AH.-1505 AD.]. +Kīchīk Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Aḥmad (Mīrzā Sayyidī) and Ākā _Bāī-qarā_—particulars 257. +Kīchkīna+ _tunqṯār_—sent with orders to Tramontane begs (925) 406. +Kīpa+ and +Kīpīk+, see Kūpūk. Rāja +Kirtī+ _Gūālīārī_, see Karna. +Kītīn-qarā Sulṯān+ _Aūzbeg_—in Balkh (932) 545-6; at Jām (935) 622 (where in n. 1 read 935 for "934"); makes complaint to Bābur 649, 645 n. 1. +Kitta Beg+ _Kohbur Chaghatāī_, son of Sayyidī Qarā—convoys Yūsuf-khail chiefs to Bhīra (932) 461; on Bābur's service 465-6, 468, 528, (933) 545, (935) 638; wounded at Bīāna (933) 548. +Kitta Māh+ and +Kīchīk Māh+, slaves of Muz̤affar-i-ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_—offend Bābur by their performance (912) 304. +Kūchūm Khān Sulṯān+—Kūchkūnjī—_Aūzbeg-Shaibān_, _Chīnqīz-khānid_—particulars 632 n. 3; ☛ his force gathered at Qarshī (917) 353; ☛ a principal actor between 926 and 932 AH. 427; his position in relation to `Ubaidu'l-lāh (935) 618 n. 6; in the battle of Jām 622; various accounts of his escape or death 623, 636; his envoy to Bābur 631, 632; his sons Abū-sa`īd and Pulād _q.v._; [♰937 AH.-1530-1 AD.]. +Kūkī-i+[1] +Bābā Qāshqa+, see Hājī Muḥammad Khān _Kūkī_. +Kūkī+,[2907] paternal-uncle of the last-entered (A.N.)—on Bābur's service (934) 589, (935) 674, 679; in the battle of the Ghogrā 673; [♰940 AH.-1553 AD.?]. +Kūpuk Beg+, var. Kīpik, Kīpa (hunchbacked)—in Bābur's service (910) 237; promoted (911) 253; frost-bitten (912) 311; in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335; envoy to Mīrzā Khān (925) 405. +Kūpuk Bī+ _Aūzbeg_ var. _ut supra_—blamed for three murders (906) 128; given Khwārizm by Shaibānī (911) 256; his son Qaṃbar-i-`alī _q.v._ +Kūpuk Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā_, Muḥammad Muḥsin, son of Ḥusain and Laṯīf-sulṯān—parentage 262; defeated by his father (904) 260; does not join his brothers against Shaibānī (912) 296-7; defeated and killed 329-30; [♰913 AH.-1507 AD.]. Sayyid +Lāchīn+—bearer of an urgent message from Bābur (932) 453. Ḥaẓrat +Lām+, (Lāmak, Lāmakān), father of Noah—his reputed tomb, 210. +Langar Khān+ _Janjūha_—on Bābur's service (925) 380, 381, 388-9, 412; one of a raft-party 385; waits on Bābur 391, 411. +Langar Khān+ _Nīazāī Afghān_—one of a raft-party (925) 412; waits on Bābur (926) 421. +Laṯīf Begīm+ _Dūldāī Barlās Turk_—particulars 37 (where for "916" read 917 AH.). +Laṯīf-sulṯān Āghācha+ _Chār-shaṃba'ī_, a mistress of Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_—particulars 269; her sons Abū'l-muḥsin and Kūpuk _q.v._; [♰before 911 AH.-1506 AD.]. +Lope de Vega+—a popular use of his name resembling one of Nawā'ī's 287 n. 3. +Luṯfī Beg+—measures the Ganges-bank on Bābur's journey (933) 659. +Maghfūr+, see Faghfūr. +Māh-afrūz+—married by Kāmrān (934) 619 n. 1. +Mah-chūchūq+ _Arghūn_, daughter of Muqīm and Zarīf—marries Qāsim Kūkūldāsh (913) 342, 199 n. 1, ☛ 365; their daughter Nahīd _q.v._; [♰_cir._ 975 AH.-1568 AD.]. +Mahdī Sulṯān+ _Aūzbeg_, the constant associate (brother?) of Ḥamza—defeated by Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (901) 58; enters Bābur's service 59; deserts 64; defeats `Alī _Mīrān-shāhī_ and goes back to Shaibānī 65; his Mughūls are disloyal to Bābur (904) 105; serving Shaibānī (906) 131; at Sar-i-pul 139; at Ḥiṣār (910) 244; ☛ retires before Bābur (916) 352; defeated and killed by him at Pul-i-sangīn (917) 18, 37, 262, 353, 354; his Mīrān-shāhī wife 36; his sons at Jām (935) 622; [♰917 AH.-1511-12 AD.]. +Mahdī-Sulṯān+ _Auzbeg-Shaibān_?—his identity discussed 264 n. 1; his son `Ādil and grandson `Āqil _q.v._ Sayyid +Mahdī Khwāja+, son of Mūsa Khwāja and third husband of Bābur's sister Khān-zāda—Bābur's _dīwān-begī_ (916-7) 704 n. 3; ☛ dissuades Muḥammad-i-zamān from accepting Bābur's invitation to Kābul (after 920) 364; on Bābur's service (932) 468, 471; in the left wing at Pānīpat 472, 473; commands troops sent to seize Dihlī 475; gifts made to him 527; given Etāwa 530; orders changed 531; serves as an escort (933) 534, 537; given Bīāna 539; sends news of Sangā's approach 544; joins Bābur quickly 548; in the left wing at Kānwa 567; given leave for Kābul 579; host to Bābur near Etāwa (935) 644; waits on him returning to Āgra 686; displeases him 688 n. 2, 704 n. 2; summoned to Court 689; later particulars 644 n. 4, 688 n. 2, ☛ 692; ☛ discussion of a plan to make him Pādshāh 703-7; ☛ his name may be a gloss in the story 705; his son Ja`far _q.v._; his inscribed slab at Amīr Khusrau's tomb 704 n. 1; his surmised Tīrmīzī descent 704; his relation or servant Mīr Muḥammad (925) 381. +Māhīm Begīm+, wife of Bābur—particulars 344 n. 3, 711, ☛ 712, 714; ☛ with Bābur during the Transoxus campaign (916-920) 358; adopts Hind-āl (925) 374, 385, ☛ 715, App. L; ☛ visits Humāyūn in Badakhshān (928) 436; goes to Āgra (935) 640 n. 2, 650 n. 2, 665, 686-7, 689 n. 2, 690; ☛ her influence probably misused on Humāyūn 694, 707; meets him, sick, in Muttra (937) 701-2; ☛ her care of Bābur's Āgra tomb (937) 709; [♰940 AH.-1533-4 AD.]. Sayyid +Maḥmūd+ _Aūghlāqchī_, _Mughūl_—forced to go on foot (910) 239. +Maḥmūd Beg+ _Nūndākī_, _Barlās Turk_—particulars 51; defends Ḥiṣār against Abā-bikr _Mīrān-shāhī_ ( 873) 51, and against Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (901) 58; negociates with Ḥusain 61. Sultān +Maḥmūd+ _Dūldāī Barlās Turk_—expelled from Andijān (900) 44; turns informer (905) 125. Mulla +Maḥmūd+ _Farābī_, associated with Khalīfa—reads the Qorān to Bābur (925) 401; rebukes a jest at Khalīfa's expense 416; reads the _Khuṯba_ first for Bābur in Dihlī (932) 476; reinforces the right wing [_tūlghuma_] at Kānwa (933) 569; leads the Morning Prayer at Rāprī (935) 643 (where for "Muḥammad" read Maḥmūd). Sulṯān +Maḥmūd Ghāzī+ _Ghaznawī Turk_—his humble capital Ghaznī 217, 219; his and his descendants' tombs 218; Dost-i-nāṣir's tomb near his 396; his dam and Bābur's gift from Hindūstān for its repairs 219; Būt-khāk traditionally named from his idol-breaking 409 n. 3; mentioned as a conqueror of Hindūstān 479; contrast made between his position and Bābur's 479; [♰421 AH.-1030 AD.]. Sulṯān +Maḥmūd Khān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, Khāqān of the Mughūls, elder son of Yūnas and Shāh Begīm—succeeds his father (892) 13; his disaster on the Chīr (895) 31, 34, 39; invades Farghāna (899) 13, 31; thought of as a refuge for Bābur 29, (908) 178; retires from Farghāna 32; attempts Samarkand and is defeated (900) 52, 111, (905) 122; takes Aūrā-tīpā (900) 55-6; demands Andijān (903) 87; is visited by Bābur (900) 54, (903) 90, 92, (907 and 908) 153-159; sends help to Bābur (903) 90, 92, (904) 101, (906) 138, 139; his men abandon Bābur (903) 91, 92; he opposes Bābur (905) 115-6, 116; moves out against Taṃbal (907) 154, 156; numbers his army 154; acclaims his standards 155; ceremonies on his meeting his brother Aḥmad (908) 160; goes with him against Taṃbal 161, 168, 171; they number their armies 161; retires to Tāshkīnt 172; defeated at Archīān by Shaibānī (909) 7, 23, ☛ 182-3; his præ-accession sobriquet Khāmka Khān 23; his summer retreat in Farghānā 5; his Mīrān-shāhī marriage (cir. 892) 13, 35; retainers of his 25, 28; former followers, deported (908) by Shaibānī, return after his death (916) 351; Bābur's comment on him as a soldier 91, 157, and as a verse-maker 154; ☛ murdered with five young sons by Shaibānī 350; [♰914 AH.-1509 AD.]. +Māḥmūd Khān+ _Lūdī Afghān_, son of Sikandar—fights for Sangā at Kānwa (933) 562; reported to have taken Bīhar (935) 639, 675; one of three competitors for rule 651 n. 5; gathers an army to oppose Bābur 651-2; it breaks up 654; is near the Son 658; flees before Bābur's men 662; referred to 664 n. 7, 679 n. 7; on his title Sulṯān 652 nn. 2, 6, 653-4 n. 1; [♰945 AH.-1543 AD.]. +Maḥmūd Khān+ _Nūḥānī Afghān_ —holding a district from Bābur; taken by `Ālam Khān (932) 455, 456; deserts `Ālam Khān; waits on Bābur and given revenue from Ghāzīpūr 527; sent against Etāma 530; waits on Bābur (935) 659; searches for a passage through the Ghogrā 668; in the battle of the Ghogrā 669 (here _Ghazīpūrī_); receives a grant on Bihār 676; on service against Bīban and Bāyazīd 682. +Maḥmūd Khān+ _shikdār_ of Sikandarpūr—collects boats for Bābur's passage of the Ghogrā (935) 668. +Maḥmūd Khān Sulṯān+ _Aūzbeg-Shaibān Chīngīz-khānid_—in the battle of Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139; receives Qūndūz (910) 244; his protection sought 196 n. 5; dies 244; [♰910 AH.-1504 AD.]. Sulṯān +Maḥmūd+ _Khīlīj_ Turk, ruler in Mālwā—particulars 482 (where