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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

on service (932) 465, 534; in the left wing (_tūlghuma_) at Kānwa (933) 568, 569; his brethren (935) 679. Khwāja +Munīr+ _Aūshī_—incites attack on Bukhāra (902) 65. Sayyid +Murād+ _Aūghlāqchī_[2916]—referred to as father of Yūsūf 39 and Ḥasan 279; [♰874 AH.-1469-70 AD.]. +Mūrād Beg+ _Bāyandarī Turkmān_—his joining Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (908) 280, 336. +Murād Mīrzā+ _Arlāt_, son of Muḥammad-i-qāsim and Rābi`a-sulṯān _Mīrān-shāhī_—his Bāī-qarā (?) marriage 266.[2917] +Murād+ _Qajar Turkmān_, _qūrchī_—`Irāqī envoy to Bābur (935) 666, 688, 689, n. 4. Mullā Khwāja +Murshid+ _`Irāqī_—envoy of Bābur to Ibrāhīm _Lūdī_ (925) 385, ☛ 427 n. 3; made Dīwān of Bihār (935) 661, 662. Mīr +Mūrtāẓa+—particulars 284. +Musā Khwāja+—whispers of Mughūl rebellion (914) 346. Malik +Musā+ _Dilah-zāk (Dilazāk) Afghān_—receives gifts (925) 394; brings tribute 409. +Musā Sulṯān+ _Farmūlī_, son of Ma`rūf—waits on Bābur (935) 685; in the battle of the Ghogrā 669. +Muṣṯafa Shaikh-zāda+ _Farmūlī Afghān_—on service for Ibrāhīm _Lūdī_ (932) 527; his brother Bāyazīd _q.v._; [♰932 AH.-1525-6 AD.]. +Muṣṯafa+ _Rūmī_, _tawāchī_—his culverin-discharge at Pānīpat (932) 474; has carts made for defence at Kānwa (933) 550; at Kānwa 550, 568-9; at the Gangas bridge (934) 599; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 668, 669, 670. +Mū'yad+—leading Daryā-khānīs for Bābur (933) 582. Shāh +Muz̤affar+—particulars 291; his artist-training owed to Nawā'ī 272. +Muz̤affar+ _Barlās_—particulars 270-1. Sulṯān +Muz̤affar+ _Gujrātī_—his death and successor 534 (where for [Jumāda II] "and" read 932); [♰932 AH.-1526 AD.]. +Muz̤affar-i-ḥusāin Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Ḥusain and Khadīja—particulars 262, 268; serving under his father (901) 58, (902) 71; given Astarābād (902) 61, 69; made joint-ruler in Herī (911) 292-3; combines in action against Shaibānī (912) 296-7 and withdraws 301; fails in etiquette 297; in social relation with Bābur 298, 299, 300, 302-3; plain speech to him from Qāsim Beg 304; a false report of him in Kābul 313; irresolute in opposing Shaibānī (913) 326; his army defeated 327; flees (to Astarābād) abandoning his family _ib._; his wife Khān-zāda Khānīm _q.v._ Sulṯān +Muz̤affar Shāh+ _Ḥabshī_, mentioned in illustration of a Bengal custom 483. Mīrzā Yār-i-aḥmad +Najm S̤ānī̤+, wazīr of Ismā`īl _Ṣafawī_—his killing Sohrāb _Bāī-qarā_ 262; ☛ his commission to correct Bābur (918) 355, 359; ☛ his massacre in Qarshī 360; ☛ slain at Ghaj-dawān 262 n. 4, 361; Bābur's alleged failure to support him 361; his retainer Muḥammad Jān _q.v._; [♰918 AH.-1512 AD.]. +Nādir Shāh+ _Afshārid_—his birthplace (mod.) Qalāt-i-nādirī 329 n. 4; [♰1160 AH.-1747 AD.]. +Nahār+, son of Ḥasan Khān _Mewātī_—released by Bābur from capture (933) 545; returns to Court 578; escapes 581. Nāhid Begīm—☛ her marriage (930) 443. +Na`man Chuhra+—captured by Taṃbal (908) 168; at a wine-party (925) 385. Gurū +Nānak Shāh+—his relations with Daulat Khān _Yūsuf-khail_ and traditionally with Bābur 461 n. 3; [♰946 AH.-1539 AD.]. Napoleon—☛ his problem of creed in Egypt less difficult than that of Bābur with Shī`a support 356. +Nārpat Hāra+ _Chauhān Rājpūt_—his force at Kānwa (933) 562. +Nāṣir Beg+—makes over Andijān to Bābur (904) 103; counsels him (908) 165; captured by Taṃbal 168; his sons Dost-, Mīrīm-, and Shāhīm-i-nāṣir; his brother-in-law Aūzūn Ḥasan _q.v._ +Naṣīr Khān+ _Nūḥānī Afghān_—particulars 659 n. 4; disaffected to Ibrāhīm _Lūdī_ and unsubmissive to Bābur (932) 523; discussion of his movements 530; assembles a force but flees before Bābur's 533-4, 544; his son Farīd _q.v._ +Nāṣir Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of `Umar Shaikh—particulars 17; in Kāsān (_æt._ 8) (899) 32; taken to his uncle Aḥmad 32; meets Bābur (908) 172, 178; at the capture of Kābul (910) 198, 199; Zurmut hostility 220; given Nīngnahār 227; misconduct 229, 241-2; accepts an invitation to Badakhshān 242-3; has an imbroglio with Khusrau Shāh 243; clans which had left him 255; defeats Aūzbegs (912) 295; defeated by Badakhshīs and goes to Bābur 321; Bābur's reflections on the situation 322; out with Bābur (913) 324; in the van at Qandahār 335; his loot and command and beleaguerment in Qandahār 339-40; goes to Ghaznī 343, 344; ☛ given Kābul (917) 363; ☛ returns it to Bābur (920) 363; dies in Ghaznī (921) 363; his sister Mihr-bānū and wife Qarā-gūz _Bāī-qarā_ _q.v._; [♰921 AH.-1515 AD.]. Khwāja +Naṣīru'd-dīn+ _T̤ūsī_—his Astronomical Tables 79; [♰672 AH.-1274 AD.]. Sulṯān +Nāṣiru'd-dīn+ _Khīljī Turk_, Sulṯān of Malwā—events following his death 593; his son Maḥmūd _q.v._; [♰916 AH.-1510 AD.]. +Naṣrat Shāh+ _Ḥusain-shāhī_, Sulṯān in Bengal—particulars 482-3; reported friendly to Bābur (935) 628, 637; sends him an envoy 637; negociations with him 661, 664, 676; referred to as at peace with Bābur 665; mentioned 667, 677, 679; his troops defeated on the Ghogrā 671-4; peace made 676; [♰939 AH.-1532 AD.]. +Naṣrat Shāh+ _Tūghlūq Turk_—receives Dihlī from Tīmūr 481 n. 4. +Naurang Beg+—☛ punishes the Mundāhirs (936) 700, 701. +Nau-roz+, brother of Muḥammad-`alī _Jang-jang_—at Bajaur (925) 370. +Naukar Hindū+, see Tūka. +Naẕar-i-`alī+ _Turk_—on Bābur's service (925) 389; his relation Minūchihr _q.v._ +Naẕar Bahādur+—killed on Khusrau Shāh's service 93, 94, 279; [♰903 AH.-1497-8 AD.]. +Naẕar Bahādur+ _Aūzbeg_—one of five champions worsted by Bābur in single combat (914) 349 n. 1. Shāh +Naẕar+ _Turkmān_—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335; rebels (914) 345. +Ni`amat+ _Arghūn_—his defeat 34. Mullā +Ni`amat+—killed in a surprise by Sangā 549; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.]. Khwāja +Ni`amatu'l-lāh+—his son Āṣafī 286 n. 2. +Nīgārsī+, see Dankūsī. +Niẕām Khān+ _Bīāna'ī_—not submissive to Bābur (932) 523; receives letters and a quatrain from him 529; defeats Bābur's troops (933) 538-9; waits on Bābur 539; in the left wing at Kānwa 567; on service (935) 678. Khwājā +Niẕāmu'd-dīn Aḥṃad+, the author of the _[T.]abaqāt-i-akbarī_, son of Muḥammad Muqīm—☛ discussion of his story of the intended supersession of Bābur's sons 702-8; [♰1003 AH.-1594 AD.]. Sayyid +Niẕāmu'd-dīn `Alī Khalīfa+ _Marghīlānī_, _Barlās Turk_ son of Junaid—escapes from prison and death (900) 55; driven from Bābur's presence (903) 90, (905) 119; defends Kābul (912) 313; mediates (914) 345; hears rumours of Mughūl revolt 346; in the left centre at Bajaur (925) 369 and at Pānīpat (932) 473; given charge of Ibrāhīm's corpse 474 n. 1; at Kānwa (933) 556, 558, 564-5; on service 384, 395, 666; communicates bad news at Chanderī (934) 594 and (935) 639; mediates for Raḥīm-dād 689; ☛ declines the Badakhshān government (936) 697; ☛ discussion of his plan to set Humāyūn aside (in Hindūstān?) 702-8; his seat at a feast 631; host to Bābur 408; his sons Muḥibb-i-`alī, Ḥusamu'd-dīn-i-`alī, Ḥamza and daughter Gul-barg _q.v._ Shaikh +Niẕāmū'd-dīn Auliyā+—his tomb visited by Bābur (932) 475; [♰725 AH.-1325 AD.]. +Niẕāmu'l-mulk+ _Khawāfī_, Dīwān in Herī—arrested and put to death 282; [♰903 AH.-1497-8 AD.]. Hazrat +Nuḥ+ (Noah)—his father Lām _q.v._ +Nūr Beg+ (perhaps Sayyid Nūru'd-dīn _Chaghānīānī_ _infra)_—disobeys the Law, plays the lute (925) 395; joins Bābur in an autumn garden 418; his brethren on service (932) 446; with Bābur in the East (935) 653; in the battle of the Ghogrā 673; sent to allay Rahīm-dād's fears 688-9; his brother Shāham _q.v._ Sayyid +Nūru'd-dīn+ _Chaghānīānī_—Sayyid Amīr—a son-in-law of Bābur and father of Salīma-sulṯān ☛ 713; perhaps Nūr Beg _supra_. Shaikh +Nūru'd-dīn Beg+ _Turkistānī_, _Qībchāq Turk_—grandfather, through a daughter, of Yūnas _Chaghatāī_ 19 (see T.R. trs. p. 64). +Nūru'l-lāh+ _ṯambūrchī_—his experience in an earthquake (911) 247. Sayyid +Nūyān Beg+ _Tīrmīẕī_—particulars 273; his son Ḥasan-i-ya`qūb _q.v._ +Nūyān Kūkūldāsh+ _Tīrmīẕī_—makes a right guess (906) 131-2; on service against Shaibānī 142; his sword sent as a gift to Taṃbal (907) 150; that sword wounds Bābur's head (908) 151, 167, 396; his suspicious death 151-152; Bābur's grief 152; Nūyān's uncle Ḥaq-naẕar _q.v._; [♰907 AH.-1502 AD.]. +Padmāwatī+, wife of Rānā Sangā—in Rantanbhūr (935) 612; mentioned 613 n. 1; her son Bikramājīt and kinsman Asūk-māl _q.v._ +Pahār Khān+ _Lūdī_, see Bihār. +Pahār Mīrza+, a father-in-law of Jahāngīr _Mīrān-shāhī_—his daughter brings her son Pir-i-muḥammad to Bābur (913) 331. +Pahlawān+ _Aūdī_ (_Oudhī_)—wrestles (935) 683, 688. +Pahlawān+ _Lāhorī_, a boatman—wrestles (935) 656. +Pāpa Āghācha+, a mistress of Ḥuṣain _Bāī-qarā_—particulars 266, 268-9; her five sons and three daughters _ib._[2918] +Pāpā-aūghūlī+, of Bābur's household—out with Bābur (910) 234; at Qandahār (913) 335. +Parbat+ _Kakar_—conveys tribute to Bābur (925) 391, 392, 393. +Pasha Begīm+ _Bahārlū_, _Āq-qūīlūq Turkmān_, daughter of `Alī-shukr Beg—particulars 49; her nephew Yār-`alī Balāl _q.v._[2919] +Pāyanda-muḥammad+ _Qīplān_—out with Bābur (925) 404. +Pāyanda-sulṯān Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Abū-sa`īd and wife of Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_—particulars 263, 265, 268; her son Ḥaidar and her daughters _ib._; visited in Herāt by Bābur (912) 301; arranges a marriage for him 306; captured by Shaibānī (913) 327. +Pietro della Vallé+—an illustration drawn from his recorded morning-draught (1623 AD.) 395. Khwāja +Pir Aḥmad+ _Khawāfī_—his son 281. +Pir Budāgh Sulṯān+, Khāqān in Desht Qībchāq (Ḥ.S. iii, 232)—his Bāī-qarā marriage 258 n. 2. Mīr +Pīr Darwesh+ _Hazār-aspī_—in charge of Balkh (857) 50; fights there _ib._ +Pīrī Beg+ _Turkmān_—joins Bābur (913) 336; particulars Author's Note, 336. +Pīr Kānū+ of Sakhī-sarwār—Bābur halts at his tomb (910) 238. +Pīr Muḥammad+ _Aīlchī-būghā_, _qūchīn_—particulars 50 and nn.; drowned 48 n. 4, 50; [895 AH.-1490 AD.]. +Pīr Muḥammad+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_,_ Barlās Turk_, son of Jahāngīr—brought by his widowed mother to Bābur (913) 331. +Pīr-qulī+ _Sīstānī_—in the right wing at Pānīpat (932) 472, and at Kānwa (933) 566; on service (932) 530. +Pīr Sulṯān+ _Pashāī_—one of Bābur's guides (912) 308. Prester John, Wang Khān [T.R. trs. 16], Ong Khān [Abu'l-ghāzī, Desmaisons' trs. p. 55]—his title 23 n. 3. +Pulād Sulṯān+ _Aūzbeg-Shaibān Chīngīz-khānid_—son of Kūchūm—Bābur sends him his earliest-mentioned Dīwān (925) 402, 632 n. 3; at Jām (934) 622; an envoy goes from him to Bābur (935) 631, 632, 641. +Pūrān+ (Allāh-bīrdī or Allāh-qulī)—out with Bābur (910) 234; wounded (913) 342;