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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

of Maḥmūd and Sulṯān-nigār _Chaghatāī_—particulars 47; sent by The Khān (Maḥmūd _Chaghatāī_) against Samarkand (905) 122; in Tāshkīnt (908) 159; at Khusrau Shāh's audience of submission (910) 193; demands vengeance on him 194; on service 234; disloyal (912) 313-20; captured and banished 320; rejoins Bābur from Herāt (913) 331; in the right wing at Qandahār 334; his loot 338; goes to Badakhshān on Shāh Begīm's insistance 340-1, 342; his claim to rule in it 698 nn. 1-3; serves as a refuge for Sa`īd _Chaghatāī_ (915) 349 and Ḥaidar _Dūghlāt_ 350; sends Bābur news of Shaibānī's defeat at Merv (916) 350; invites his help in recovering their ancestral lands _ib._; messenger of Bābur to Ismā`īl _Ṣafawī_ 352; helps him to defend Ḥiṣār (918) 359; receives him plundered 362; sends him an envoy (925) 402; loses lands to Sa`īd _Chaghatāī_ 695; ☛ mentioned 427; his death announced to Bābur (927) 433, 621 n. 5; his titles 21 n. 5; his guardians 26, 122; [♰927 AH.-1521 AD.]. +Mīr-zādas+ of Khwāst—wait on Bābur (925) 399. +Mīrzā-i-malū+ _Qārlūq_?—his son Shāh Ḥusain or Ḥasan _q.v._ +Mīrzā Mughūl+, son of Daulat-qadam-i-turk—conveys letters (932) 526-7. +Mohan+ _Mundāhir Rājpūt_—☛ a punitive expedition against him (936) 700-1; [♰936 AH.-1529 AD.?]. The +Mother+ of the Head-man of Dikh-kat—particulars 150. Ibrāhīm _Lūdī's_ +Mother+—receives an allowance from Bābur (932) 478; attempts to poison him (933) 541; started under guard for Kābul 543; her grandson sent to Kāmrān 544; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.]. +Mīrzā-qulī Kūkūldāsh+ (Mīrzā's servant?)—with Jahāngīr (_æt._ 9) in Akhsī (899) 32; one of three with Bābur (908) 166, 396; fights for him in Akhsī 174-5; one of eight in flight 177; his horse fails 178; at social gatherings (925) 385, 387, 388; out with Bābur 403; behaves in his own fashion 407. +Mūātūkān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīs-khānid_—mentioned in Yūnās Khān's genealogy 19. Bībī +Mubāraka+ _Yūsuf-zāī Afghān_, a wife of Bābur—referred to 367 n. 3; her courtship App. K; asked and given in marriage 375, 376; a couplet suiting her 411; accompanies Mahīm to Āgra (935) 689 n. 5; ☛ her probable charge of conveying Bābur's body to Kābul 709-10; her brother Jamāl App. K, xli; [♰ early under Akbar 963 AH.-1556 AD.]. +Mubārak Khān+ _Jilwānī_—killed serving Bīban (935) 685. +Mubārak Shāh+ _Muz̤affarī_—rises in Badakhshān against Shaibānī (_cir._ 910) 242; invites Nāṣir _Mīrān-shāhī_ 242, 243; defeats Aūzbegs (912) 294-5; defeats Nāṣir 321; in force (913) Author's Note 340; invites Mīrzā Khān to Qila`i-ẕafar 21; [♰_cir._ 913 AH.-1508 AD.]. +Mughūl Beg+, amīr of Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_—particulars 275. A +Mughūl servant+—aims an arrow at Bābur (912) 316. +Mūḥammad+, the Prophet—reference to 75; a saying on travel 184; his edicts do not include the imposition of the _tamghā_ 555; on the duty of a wazīr 556; mentioned in the _farmān_ and the _fatḥ-nāma_ (933) 553, 559-574. Khwāja +Muḥammad+, an old tailor of `Umar Shaikh's—allays anxiety for Bābur (899) 30. Mīr +Muḥammad-i-Mahdī Khwāja+—on service (925) 381. Pahlawān Ḥajī +Muḥammad+—gifts made to him (935) 633. Ustad Sulṯān +Muḥammad+, a Kābul builder—orders for his work (935) 646-7. +Muḥammad `Alī+, son of Ḥaidar _kikābdār_—brings a gift (925) 418; summons Humāyūn (933) 537-8; sent out for news (935) 661, 662. +Muḥammad `Alī+ _bakhshī_—on Abū-sa`īd's service and defeated by Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (868) 259. +Muḥammad `Alī+ _Jang-jang_—in the centre at Bajaur (925) 370; at boat-parties 387, 388; his servant's service 391, 392; his districts 392-3, 530; reinforced 412; waits on Bābur 403, 419, (932) 458; at Milwat (932) 460, 461; at Hiṣār-fīrūza 465-6; wounded 471; in the van at Pānīpat 472; on service 530, (933) 549, 550, 576, 582; in the left wing at Kānwa 557; acts unsuccessfully against Bīban and Bāyazīd (934) 589, 594, 598; pursues from near Qānūj 601; sent against Balūchīs (935) 638; his brother Arghūn and sons Tardī-muḥammad and Nan-roz _q.v._ Khwāja +Muḥammad `Alī+ _kitābdār_—messenger to Khwāja Yaḥyā (905) 124; confuses a pass word (908) 164 (here _sāīrt-kīshī_ = _sārt_); captured by Taṃbal 168; fights against rebels (912) 315; in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335; in charge of treasure 338; at entertainments (925) 410, 411, 413; ☛ at Kalanūr (930) 442 (here Tājik = Sārt). +Mūḥammad `Alī+ _Mubashir-beg_—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; at Khūbān (905) 113; in the flight from Akhsī (908) 163; captured by Taṃbal 168; killed on service 252; his servant Sulaimān 175; [♰911 AH.-1506 AD.]. +Muḥammad `Alī+ _pīāda_—deserts Nāṣir _Mīrān-shāhī_ (913) 343. Khwāja +Muḥammad `Alī T̤aghāī+—`Asas—brother of Mahīm Begīm?—in the van at Qandahār (913) 335; meets Bābur at a crisis (914) 346; waits on Bābur (925) 399, 403; answers a military summons 408; the first to follow Bābur in renouncing wine (933) 552; at various entertainments (925) 387, 388, 400, 412, (926) 423, (935) 683; on his identity 522 n. 4; ☛ in charge of Bābur's Āgra tomb (937) 709. Khwāja +Muḥammad-amīn+—out with Bābur (910) 230; deserts from Qandahār (913) 343; at a garden-wine-party (925) 418; his servant Imām-i-muḥammad _ib._ +Muḥammad-āmīn Khān+ _Qāzānī_, _Jūgī Chīngīz-khānid_—Shaibānī sends him a Herāt musician 292; [♰925 AH.-1519 AD.]. Ustād +Muḥammad-amīn+ _jībachī_—attention for him desired from Khwāja Kalān (935) 647. +Muḥammad+ _Andijānī_—sent to Kābul (912) 313-4. +Muḥammad+ _Arghūn_—with Mughūls against Bābur (904) 106. Sayyid +Muḥammad-i-aūrūs+ _Arghūn_, son of Aūrūs—particulars 279. Shāh Sulṯān +Muḥammad+ _Badakhshī_—his claim to Greek descent and his six daughters 22. (Cf. T.R. trs. p. 107.) Mīir +Muḥammad+ _Badakhshī_ of Ishkīmīsh—particulars 288-9; waits on Bābur (917) 289. +Muḥammad+ _bakhshī_—on service at Qandahār (913) 338. +Muḥammad Bāqir Beg+ _Andijānī_—with Jahāngīr (899) 32; disloyal to Bābur (900) 44; with Bāī-sunghar (902) 65; leaves Bābur for home (903) 91; in Akhsī and seen in the flight (908) 189, 181; ☛ 182; his son Dost _q.v._ +Muḥammad Barandūq Beg+ _Barlās Turk_—particulars 270; on Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā's_ service (901) 58; retorts on Khusrau Shāh (910) 243; retainer of Muz̤affar-i-ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (911) 274, 293; acts against Shaibānī (912) 296, 297; at a feast 298; concerning Bābur's reception at the Herī Court 299; presses him to winter in Herī 307; his plan of defence rejected (913) 326. +Muḥammad Beg+ _Begchīk_, brother of Ayūb—in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334. Pahlawān +Muḥammad Bū-sa`īd+—particulars 292. Shāh +Muḥammad+ _dīwāna_, receives a fugitive Bāī-qarā 263; his son brings Bābur news of Bīban and Bāyazīd (935) 681. +Muḥammad-dost T̤aghāī+ _Kūnjī Mughūl_, son of `Alī-dost—with Bābur (900) 53; remains at a crisis (903) 91; captured by Taṃbal (904) 106; released (905) 119; his self-aggrandizment 119; deserts to Taṃbal 125; negociates for him with Bābur (908) 173; blinded by the Aūzbegs 125. Sayyid +Muḥammad+ _Dūghlāt Ḥiṣārī_—enters Bābur's service (901) 58, 59; his Mughūls desert Bābur (904) 105; conspires against Taṃbal and goes to The Khān (Maḥmūd) (907) 154; sent with Bābur against Taṃbal (908) 161. Sulṯān +Muḥammad+ _Dūldāī_, _Barlās Turk_—Bābur's messenger to Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (912) 294; returns with news of Ḥusain's death 295; in the right centre at Qandahār (913) 335; waits on Bābur from Bajaur (925) 401; overtakes him at Jūī-shāhī 410; at a wine-party _ib._; at Ḥiṣār-fīrūza (932) 465-6; in the right-wing at Pānīpat 472; given Qanūj 530; abandons it (933) 557; unwilling to return there 582; sent against Balūchīs (935) 638; ordered to Āgra 676. Shāh +Muḥammad+ _Farmūlī Afghān_, son of Ma`rūf—particulars 675; Bābur gives him Sārūn (934) 603, 675; waits on Bābur (935) 675, 679. Sulṯān +Muḥammad+ _Galpuk_, _Itārachī Mughūl_—opposing Bābur (908) 165. Shaikh +Muḥammad+ _Ghaus̤_—particulars 539; helps Bābur to gain Gūālīār (933) 539-40; intercedes for Raḥīm-dād (936) 688, 690. +Muḥammad Ḥaidar Mīrzā+ _Dūghlāt_, see Ḥaidar. +Muḥammad Ḥusain Mīrzā Kūrkān+ _Dūghlāt_, receives Aūrā-tīpā (900) 56; effects Qāsim _qūchīn's_ dismissal (903) 90; sent by The Khān (Maḥmūd) to help Bābur 92; lends him Pashāghar (904) 97, and Dikh-kat (907) 148; sent against Samarkand (905) 122; keeps back Aūrā-tīpā from Bābur (907) 149; goes to him in Kābul (911) 246; incites a Mughūl revolt against him (912) 313-17; captured and banished 319; ungrateful for leniency _ib._; Shaibānī avenges Bābur _ib._; his son Ḥaidar's excuses for him 317 n. 3; his wife Khūb-nigār, son Ḥaidar, daughter Ḥabība _q.v._; [♰914 AH.-1508 AD.]. +Muḥammad Ḥusain+, brother of Abū'l-ḥasan _qūr-begī_—joins Mīrzā Khān (912) 315; on Bābur's service (925) 413 (here _qūrchī_). +Muḥammad-i-ḥusain Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Ḥusain and Mīnglī—particulars 262, 268; hostile to his father (903) 94; his flight into `Irāq 262. Mīr +Muḥammad+ _jāla-bān_—examines a ford through the Sind-water (Indus) (925) 378; selects a site for a pontoon-bridge across the Ganges (934) 599; examines fords above Aūd (Oudh) 602; advises about crossing the Sarū (Goghrā) 674; rewarded for his pontoon-bridge (935) 635; his raft-mishaps (925) 407, 423. +Muḥammad Jān+, Najm S̤ānī's Lord-of-the-Gate—☛ envoy to Bābur and discontented with his reception (917) 355. +Muḥammad Khalīl+ _akhta-begī_—sent raiding (933) 538; at Kānwa (933) 569. +Muḥammad Khān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_—mentioned in Yūnas Khān's genealogy 19. +Muḥammadī Kūkūldāsh+, kinsman of Bābā Qashqa (?—_q.v._)—seen with Bābur by Khān-zāda (before 907 and in 916) 18; on service at Milwat (932) 458, 460; in the right centre at Pānīpat 472, 473, 475; sent against Dūlpūr 530; receives Samāna 528; in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 566, 569, 576; sends news of a second[2911] Balūchī incursion (935) 605 n. 3, 638; reports action 675; ordered to Āgra 676; at various entertainments (925) 385, 388, 412. +Muḥammad-i-makhdūmī+—his son Maḥmūd _q.v._ +Muḥammad Ma`ṣum Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Ḥusain and Mīnglī—particulars 264, 269; his wife Bega _Mīrān-shāhī_ _q.v._; [♰907 AH.-1501-2 AD. See ḤS. iii, 290]. Mullā +Muḥammad+ _Maẕhab_—profers support to Bābur (932) 463; Bābur's envoy to Bengal (935) 637. +Muḥammad Mazīd Tarkhān+ _Arghūn Chīngīz-khānid_, son of Aūrdū-būghā—particulars 39; has charge of Nāṣir _Mīrān-shāhī_ (899) 32; leaves Samarkand after the Tarkhān rebellion (901) 62; displeases `Alī _Mīrān-shāhī_ (905) 121;