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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

his father-in-law Qāsim _qūchīn_ _q.v._ +Qābil+ (Cain)—Bābur goes alone to his tomb (925) 415. +Qādīr-bīrdī+ _Ghainī_—spoken to by Bābur when in hiding (908) 180-1. +Qāītmās+ _Turkmān_, retainer of Jahāngīr—drowned (910) 237.[2920] +Qalandar+ _pīāda_—on Bābur's service (932) 529. +Qaṃbar-i-`alī+ _Arghūn_—on Bābur's service (935) 688. +Qaṃbar-i-`alī Beg+—mobilizes the Hindūstān army by Abū-sa`īd's order (873?) 46; expelled from Khurāsān with Maḥmū _Mīrān-shāhī_ 47. +Qaṃbar-i-`alī Beg+ _qūchīn_, son of Qāsim—races with Bābur (?) (907) 147; wounded, brings Bābur a message (908) 174; one of the eight in flight from Akhsī 177; gives Bābur his horse 177-8; beats down snow for a road (912) 308-9; fights rebels in Kābul 315; at Qandahār (913) 334; wounded 336; hurries from Qūndūz against rebels in Ghaznī (921) 364; brings Bābur a letter from Balkh (?) (925) 385. +Qaṃbār-i-`alī Be+g _Silākh_, _Mughūl_—particulars 28; his inconvenient absence (904) 106; recalled (905) 108; goes away 110; returns 112; in the van at Khūbān 113; goes away 115; returns and is ill-tempered 117; his districts 115, 124; his ill-timed pacificism 118; his misconduct 123; goes to Taṃbal, made prisoner, escapes to Bābur 124; on Bābur's service (906) 130, 131; at Sar-i-pul 138, 139; sends his family out of Samarkand 141; ? races with Bābur (907) 147; ? leaves Bābur in Dikh-kat 150 n. 3; conspires against Taṃbal and goes to The Khān (Maḥmūd) 154; serves Bābur against Taṃbal (908) 161, 162, 165, 166; counsels Bābur distastefully and flees 168, 170; talks to him of peace with Taṃbal 173; made prisoner in Akhsī against Bābur's wish 174; leaves Khusrau Shah for Bābur (910) 189; dismissed by Bābur and why 192, 532 n. 1; his son `Abdu'-shukūr _q.v._ +Qaṃbar Bī+ _Aūzbeg_—blamed by Shaibānī for three murders (906) 128; on service for him (910) 242, 244; defeated by T̤ahmāsp _Ṣafawī's_ men (934) 622. +Qarā Aḥmad+ _yūrūnchī_—Bābur's messenger to the Kābul begs (912) 314. +Qarā Barlās+—leaves Samarkand with the Tarkhāns (905) 121; fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (906) 139; besieged and holds out to the end 143, 144. Sayyid +Qarā Beg+ _Kohbur Chaghatāī_—remains with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; invited into Akhsī (for Bābur) (904) 101; escapes after defeat 106; at Khūbān (905) 113; released 119[2921]; his (?) hasty retreat to entrenchments (906) 138, 232 n. 4; his son `Abdu'l-qadūs _q.v._ +Qarā Bīlūt+—surrenders Qalāt-i-ghilzāī to Bābur (911) 248-9. +Qaracha Khān+—punished for disobedience (925) 390-1; on service (934) 602, (935) 638; his messenger with news of Mahīm's journey 650, 659. +Qārā-gūz Begīm+ _Arlāt_—her marriage with Nāṣir _Mīrān-shāhī_ 265. +Qarā-gūz Begīm+, see (1) Makhdūma, (2) Rābi`a-sulṯān. +Qarā-qūzī+—on Bābur's service (932) 471; in the left-wing [_tūlghuma_] at Pānīpat 473. +Qārlūghāch Bakhshī+ kills Mughūl Beg's son (904) 102. +Qashqa Maḥmūd+ (or Qāshqa), Beg of the Chīrās _tūmān_ of Mughūls—sent to help Bābur (906) 138; quarrels with a Begchīk for the military post of honour (907) 155. (He may be "Bābā Qashqa" _q.v._) Mullā +Qāsim+—building work given to him (935) 642. Sayyid +Qāsim+ (p. 96), see Sayyid Kāmal. +Qāsim-i-`ajab Beg+—remains with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; promoted to beg's rank (904) 104; captured by Taṃbal's men (905) 115-6; released 119. +Qāsim-i-`alī+ _tariyākī_—musician at entertainments (925) 385, 387, 388. +Qāsim Beg+ _qūchīn_—particulars 26; supports Bābur (899) 30, (900) 43; his appointments 43, 44 (where delete Sayyid as his title); punishes misconducted Mughūls (902) 66-7, 153 and has to leave Bābur (907) 27, 67; on missions (903) 90, (904) 100, 101; remains with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; defeated by Mughūls (904) 105-6; in the centre at Khūbān (905) 113; banished from Andijān by `Alī-dost 119; rejoins Bābur for Samarkand 123, (906) 130; suspects Banā'ī 136; in the centre at Sar-i-pul 139; defending Samarkand 141, 142, 143, 144; races with Bābur (907) 147; advises a tactful gift 150; out with Bābur (910) 234; rewarded (911) 252; goes with a punitive force to Nigr-aū 253; a saying of his twisted for ill 254; defeats Aūzbegs (912) 295; insists in Herāt on ceremony due to Bābur 298; angered by Bābur's being pressed to drink wine 304; mistaken as to a route 308-9; mistakenly compassionate 313; allowed to keep his Fifth of spoil (913) 324; in the left wing at Qandahār 334, 335; wounded 336; retainers allotted to him 339; his counsel 339-40; mediates for suspects (914) 345; waits on Bābur returned from Hindūstān (925) 395; mediates for Tramontane clans to leave Kābul 402; Bābur breaks fast at his house 408; his sons Ḥamza, Tīngrī-bīrdī, Qaṃbar-i-`alī _q.v._; his ill-conducted nephew 414; a servant 313; a father-in-law Banda-i-`alī _q.v._; [♰928 AH.-1522 AD.]. +Qāsim+ _Duldāī_, _Barlās Turk_—serving Bāī-sunghar _Mīrān-shāhī_ (902) 65; joins Bābur 66. +Qāsim-i-ḥusain+ _Aūzbeg-Shaibān_, son of Qāsim and `Āyisha-sulṯān _Bāī-qarā_—particulars 267, 298; joins Bābur (933) 550; at Kānwa 556, 559; receives Badāūn 582; on service 582, (934) 589, (935) 682; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 669; mentioned 631 n. 4, ☛ 706. Sayyid +Qāsim+ _Jalāīr_—wins the Champion's Portion at Asfara (900) 53; takes it at Shāhrukhiya 53; stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; joins him for Samarkand (905) 123-4; at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139; his strange doings in Pāp (908) 171; his unseasonable arrival in Akhsī 174; defeats an Aūzbeg raider (910) 195; out with Bābur 234, (925) 403; drunk 415; Bābur pays him a consolation-visit 418; a party in his country-house (926) 420; assigned to reinforce Khwājā Kalān in Kābul (935) 647. +Qāsim Khān+ _Qāzzāq_, _Jūjī Chīngīz-khānid_—his marriage with Sulṯān-nigār _Chaghatāī_ 23; his good administration 23-4; [♰924 AH.-1518 AD.]. +Qāsim+ _Khītka (?) Arghūn_, (var. _Jangeh_)—in Akhsī (908) 171. +Qāsim Khwāja+—succeeds in his brother Yakka's appointments (935) 674; on service 682. +Qāsim Kūkūldāsh+—at a household party (906) 131 (his name is omitted from the Ḥai. MS. f. 83 and from my text); helps Bābur at his mother's burial (911) 246; at Qandahār (913) 335; his Arghūn marriage 342, 199 n. 1, ☛ 443. +Qāsim Mīr-akhẉūr+—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; on service (933) 548. Malik +Qāsim+ _Mughūl_, brother (p. 568) of Bābā Qashqa—in the right-wing [_tūlghuma_] at Pānīpat (932) 473, and at Kānwa (933) 568; on service with his brethren (932) 528, (933) 558, 582, (934) 589; his good service near Qanūj and his death 599; his kinsmen, see _s.n._ Bābā Qashqa; [♰934 AH.-1528 AD.]. Shāh +Qāsim+ _pīāda_—sent on a second mission to Bābur's kinsfolk in Khurāsān (935) 617. +Qāsim+ _Saṃbhalī_—not submissive to Bābur (932) 523; surrenders 528, 529; sent out of the way before Kānwa (933) 547 (where the Ḥai. MS. adds "Beg", by clerical? error). +Qāsim Sulṯān+ _Aūzbeg-Shaibān Chīngīz-khānid_—his Bāī-qarā marriage 267; at a reception (912) 298; his son Qāsim-i-ḥusain _q.v._ +Qātāq Begīm+, wife of Aḥmad _Mīrān-shāhī_—particulars 36; of Aḥmad's escape from her dominance 36 n. 1. +Qayyām Beg+—Aūrdū (Ūrdū) Shāh—out with Bābur (925) 403; waits on Bābur as Governor of Nīngnahār (926) 421; joins him in Hindūstān (933) 550 (here Qawwām Aūrdū-shāh); at Kānwa 556, 569. +Qāẓī Bihzādī+—Bābur forbids unlawful drinks in his house (925) 398. +Qāẓī Ghulām+—escapes death by pretending to be a slave (904) 102. +Qāẓī Jīā+—waits on Bābur (932) 527; on service 530, (933) 544, (935) 639; joins Bābur 667; on service 668, 682. +Qāẓī of Kābul+—waits on Bābur (925) 395. +Qāẓī of Samāna+—☛ complains of Mundāhir attack (936) 693, 700. +Qismatāī Mīrzā+—on Bābur's service in Hindūstān (932) 474, (933) 545, 546-7, 548; his untimely praise of the Rājpūt army 548, 550. +Qilka+ _Kāshgharī_—escapes death (904) 102. +Qīzīl+ _tawāchī_—messenger of Shāh Beg _Arghūn_ to Bābur (925) 395. +Qublāī Khān+, great-grandson of Chīngīz Khān—his building at Qarshī 84 n. 2; [♰693 AH.-1294 AD.]. +Qūch Beg+ (Qūj), son of Aḥmad _qarāwal_—in the left wing at Khūbān (905) 113; his courage at Bīshkharān 118; leaves Bābur for Ḥiṣār (906) 129; ? reprieved at Qāsim _qūchīn_'s request (914) 345; on Bābur's service (925) 374, (925) 384; at Parhāla 390; comes on summons to Kābul 409; referred to as dead (933) 565; his brother Tardī Beg _q.v._ +Qūch+ _Arghūn_—allotted in Qalāt to Qāsim _qūchīn_ (913) 339. +Qūch Beg+ _Kohbur Chaghatāī_, son of Ḥaidar-i-qāsim—at Sar-i-pul (906) 139; in Samarkand besieged 142, 143, 144. +Qul-arūk+—drowned in the Sind-water (910) 237. +Qul-bāyazīd+ _bakāwal_—particulars 237; swims the Sind-water (910) 237; at Qandahār (913) 335, 338; his son Tīzak _q.v._; his tomb near Kābul 198. +Qulī Beg+ _Arghūn_—known as attached to Bābur (913) 337; returns from an embassy to Kāshghar (925) 415; his brother Aḥmad-`alī Tarkhān _q.v._ +Qūlij Bahādur+ _Aūzbeg_—mentioned in T̤ahmāsp _Ṣafawi_'s account of Jām (935) 636 n. 2. Mīrzā +Qūlī Kūkūldāsh+, see Mīrzā-qulī. +Qulī-muḥammad+ _Būghdā qūchīn_—particulars 40. Ustād +Qul-muḥammad+ _`Aūdī_—particulars 291; his musical training owed to Nawa'ī 272. +Qul-nachāq+—holding Balkh for the Bāī-qarās (912) 294, 296; surrenders it to Shaibānī 300. +Qul-naẕar+ of T̤aghāī Beg—sallies out from Samarkand (906) 142; does well 144. +Qurbān+ _Chīrkhī_—sent into Bhīra (925) 381; a false rumour about him as invited into Balkh (935) 625; gifts to his servants 633; in the battle of the Ghogrā 669; on service 678. +Qus̤am ibn `Abbās+, one of the Companions—his tomb at Samarkand 75. +Qusum-nāī (?)+—on service (932) 534. +Quṯb Khān+ _Sarwānī_—not submissive to Bābur (932) 523; Mahdī Khwāja sent against him in Etāwa 530; takes Chandwār (933) 557; abandons both places 579, 582; defeated 587. Khwāja +Quṯbu'd-dīn+ _Aūshī_ (_Ūshī_)—his birthplace in Farghāna 475 n. 6; Bābur visits his tomb in Dihlī (932) 475; [♰633 AH.-1235 AD.]. +Qūtlūq Khwāja Kūkūldāsh+—with Bābur in Samarkand (906) 143, 144; host to Bābur (925) 398, 407; held up as an example 406. +Qūtlūq-muḥammad Kūkūldāsh+, foster-brother of Daulat-sulṯān Khānīm—brings Bābur letters from Kāshghar (925) 409 (where for "Daulat" read Qūtlūq). +Qūtlūq-nigār Khānīm+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, mother of Bābur—particulars 21; mentioned 17, 19; in Andijān (900) 43; entreats her son's help (903) 88, 89; sent to join him in Khujand 92, and in Aūrā-tīpā (905) 136; her Mughūls rebel (904) 105; with Bābur in Samarkand (906) 136; leaves the town with him (907) 147;