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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

her son Muḥammad Sulṯān Mīrzā and grandson Aūlūgh Mīrzā (265 n. 5) _q.v._; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.]. +Sulṯān Malik+ _Kāshgharī_, _Duldāī Barlās Turk_—his sons Ḥāfiz Muḥammad and Aḥmad Ḥājī Beg, his brother Jānī Beg _q.v._ +Sulṯān-nigār Khānīm+ _Chaghatāī Chingīz-khānid_, daughter of Yūnas Khān and Shāh Begīm—particulars 23; long parted from a half sister (907) 149; meets her brother Aḥmad (908) 159; mentioned in Bābur's reflection on disloyal kinsfolk (912) 318; writes to him from Kāshghar (932) 446 n. 2; her son Wais [Mīrzā Khān] and grandson Sulaimān _q.v._[2931]; [♰934 AH.-1527-8 AD.]. +Sulṯān-niẕhād Begīm+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Ḥusain and Pāpā—particulars 266; her husband Sikandar _Bāī-qarā_ _q.v._ +Sultān-qulī+ and +Sulṯān `Alī+, see Bābā-qulī and Bābā `Alī. +Sulṯān-qulī+ _chūnāq_, _Mughūl_—his fidelity (904) and treachery(?) (914 and 921) 105, 109 n. 5; falls into a pit outside Kābul (910) 198; does a bold deed 236; out with Bābur (911) 252-3; rejoins Bābur from Herāt (913) 330-1; in the Mughūl rebellion at Ghaznī (921) 364 n. 1. Sulṯān +Suyūrghatmīsh Mīrzā+ _Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Shāh-rukh—mentioned in his son Mas`ūd's genealogy 382. +T̤aghāī Beg+, see Sherīm T̤aghāī. +T̤aghāī Shāh+ _bakhshī_—put in charge of Shāh Beg's treasury (913) 338. +Tāham-tan+ _Turkmān_—particulars 279; his grandson Muḥammad-i-zamān _q.v._ +T̤āhir Beg+ _Dūldāī Barlās Turk_, son of Ḥāfiẓ-i-muḥammad—joint governor of Mīrzā Khān (905) 122; feeds the famished Bābur (907) 148. +T̤āhir+ _tībrī_—finds Ibrāhīm _Lūdī's_ body (932) 475; surprised by Rājpūts (933) 549. Shāh-zāda[2932] +T̤ahmāsp+ _Ṣafawī `Arab_, son of Ismā'īl—☛ mentioned as reigning from 930-932 AH. 427; Bābur's envoy to him (930) returns with gifts (933) 540, 560 n. 2, 538, ☛ 712; his campaigns against the Aūzbegs (934) 618, (935) the battle of Jām 617 n. 3, 622-4 (where on p. 622 n. 1 read 935 for "934"), 625 n. 4, 635-6; his own account of the battle 635-6; desires peace 639 n. 3; his envoys in Āgra 630, 632; his friendship enjoined on Kāmrān 645; [♰984 AH.-1576 AD.]. +Tāj Khān+ _Sārang-khānī Afghān_—sends Bābur news that Maḥmūd _Lūdī's_ army has broken up (935) 654; waits on Bābur 657; brings news which prevents hunting 658; sent on service 682; superseded in Chunār by Junaid _Barlās_ 683. +Tāju'd-dīn Maḥmūd+ _Arghūn_—holding Qalāt for Muqīm (913) 339; waits on Bābur (925) 418. Sulṯān Aḥmad +Taṃbal+ _Itārachī Mughūl_—with Bābur at Asfara (900) 53; wounded near Samarkand (902) 67; promoted (903) 86; deserts Bābur under privation 86, 87; joins Aūzūn Ḥasan in supporting Jahāngīr in Farghāna 87-8; induces The Khān (Maḥmūd) to withdraw support from Bābur 91; his tyranny (904) 100-1; brings Jahāngīr against Bābur in Marghīnān 101; his men drubbed out of Akhsī and defeated at the ferry 101-2; loses Andijān 103; is joined by anxious Mughūls 105; takes Jahāngīr against Andijān and retires 106-7; Bābur's campaign against him (905) 108-110, 112-5; defeated at Khūbān 113; helped feebly by The Khān 115-6; opposes Bābur at Archīān 117 and at Bīshkārān 118; terms made 118-9; waits on Bābur 119; his ill-influence 119, 125; makes Qaṃbar-i-`alī prisoner 124; deserters to him 118, 125, 156; moves against The Khān (906) 145, 154; an uncle's rough comment on him 145; is sent Nūyān's sword by Bābur (907) 150-1; conspiracy against him 154; the two Khāns join Bābur against him (908) 161-176; wounds Bābur with Nūyān's sword 166-7, 396; terms with him repudiated by Bābur 169, 171; invites Shaibānī into Farghāna 172; occupies Akhsī citadel 173; left by Jahāngīr 173-174; mentioned to Bābur in the flight from Akhsī 178, 182; ☛ helped by Shaibānī 183; defeated by him and killed 244 and n. 3; a couplet of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ's about him 289; his brothers Beg Tīlba, Khalīl, Muḥammad and Bāyazīd _q.v._; [♰909 AH.-1504 AD.]. +Tāng-ātmīsh Sulṯān+ _Aūzbeg-Shaibān?_—at a feast (935) 631; his descent 631 n. 4; in the battle of the Ghogrā 669. +Tardī Beg+, brother of Qūj (Qūch) and Sher-afgān—in the left centre at Pānīpat (932) 472, 473, and at Kānwa (933) 565; on service 538-9, 582, (934) 590, 602; [♰946 AH.-1539 AD.]. +Tardī Beg+ _khāksār_—Bābur visits him (925) 417-8; makes verse dropping down the Kābul-river (932) 448; praises a spring and receives a district 467, 581; returns to the darwesh-life (933) 583; conveys a gift to Kāmrān in Qandahār 583. +Tardīka+—Tardi _yakka_ (568 n. 1)—on service (932) 462; in the right wing [_tūlghuma_] at Kānwa (933) 568, 579; joins Bābur at Dugdugī (935) 651; on service 678. +Tardī-muḥammad+ _Jang-jang_, son of Muḥammad _Jang-jang_—sent into Bhīra (935) 661, 664. +Tardī-muḥammad+ _Qībchāq_—at entertainments (925) 386, 400. +Tarkhān Begīm+ _Arghūn Chīngīz-khānid_, daughter of `Abdu'l-`alī—particulars 36. +Tarsam Bahādur+—punishes the Mundāhirs (936) 700-1. +Tarsūn-muḥammad Sulṯān+—serving Humāyūn (935) 640. Malik +T̤āūs+ _Yūsuf-zāī Afghān_—escorts his sister Mubāraka to her wedding with Bābur (925) 375. +Tātār Khān+ _Kākār_ (or _Gakar_)—particulars 387; detains one travelling to Bābur (925) 386; killed by his cousin Hātī 387, 389; Bābur dismounts at his house in Pauhāla 390; [♰925 AH.-1519 AD.]. +Tātār Khān+ _Sārang-khāni Afghān_—Khān-i-jahān—in Gūālīār and not submissive to Bābur (932) 523; surrenders (933) 539-40; on Bābur's service (935) 582 (here Khān-i-jahān). +Tātār Khān+ _Yūsuf-khail Lūdī Afghān_—particulars 382, 383; his son Daulat Khān _q.v._; [♰a few years before 910 AH.-1504-5 AD.]. Amīr +Tīmūr Beg+ _Barlās Turk_—Ṣaḥib-i-qirān—mentioned in genealogies 14, 256; his birthplace Kesh 83; Samarkand his capital 75, 77, 78; his description of Soghd 84; his removal of the body of Sayyid Barka to Samarkand 266 n. 4; circumambulates Shaikh Māṣlaḥat's tomb (790) 132 n. 2; and Aḥmad _Yassawī's_ (799) 356; captures of Qarshī 134 n. 1; his example followed in the bestowal of Farghāna 14; his gifts of the governments of Dihlī 487 and Samarkand 85; his descendants styled Mīrzā down to 913 AH. 344; Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ the best swordsman of his line 259 and greatest in his lands 191; a descendant 567; favoured begs 19, 39; one of his old soldiers 150; a descendant effects the migration of fowlers to Multān 225; Bābur's victory where his had been at Pul-i-sangīn 352; his and his descendants rule in Hindūstān 382; their loss of lands to the Aūzbegs 340; his builders and Bābur's numerically compared 520; [♰807 AH.-1405 AD.]. +Tīmūr `Us̤mān+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_—mentioned 280. +Tīngrī-bīrdī+ _Bashaghī_ (?) _Mughūl_—in the left wing [_tūlghumā_] at Pānīpat (932) 473. +Tīngrī-bīrdī Beg+, son of Qāsim _qūchīn_—helps to beat down snow for a road (912) 308-9; in the left wing at Qandahār (913) 334, 336; his servant at Bajaur (925) 361; entertains Bābur 401; returns to his districts Khwāst and Andar-āb 403; overtakes Bābur at Jūī-shāhī 410; acts swiftly for him (932-3) 546. +Tīngrī-qūlī+, a musician—plays at Bābur's entertainments (925) 385, 386, 388; upset into the Parwān-water 407; first given wine 415. +Tīrahī Sulṯān+—takes a letter to Khwāja Kalān (925) 411. Mulla +Tirik-i-`alī+ (= Pers. Jān-i-`alī ?)—fights for Bābur at Bajaur (925) 368 and (on his name) n. 5; on service (933) 551 (where read Tirik). +Tīzak+, son of Qūl-i-bāyazīd _bakāwal_—captured as a child and kept 4 years (910) 197. +T̤ūfān+ _Arghūn_—joins Bābur and so creates a good omen (913) 333. Sayyid +T̤ufān+—on Bābur's service (932) 453. +Tūghlūq-tīmūr Khān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_—mentioned in Yūnas Khān's genealogy 19. +Tūka+ _Hindū_ (var. Nau-kār)—given charge of gifts for Kābul (932) 525. +Tūkhtā-būghā Sulṯān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, son of Aḥmad (Alacha Khān)—waits on Bābur (934) 601; at a feast (935) 631; referred to as serving Bābur 318; works magic 654; in the battle of the Ghogrā 672, 673; receives praise, thanks, and guerdon 674, 677; on service 682; [♰_cir._ 940 AH.-1533-4 AD.]. +Tūlik Kūkūldāsh+[2933]—Taṃbal strikes him with Bābur's sword (912) 316; defeats Aūzbegs in Badakhshān (925) 408; on Humāyūn's service (935) 640; his servant Barlās Jūkī _q.v._ +Tūlmīsh+ _Aūzbeg_—in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 669; on service 678. +Tūlūn Khwāja Beg+, _Bārīn Mughūl_—particulars 87; on Bābur's service (902) 66, (903) 88; killed 88; [♰903 AH.-1498 AD.]. +Tūn-sulṯān+ (var. Yūn) _Mughūl—ghūnchachī_ of `Umar Shaikh 24. +Tūqā Beg+, son of Sherīm T̤aghāī—captured by Taṃbal when serving Bābur (904) 106; killed as a prisoner 107; [♰904 AH.-1499 AD.] Khwāja +`Ubāidu'l-lāh+ _Aḥrārī Naqshbandī_—his righteous influence in Samarkand 42; his intervention for peace between `Umar Shaikh and kinsmen 62 and n. 1; Pashāghar once his village 97; disciples named by Bābur, Aḥmad and `Umar Shaikh _Mīrān-shāhī_, Darwesh Beg Tarkhān, and Maulānā-i-qāẓī _q.v._; held in slight esteem by Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ 46; his family ill-treated by Maḥmūd (899) 41; dreamed of by Bābur (906) 132; his _Wālidiyyah-risāla_ versified by Bābur 619-20, 468 n. 4, ☛ 604; his sons [Muḥammad `Ubaidu'l-lāh] Khwājakā Khwāja and Yaḥya _q.v._; [♰895 AH.-1491 AD.]. +`Ubaidu'l-lāh Sulṯān Khān+ _Aūzbeg_, _Shaibānī Chīngīz-khānid_, son of Maḥmūd and nephew of Shaibānī—defeats two pairs of Bāī-qarā Mīrzās (913) 263, 329-30; defeated at Merv (917) 354; defeated north of Bukhārā _ib._; his vow and return to obedience 348, 356; victorious over Bābur at Kūl-i-malik (918) 201 n. 7, 357-8; routs Najm S̤ānī at Ghaj-davān 360-1; avenges Mughūl tyranny in Ḥiṣār 362; attacks Herāt (927) 434; takes Merv (932) 534, 617 n. 2; takes Mashhad (933) 534, 623 n. 3; attacked by T̤ahmāsp _Ṣafawī_ (934) 618, 622; defeated at Jām (935) 622 (where in n. 1 for "934" read 935), 635-6; T̤aḥmāsp's description of him 636 n. 2[2934]; his wives by capture Ḥabība _Dūghlāt_ and Mihr-angez _Bāī-qarā_ _q.v._; [♰946 AH.-1539 AD.]. Rāwāl +Ūdai-singh+ _Bāgarī_—his force at Kānwa (933) 562; his death 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.]. +Ūlugh, Ūlūs+, see Aūlūgh, Aūlūs. Mīr +`Umar Beg+ _Turkmān_—particulars 279; his sons Abū'l-fatḥ and `Alī Khān _q.v._ +`Umar Mīrzā+ _Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Mīrān-shāh—mentioned 262 n. 3. +`Umar Shaikh Mīrzā I+, son of Tīmūr—mentioned 14 (where in l. 3 for "and" read who); receives Farghāna 14; [♰797 AH.-1395 AD.]. +`Umar Shaikh Mīrzā II+ _Mīrān-shāhī_, father of Bābur—particulars 16-19, 24-28; his lands 17, 24, 50, 55, 95 n. 2, 103; Akhsī his capital 10; his ambition 12;