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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

his family relations 12; betroths Bābur 35, 120; Farghāna invaded (899) 13; his death 13, 29, 32, App. A, i, iii; his house used by Bābur (908) 172 and his tomb visited (900) 54, (908) 173; his mother Shāh Sulṯān Begīm _q.v._; his retainers Tūlūn Khwāja, `Abdu'l-wahhāb, Khwājakī Khwāja _q.v._; his old tailor 30; mentioned 6; [♰899 AH.-1494 AD.]. +Umīd Āghācha+ _Andijānī_, _ghūnchachī_ of `Umar Shaikh—her son Nāṣir _q.v._; [♰before 899 AH.-1494 AD.]. +`Us̤mān+, the Third Khalif—Bābur surmised that Samarkand became Musalmān in his reign 75; [♰murdered 35 AH.-665 AD.]. Mullā-zāda Mullā +`Us̤mān+—particulars 284; his birthplace Chīrkh 217. Amīr +Wāḥid+—his tomb in Herāt visited by Bābur (912) 306; [♰35 AH.-655-6 AD. ?] Beg +Wais+—brings news from Kābul to Āgra (933) 536. Pīr (or Mīr) +Wais+—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; released (905) 119; leaves Samarkand during the siege (906-7) 146. Shaikh +Wais+—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; leaves Samarkand during the siege (906-7) 146. +Wais Ātāka+—his canal at Kābul 200. +Wais Khān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, father of Yūnas Khān—mentioned 19; his sons Yūnas and Aīsān-būghā _q.v._; [♰832 AH.-1428-9 AD.]. Sulṯān +Wais+ _Kūlābī_—his friendship recommended to Humāyūn (935) 627; ☛ reinforces Qila`-i-ẕafar (935 or 936) 696; his daughter Ḥaram Begīm _q.v._ +Wais+ _Lāgharī_ +Beg+ _tūghchī_—particulars 28; joins The Khān (Maḥmūd) (899) 32; safe-guards his ward Nāṣir _Mīrān-shāhī_ _ib._; on service for Bāī-sunghar (902) 65; waits on Bābur 66; stays with him at a crisis (903) 91; on his service (904) 98, 100, 101, 106; at Khūbān (905) 113; advises 117; plundered by `Alī-dost 119; leaves Samarkand during the siege (906-7) 146; his son (?) Beg-gīna _q.v._ +Wais+ _Mīrān-shāhī_, see Mīrzā Khān. Sulṯān +Wais Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Bāī-qarā II—parentage 257; his cousin and wife Sulṯanīm _q.v._ Sulṯān +Wais+ _Sawādī_—mentioned 372; sent to collect a tax he had fixed (925) 374; receives gifts and leave 376.[2935] Sulṯān +Wālāma+ _Taklū_—mentioned in Shāh T̤ahmāsp's account of the battle of Jām (935) 626 n. 2. Pīr +Walī+ _Bārlas Turk_—☛ loses Sīwīstān to Shāh Beg (_cir._ 917) 429 n. 1. +Walī Beg+ _Barlās_—particulars 272-3; his son Muḥammad-i-Walī _q.v._; [♰973 AH.]. +Walī Beg+ _Qībchāq Turk_, brother of Khusrau Shāh[2936]—particulars 51; on his brother's service (901) 60, 64, (902) 71, (903) 93-4; mentioned (906) 129, (910) 191 by Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_; inquired for from Khusrau by Bābur 193; defeated by Aīmaqs 196; his death 51, 196; his former followers gathered together 242; [♰910 AH.-1504 AD.]. +Walī+ _khazānchī_, _Qarā-qūzī_—captured by Taṃbal in Akhsī (908) 181; in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335; his matchlock shooting at Bajaur (925) 369; on service 391, (932) 458, 465-6, 471; in the right wing at Pānīpat 472, 475, and at Kanwā (933) 566; his ill-behaviour in the heats 524. +Walī+ _pārschī_ (cheeta-keeper)—receives a gift (935) 633. +Walī Qīzīl+ _Mughūl_—rebuked (932) 453; in the right-wing [_tūlghuma_] at Pānīpat 473; made _shiq-dār_ of Dihlī 476; on service (934) 601, (935) 638. +Yādgār-i-muḥammad+[2937] +Mīrzā+ _Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Muḥammad—his capture of Herāt referred to 278; his defeat by Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ at Chanārān (874) 260; his loss of Herāt to Ḥusain (875) 260, 279, compared with Shaibānī's of Samarkand to Bābur (906) 134-5; the date of his death referred to 259 n. 1; his Master-of-horse Mīr (Qambar-i-)`alī _q.v._; [♰875 AH.-1470-1 AD.]. +Yādgār-i-nāsir Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Nāṣir—gifts made to him (935) 632; [♰953 AH.-1546 AD.]. +Yādgār-i-sulṯān Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī_ (_ut supra_), daughter of `Umar Shaikh—particulars 18; her Aūzbeg marriage (908) 18, 356; her return to Bābur (917) 356. +Yādgār T̤aghāī+—his daughter Bega Begīm _q.v._ Khwāja +Yaḥyā+, younger son of `Ubaidu'l-lāh _Aḥrārī_—his part in the Tarkhān revolt (901) 63; treats with Bābur (904) 98; welcomes him to Samarkand (905) 124; waits on Shaibānī (906) 127; banished by him and murdered with two sons 128, 147 n. 4; his house mentioned 133; his sons Muḥammad Zakariya and Bāqī, his grandsons `Abdu'sh-shahīd and Khwāja Kalān _q.v._; [♰906 AH.-1500 AD.]. Shaikh +Yaḥyā+ _Chīshtī_—his tomb visited by Bābur (935) 666; his son Sharafu'd-dīn _Munīrī_ _q.v._ +Yaḥyā+ _Nūḥānī_, at the head of Hindūstān traders—allowed to leave Kābul (925) 416. +Yaḥyā Nūḥānī+ (perhaps the man last entered)—waits on Bābur (935) 676; a grant and leave given 683; his younger brother (no name) 683. +Yakka Khwāja+—on Bābur's service (934) 598; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 671; drowned 674; his brother Qāsim _q.v._; [♰935 AH.-1529 AD.]. +Yāngī Beg Kūkūldāsh+—brings Bābur letters and gifts from Kāshghar (932) 445-6. +Ya`qūb-i-ayūb+ _Begchīk_, son of Ayūb—on Ḥusain Bāī-qarā's service (901) 58; proffers Khusrau Shāh's service to Bābur (910) 192-3. Sulṯān +Ya`qūb Beg+ _Āq-qūīlūq Turkmān_—a desertion to him 275; affords refuge to Banā'ī 287; his beg Tīmūr `Uṣman _Mīrān-shāhī_ _q.v._; [♰896 AH.-1491 AD.]. Maulānā +Ya`qūb+ _Naqshbandī_—his birthplace Chīrkh 217; [♰851 AH.-1447 AD.]. +Ya`qūb+ _tez-jang_—☛ one of five champions defeated in single combat by Bābur (914) 349 n. 1. +Ya`qūb Sulṯān+—mentioned as at Jām 636 n. 2. Mullā +Yārak+—plays one of his compositions and incites Bābur to compose (926) 422. +Yārak T̤aghāī+ (var. Yārīk)—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; _locum tenens_ in Akhsī (905) 116; retaliates on Turkmān Hazāras (911) 253; takes charge of sheep raided by Bābur (912) 313; in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334. +Yār-i-`alī+ _Balāl_, _Bahārlū Qarā-qūīlūq Turkmān_, grandfather of Bairām Khān-i-khānān—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; wounded (905) 109 (where in n. 5 for "father" read grandfather); rejoins Bābur (910) 189; on his Tramontane service (932-3) 546. +Yār-i-ḥusain+, grandson of Mīr (Shaikh) `Alī Beg—waits on Bābur (910) 228; asks permission to raise a force in Bābur's name 231; kills Bāqī _Chaghānīānī_ (911) 250-1. +Yārīm Beg+—Yār-i-muḥammad?—on Bābur's service (913) 337. +Yīlī-pars Sulṯān+ _Aūzbeg-shaibān_—his brother Aīsān-qulī (_q.v._) 265. +Yīsūn-tawā Khān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_—mentioned in Yūnas Khān's genealogy 19. +Yūl-chūq+—conveys a message to Bābur (904) 99. +Yūnas-i-`alī+, son of Bābā `Alī Lord-of-the-Gate—surprised at a Tuesday's fast (925) 398; on Bābur's service 278, 468 (where read his name in l. 3) 475, 521; in the right centre at Pānīpat (932) 472, 473 and at Kānwa (933) 565, 569; has charge of Ibrāhīm's mother 543, 545; makes a garden (932) 532; in social charge of T̤ahmāsp _Ṣafawī's_ envoys (935) 631; inquires into Muḥammad-i-zamān _Bāī-qarā's_ objections to Bihār 661, 662; in the battle of the Ghogrā 671; at entertainments (925) 400, (935) 683; his kinsman Ibrāhīm _qanūnī_ _q.v._ +Yūnas Khān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, Bābur's maternal grandfather—particulars[2938] 19-24; made Khān of the Mughūls by Bābur's grandfather 20, 344 n. 2, 352; his friendly relations with Bābur's father 12; receives Tāshkīnt from him 13; defeats him 16; his sons Maḥmūd and Aḥmad _q.v._ and daughters 21-4; his servant Qaṃbar-i-`alī _q.v._ mentioned 92 n. 1, 149, 565 n. 1; [♰892 AH.-1487 AD.]. Khwāja +Yūnas+ _Sajāwandī_—his birthplace in Luhūgur (Logar) 217. +Yūsuf-i-`alī+—musician at entertainments (925) 385, 387, 388, 418. +Yūsuf-i-`alī+ _bakāwal_—on Bābur's service in Bajaur (925) 375. +Yūsuf-i-`alī Kūkūldāsh+—made joint-_dārogha_ in Herāt (911) 293; Bābur's cicerone in Herāt (912) 304; his good dancing 303. +Yūsuf-i-`alī+ _rikābdār_—conveys a letter concerning Hind-āl's pre-natal adoption (925) 374; receives a gift for swimming 401; meets Bābur 418; (?) in Saṃbhal (934) 587; (?) dies there 675, 687 (here `Alī-i-yūsuf); [♰935 AH.-1529 AD.].[2939] Khwāja +Yūsuf+ _Andijānī_, a musician—particulars 4. +Yūsuf-i-ayūb+ _Begchīk_, son of Ayūb—Bābur warned against him (910) 190; takes service with Bābur 196; winters with Nāṣir 241; leaves Bābur for Jahāngīr (911) 190, 254. +Yūsuf+ _badī_`[2940]—particulars 289; [♰897 AD.-1492]. Sayyid +Yūsuf Beg+ _Aūghlāqchī_, son of Murād—particulars 39; waits on Bābur from Samarkand (903) 72; holding Yār-yīlāq for `Alī _Mīrān-shāhī_ (904) 98; dismissed from Khurāsān on suspicion 98; joins Bābur (910) 196; advises him 197; his death 241; his brother Ḥasan and sons Muḥammad-i-yūsuf and Aḥmad-i-yūsuf _q.v._; [♰910 AH.-1505 AD.]. +Yūsuf dārogha+ of Akhsī?—interviews Bābur during the flight (908) 181-2. Sayyid +Yūsuf+ _Machamī_—particulars 118; opposes Bābur (905) 118, 117 n. 2. +Zāhid Khwāja+—abandons Saṃbhal (933) 557; on service (935) 682; [♰953 AH.-1546 AD.]. Shaikh +Zain+ _Khawāfī_—verse-making on the Kābul-river (932) 448; his account of Bābur's regretted couplet 448 n. 5; goes into Dihlī for the Congregational Prayer 476; makes a garden at Āgra 532; recalls a vow to Bābur (933) 553; his _inshā_ on Bābur's renunciation of wine and of the _tamghā_ 553-6; his _Fatḥ-nāma_ of Kānwa 559-574, and chronograms of victory 575; in the left centre of the battle 565; prefers requests for Muḥammad-i-zamān _Bāī-qarā_ (935) 662; invited in verse by Bābur 683; his maternal uncle Abū'l-wajd _q.v._; [♰940 AH.-1533-4 AD.]. +Zainab-sulṯān Begīm+—her granddaughter met by Bābur near Āgra (935) 616. +Zainab-sulṯān Begīm+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Maḥmūd—particulars 48; married to Bābur (910) 48, 711; [♰_cir._ 912 AH.-1506-7 AD.]. +Zard-rūī+—on Bābur's service (935) 668, 669. +Zar-dusht+ ("Zoroaster")—mentioned in a verse 85. Bībī +Zarīf Khātūn+—her daughter Māh-chūchūq 199 n. 1, 342 n. 3. +Zubaida Aghācha+ _Jalāīr_—particulars 267, 273 n. 2; [♰before 911 AH.-1506 AD.]. +Zubaida Khatūn+, wife of Khalīfa Hārūnu'r-rashīd—a surmise concerning her 306 n. 1; [♰216 AH.-831 AD.]. +Zubair+ _Rāghī_—revolts against Aūzbeg rule in Badakhshān (910) 242, (912) 295; defeats Nāṣir _Mīrān-shāhī_ 321; standing firm (913) 340; [♰914 AH.-1508 AD.]. +Zuhra Begī Āghā+ _Aūzbeg_, concubine of Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_—particulars 47, 49; intrigues disastrously with Shaibānī (905) 125-6, (906) 127-8. Mīr Shaikh +Ẕū'n-nūn Beg+ _Arghūn_—particulars 274-5; captures Shāl (Quetta) (884) 429 n. 1; his ward-ship of `Alī _Mīrān-shāhī_ (900) 55; imprisons Khalīfa 55; surrenders Aūrā-tīpā 56; serving Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (901) 57, 60 n. 3;