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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

in n. 2 for "Gujrāt" read Mālwā); his territory (916) 593; his jewels (925 and 935) 612-3; thought of by Raḥīm dād as a refuge 688 n. 2 (where for "Muḥammad" read Maḥmūd); [♰937 AH.-1531 AD.]. +Maḥmūd+ _kūndūr-sangak, pīāda_—killed fighting 68; [♰902 AH.-1497 AD.]. Sulṯān +Maḥmud+ _mīr-akhẉur_, see Mīrzā Beg _fīrmgī-bāz_ (58 and n. 4). Sulṯān +Maḥmūd Mīrzā+ _Ghāzī_, _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Abū-sa`īd—particulars 45-51; defeated by Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (865 and 876), 46, 259-60, 268; succeeds his brother Aḥmad (899) 40-1, 86; alienates allegiance 41-2; sends Bābur wedding-gifts (900) 43; his death 27, 45, 50, 52; his family joins Bābur (910) 189; referred to 12 n. 2, 13 n. 5, 190, 194; his Ḥiṣār house 93; [♰900 AH.-1495 AD.]. Sayyid +Maḥmūd Ṣaifī+, Maulānā _`Arūẓī_—author of the _`Arūẓ-i-saifī_—tutor of Bāī-sunghar _Mīrān-shāhī_ 111. +Maḥmūd+ _Sarwānī_, son of Fatḥ Khan Khān-i-jahān—ordered to stay at Court (933) 537. +Maḥmūd Shāh+ _Ilyās_—his murder mentioned to illustrate a succession custom of Bengal 483. Sulṯān +Maḥmūd+ _Sharqī_, son of Jalālu'd-dīn—Bābur gives him the title of Sulṯān (935) 652. +Maḥmūd+, son of Muḥammad-i-makhdūmī—beheaded in Badakhshān 242; [♰910 AH.-1504-5 AD.?]. (?) +Mahndī+ (415, 473), or Mindī or Hindī (235, 335)—kills an Afghān trader (910) 235; in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335; wine first given to him (925) 415; in the left wing [_tūlghuma_] at Pānīpat (932) 473. Khwāja +Majdu'd-dīn Muḥammad+ _Khawāfī_—particulars 281, 282. +Makan+ _Farmūlī_(?) _Afghān_—not submissive to Bābur (932) 529; sent out of the way before Kānwa (933) 547; his son Ḥasan _q.v._ +Makhdūm-i-`ālam+, Naṣrat Shāh's Governor in Ḥājīpūr—his defences on the Gandak (935) 663. Ḥaẓrat +Makhdūmī Nūrā+—mentioned 641 n. 1. +Makhdūm-sulṯān Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Maḥmūd and Zuhra—in Badakhshān (_cir._ 935) 48. +Makhdūm-sulṯān Begīm+ _Qarā-gūz_, wife of `Umar Shaikh—particulars 18, 24. +Malik-dād+ _Kararānī_ (_Karānī_)[2908]—reprieved (932) 477-8; on service (933) 540, 582, (935) 682; in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 557. +Malik-i-muḥammad Mīrzā+ _Mīran-shāhī_, nephew of Abū-sa`īd—aspires to rule (899) 41; murdered 41; his wife 47; his house 146; [♰899 AH.-1494 AD.]. +Maliks of Alangār+—their garden a halting-place (926) 424. +Malik of Fān+—stingy to Bābur (906) 130. +Malik-qulī+ _Kūnārī_—Bābur halts at his son's house (926) 423 (where read qulī for "`Alī"). +Malik Sharq+—returns from service (935) 683. +Mallū Khān+ of Mālwā—his tank at Chanderī 597 n. 8, 598. +Mamāq Sulṯān+ _Aūzbeg-Shaibān Chīngīz-khānid_, son of Ḥamza—takes service with Bābur (901) 58, 59; ☛ his death 353; [♰917 AH.-1511-2 AD.]. +Māmūm Khalīfa+, _`Abbāsī_, son of Hārūnu'r-rashīd—his Observatory and Tables, Author's Note 79; [♰218 AH.-833 AD.]. +Mānik-chand+ _Chauhān Rājpūt_—killed at Kānwa 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.]. Rāja +Man-sing+ _Gūālīārī_, _Tūnwar Rājpūt_—his buildings 607, 608; his son Bikramājīt _q.v._; [♰924 AH.-1518 AD.]. Shāh +Manṣūr+ _bakhshī_—helps Shaibānī to take Herāt (913) 325; given Khadīja Begīm to loot 326. Shah +Manṣūr+ _Barlās_—on service (932) 465-6, 475, 530, (933) 545; in the right centre at Pānīpat (932) 472, 473, and at Kānwa (933) 565, 569; his untimely praise of the Rājpūt army 548, 550. Sulṯān +Manṣūr Khān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, eldest son of Aḥmad, Alacha Khān—☛ defeats his half-brother Sa`īd (914) 349; ☛ mentioned as Khāqān of the Mughūls, Sa`īd as Khān in Kāshghar 427; [♰950 AH.-1543 AD.]. +Manṣūr Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā_, _`Umar-shaikhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_—mentioned in his son Ḥusain's genealogy 256; his not-reigning 256; his wife Fīrūza and their children 256, 257; his beg Walī _q.v._ +Manṣūr+ _Turkmān_—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335. Malik Shāh +Manṣūr+ _Yūsuf-zāī Afghān_, son of Sulaimān—envoy of his tribe to Bābur (924) 371; his daughter's marriage with Bābur (925) 375, App. K; waits on him 399, 400; his brother T̤aus Khān and cousin Aḥmad _q.v._; a follower 377. +Maqṣūd+ _sūchī_, _shārbatchī_, _karg_—in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335, 338; his tossing by a rhinoceros (_karg_) 400. +Marghūb+ _qul_—in Mahāwīn (932) 523. Mīān +Ma`rūf+ _Farmūlī Afghān_[2909]—disaffected to Ibrāhīm and (later) to Bābur (932) 523; his opposition 530; flees 533-4; his son Muḥammad (?) leaves him (934) 598; his sons Muḥammad and Mūsa _q.v._ +Ma`rūf+ _Yaq`ūb-khaīl Dilah-zāk_ (_Dīlazāk_) _Afghān_—waits on Bābur at `Alī-masjid (925) 394. Shaikh +Maṣlaḥat+ _Khujandī_—his birthplace 8; dreamed of by Bābur (906) 132; his tomb visited by Tīmūr (790) 132 n. 2. +Mastī+ _chuhra_—deals with a drunken man (925) 415; intoxicated by beer (926) 423. Sulṯān +Mas`ūd+ _Ghaznawī_—his tomb 218. Sulṯān +Mas`ūd Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Maḥmūd and Khān-zāda I—particulars 47, 48; holding Ḥiṣār (900) 52; opposes Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ and flees (901) 57-8, 130; one of three besieging Samarkand; retires with his desired Barlās bride 64; quarrels with Khusrau Shāh (902) 71, and with the Ḥiṣār begs (903) 93; takes refuge with Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ 93, 95, 261, 265; returns to Khusrau and is blinded by him 95, 50; goes back to Ḥusain 95, 266; mentioned as older than Bāī-sunghar 110; meets Bābur in Ḥerāt (912) 302; murdered by Aūzbegs (913) 267; his wives Ṣāliḥa-sulṯān _Mīrān-shāhī_, and Sa`ādat-bakht _Bāī-qarā_ _q.v._; his betrothed (?) Kīchīk Begīm _Bāī-qarā_ _q.v._; [♰913 AH.-1507 AD.]. Sulṯān +Mas`ūd Mīrzā+ _Kābulī_, _Shāh-rukhī_, _ut supra_—particulars 382; his cherished followers, sons of Mīr `Alī Beg _q.v._; his son `Alī _aṣghar_ _q.v._; [deposed 843 AH.-1439-40 AD.]. Mullā +Mas`ūd+ _Sherwānī_, of Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā's_ Court—no particulars 284. +Ma`ṣūma-sulṯān Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Aḥmad and Habība-sulṯān, and wife of Bābur—particulars 36, ☛ 711; her marriage arranged (912) 306, ☛ 714; brought from Ḥerāt (913) 330; married 339; dies in child-bed and her name at once given to her child 36; [♰_cir._ 915 AH.-1509 AD.]. +Ma`ṣūma-sulṯān Begīm+, _ut supra_, daughter of Bābur and Ma`ṣuma-sulṯān (_supra_)—her birth 36; with her father in the Transoxus campaign (916-920) 358; her marriage (or betrothal) to Muḥammad-i-zamān _Bāī-qarā_ (923 or 924) 365; gifts made to her servants (935) 633; ☛ in the family-list 705, 706. +Maulānā Sayyidī+, or _Mashhadī_—his chronogram on Humāyūn's birth (913) 344. Shaikh +Mazīd Beg+, Bābur's first guardian—particulars 26, 27; [♰ before 899 AH.-1494 AD.]. Mīr +Mazīd T̤aghāī+ _Kūnjī Mughūl_, brother or uncle of Aīsān-daulat—takes part in a sally from Samarkand (906) 142; wounded at Akhsī (908) 168; rebels (921) 363, 397; his relations, `Alī-dost, Sherīm, Qul-naẕr _q.v._; [♰_cir._ 923 AH.-1517 AD.]. +Mazīd Beg Tarkhān+ _Arghūn_, son of Amīr Tarkhān Junaid (Ḥ.S. lith. ed. iii, 359)—his retainer Khusrau Shāh 49; his action in 873 AH. 51; his brother `Āshiq-i-muḥammad _q.v._ Shaikh +Mazīd Kūkūldāsh+—envoy of Muḥammad-i-zamān to Bābur (925) 402. +Medinī Rāo+ var. Mindī _etc._—particulars 593 n. 5; his force at Kānwa (933) 562; holding Chanderī (934) 483, 593; Bābur negociates with him 594; his house the scene of a supreme rite 595. +Mihr-angez Begīm+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_—married as a captive (913) 329 n. 1. +Mihr-bān Khānīm+ (see _infra_)—gifts to and from Bābur (935) 631, 632, 641; her husband Kūchūm _Aūzbeg_ and their son Pūlād _q.v._; a verse seeming to be addressed to her (925) 402. +Mihr-bānū Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī_, half-sister of Bābur (perhaps the Khānīm last entered)—particulars 18. +Mihr-nigār Khānīm+ _Chaghatāī Chingīz-khānid_, daughter of Yūnas—particulars 21, 149; joins Bābur in Kābul (911) 246; visited by him after her disloyalty (912) 315; goes to Badakhshān (913) 341; dies a prisoner 21. +Millī Sūrdūk+—reprieved from death (932) 477, 478. +Mīnglī Bī Āghācha+, a mistress of Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_—particulars 269; her sons and daughters 262-3, 266. +Mīnglīk Kūkūldāsh+—leaves Samarkand (907) 147. +Minūchihr Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, brother of Abū-sa`īd—an attributed descendant 24; his son Malik-i-muḥammad _q.v._ +Minūchihr Khān+ _Turk_—delayed in waiting on Bābur by a forcible marriage (925) 386, 388; on Bābur's service in Bhīra 389; leading Daryā-khānīs (934) 589; his relation Naẕar-i-`alī _Turk_ _q.v._ +Mīrak+—entrusted with building work (935) 642. +Mīrak Kūr Dīwān+ (or Gūr)—in Ālā-qūrghān when Shaibānī took Herāt (913) 328. +Mīrān-shāh Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Aūlūgh Beg _Kābulī_—rebels against his father and goes to Khusrau Shāh 95; sent to Bāmīān 96. +Mīrān-shāh Sulṯān Mīrzā+ _Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, 3rd son of Tīmūr—mentioned in a genealogy 14; his daughter's son Aḥmad _Bāī-qarā_ _q.v._; [♰810 AH.-1407-8 AD.]. +Mīr Buzurg+ _Tīrmīẕī_—his daughter and granddaughter, wives of Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ 47-8, 49. +Mīrīm+—Mīr Muḥammad?[2910]—adopted son of Aūzūn Ḥasan—killed fighting against Bābur 170; [♰908 AH.-1502 AD.]. +Mīrīm Dīwān+—_ut supra_—captured serving Bābur (904) 106; released (905) 119; discovers a rebel (912) 319. +Mīrīm+ _Lagharī_—_ut supra_—leaves Bābur for home (903) 91; captured serving Bābur (904) 106; killed 167; [♰904 AH.-1499 AD.]. +Mīrīm-i-nāṣir Beg+—_ut supra_—enters Bābur's service (904) 103; one of a household-party (906) 131; in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335, 338; at social gatherings (925) 385, 388; on service 389, 391; receives his dead brother's district 397. +Mīrīm Tarkhān+—_ut supra_—drowned while serving Bāī-sunghar _Mīrān-shāhī_ 74; [♰903 AH.-1497 AD.]. +Mīr Khurd+ _bakāwal_—one of a boat-party (925) 388; ordered to catch pheasants 404; made Hind-āl's guardian 408; on service (935) 640. +Mīr Mughūl+, son of `Abdu'l-wahhāb _shaghāwal_—helps to defend Andijān (903) 122; his son killed (904) 102 (here Mughūl Beg); sent by Tarkhāns to invite Bābur to Samarkand (905) 122, 123; on service (925) 389 (here Beg Muḥammad _Mughūl_); measures Bābur's marches (935) 658 (here Mughūl Beg); in the battle of the Ghogrā 673-4 (here Mughūl-i `Abdu'l-wahhāb). +Mīr Sang-tarāsh+—entrusted with building-work (935) 642. +Mīrzā Beg+ _firīngī-bāz_—in Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā's_ service (901) 58. +Mīrzā Beg Kaī-khusrawī+—in Ālā-qūrghān when Shaibānī took Herī (913) 328. +Mīrzā Beg T̤aghāī+, see Sl. `Alī M. T̤aghāī _Begchīk_. +Mīrzā Beg Tarkhān+—in the left centre at Pānīpat (932) 472. Wais +Mīrzā Khān+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_—Khān Mīrzā—son