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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

becomes an ally of the rebel Badī`u-z-zamān (902) 71, (903) 94-5, 260; invited by Ḥusain to co-operate against Shaibānī (910) 190, 191; goes for refuge to Ḥusain 243; dealings with his son Muqīm 198, 227, 248; his title Lion-of-God 281; part of the coalition government in Herāt (911) 293; defeats Aūzbegs (912) 296; social matters 298, 299, 307; hears plain speaking from Qāsim Beg _qūchīn_ 304; his futile opposition to Shaibānī (913) 326; defeated and killed 275, 327; his retainer Jān-aīrdī; [♰913 AH.-1507 AD.]. Index II. Geographical. Ābāpūr (S.E. of Āgra), Bābur at 642-3. Abā-qūrūq (Kābul), Bābur at 197. Āb-burdan (Upper Zar-afshān), description of 152; spring and pass of 152; a route through 40 n. 4. Āb-dara (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), Bābur takes up good ground at 353. Āb-dara (Hindū-kush), a winter-route through 205, 242, 321, 351. Āb-i-khān (Farghāna), Taṃbal in 110, 112. Āb-i-rahmat = Qarā-sū _q.v._ (Samarkand), mentioned to locate Kān-i-gil 78, 81. Āb-istāda (S.E. of Ghaznī) described 239; Bābur at 218, 239. Abīward (Khurāsān), Anwārī's birthplace 260 n. 1. Āb-i-yār-qūrūq (Samarkand), Bābur in 66. Abuha or Anuha (N.W.F.P. India), limits Sawād 400. Ābūn- or Ātūn-village (Kābul), Bābur at 407. Ādampūr or Ārampūr-_pargana_ (U.P. India), Bābur at 650, 684; 682 n. 1; location of 650 n. 3; 684 n. 3. Adīnapūr (Kābul), on the Surkh-rūd 209; of the name 207, App. E, xxi; a dārogha's head-quarters 208; the Bāgh-i-wafā near 421, 443; Bābur at 229. Adūsa-and-Mūrī (U.P. India), Bābur at 645. Afghānistān, Bābur's limitation of the name 200; demerits of its mountains 223. Āgra, revenue of 521; `Ālam Khān plans to attack 455-6, 474; estimate of Pānīpat casualties made in 474; submits to Bābur 523; exhaustion of treasure in 617; a military rendezvous 676; supplies from 685; hot season in 524; measurement of Kābul-Āgra road 629; water-raising in 487; Bābur takes oleanders to 610; his workmen in 520, 630, 642; keeps Rāmẓān in 584; receives letters from 639; comes and goes to and from 478, 548, 581, 606, 686; others ditto 475, 526, 540, 576-8, 606, 621-4, 650; mentioned to locate places 529, 531 (2), 588, 597, 641, 650-8, 680. Āhangarān (on the Herī-rūd, Khurāsān), 308 n. Āhangarān-julgā[2941] (S.E. of Tāshkīnt), Bābur at 90, 152, 161. Ahār-passage (Ganges), Bābur's troops at 528. Aībak, mod. Hāībak, Fr. map Boukhara, Hai-bagh (Kābul-Balkh route), Bābur at 189; a rebel near 546, and for location 546, n. 2. Aīkarī-yār (Kābul), Bābur's scouts fight near 196. Aīkī-sū-ārā[2942] = Mīyān-dū-āb = Between-the-two-waters (Farghāna) an alternative name Rabāṯik-aūrchīn 88; located 88, n. 2; Mughūls in 88, 105; Bābur in 114; Taṃbal in 116. Aīlāīsh- or Aīlāmīsh-daryā, ? Qarā-daryā (Farghāna), Bābur's men defeated on, 105; game near 114. Aīlāk-yīlāq (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), Bābur at 187-8, 194. Aīlchī (E. Turkistan), of the name 50, n. 2. Aīndīkī var. (Kābul), Bābur gathers tooth-picks near 407. `Aīsh-pushla (Farghāna), Taṃbal near 106; Bābur near 165. Aītmāk-dābān (Samarkand) described 83; a boundary 84; 64 n. 1; 80 n. 2. Āī-tūghdī (Kābul) position of 253 n. 3; Bābur at 253. Ajar Fort (in Kāhmard, or Kahmard _q.v._ Fr. map Maïmènè), Bābur's and his followers' families left in 189; various occurrences in 197, 243, 293; a plan to defend 191; gifts to its peasantry 633 n. 5. Akhsī, Akhsīkīt (Farghāna), described 9; book-name of 9 and n. 4; position of 13; —`Umar Shaikh's capital 10; exploit at 16; death at 13; —a rebel at 26; a death in 40; appointments to 32, 115; a notable of 110; a village of 171; a melon of 82; besieged 31-2, 54; threatened 44; army of, called up against Bābur 110; comings and goings from and to 87, 90, 101-3, 124, 161, 176, 180, 182, 183; river-fight below 102; Bābur at 54, 116, 170-1-2; apportioned to Jahāngīr 118-9; an army hostile to Bābur near 162; promised to Bābur 168; his attempt to defend 173-6; his flight from 176, 396; Shaibānī defeats the Chaghatāī Khāns near 18, 182, 351-6. Akrīāda-_pargana_ (Panj-āb), a holder of 453. Alāī-tāgh (Farghāna), on a Ḥiṣār—E. Turkistān route 129; sub-districts of 162. Alangār-_tūmān_ (Kābul), described 210; a constituent of the true Lamghānāt 210; a holder of 241; Bābur in 424. Ālā-qūrghān = Ikhtiyāru'd-dīn (Herāt), Bābur reported captive in 313; the Bāī-qarā households in 327; captured by Shaibānī 328. Ālā-sāī-_bulūk_ (Kābul), described 220-1; wines of 221. Ālā-tāgh (s. of Qalāt-i-ghilzāī, Afghānistān), over-run 249.[1] Alexander's Iron-wall (Darband _q.v._ Caspian Sea), mentioned in metaphor 564; purpose of 564 n. 3. Alexandria ad Caucasum (Kābul), site of 214 n. 7. Alghū-tāgh var. Aūlūgh-tāgh (mid-Oxus valley), a Bāī-qarā arrival near 60. `Alī-ābād (Samarkand), Shaibānī in 135. `Alī-masjid (Khaibar-route), Bābur passes 394, 411-2, 450; description of its spring 412 n. 1. `Alī-shang-_tūmān_ (Kābul), described 210; a constituent of the tune Lamghānāt 210; a holder of 241; Bābur in 342, 424. Allāhābād (India), _see_ Pīāg. Almālīgh (E. Turkistān), depopulation of 1; located 2 n. 1; referred to 162 n. 2. Almār (s. of Maïmènè, Fr. map), Bābur passes through, 296. Ālmātū (E. Turkistān), depopulation of 1; located 2 n. 1; referred to 162 n. 2; *a battle near 349. Altī-shahr (E. Turkistān), an occasional name of Yītī-kīnt 11 n. 6. Alwār, Alūr (Rājpūtāna), a rebel leaves 545; an arrival from 687; mentioned to fix limits 577-8-9; gift made of its treasure 519; an appointment to 578. Aṃbahar (N.W.F.P. India?), on a suggested route 376; pass of 376. Aṃbāla (Panj-āb), Bābur at 465. `Aṃbar-koh (Qūndūz), a fight on 61. Amla (Kābul), Bābur at 422. Amrohā (U.P. India), revenue assigned of 685. Amū-darya, Oxus, Bābur on 48, 189, 249, others on 57, 74, 193, 244, *359[2943]; of Trans-Amū tribes 242; limits territory 49; *Bābur's fortunes lost beyond 426; —ferries of, Aūbāj, 93, 95 (where for Aūbāj read Chār-jūī), 110, 189, Chārjūī (which read for Aūbāj), Kilīf 57, 191, Kīrkī 191, Tīrmīz 191. Andar-āb (n. of Hindū-kush), a n. boundary of Kābul 200; mountains of 221; roads from 205; a holder of 403; comings through 51, 193 (Bābur's), 196. Andarābā (Panj-āb), Bābur at 391-2. Andijān (Farghāna), description of 3-4; the capital, sport in, pure Turkī in, climate of 4 —its water 5, mountains of 15, 55, 102, 118, 125; tribes of 162; a grass of 221; its Chār-bāgh 29; celebrities of 4, 280; mentioned to locate places, etc., 4, 8, 10, 16, 113, 396; its railway 30 n. 5; given to `Umar Shaikh I and II, 14; people of led into captivity 20, 22; Bābur its governor 29 n. 1; succeeds in it 29; attacks on 27, 30, 54, 87-8, 106-8, 161-8, 171, 192; captures of 18, 20, 89, 90, 122, 192, 244; demanded from Bābur 87, 168, 318, 351-2; Aūzbeg chiefs wait on Bābur in 58; lost by Bābur 89-90, 122; his attempts to regain 92-7-8, 162-5; succeeds, 103-4, 115; proposed disposition of 118; the cause of his second exile from 105; he compares it with Samarkand 123; a raid near 164; its army on service, 48, 87, 101, 171-2; occupied by Sa`īd Khān 351-7, 362; commandants of 25, 32, 44; gifts sent to 633; comings and goings to and from 32, 58, 64, 102-3-6-8-9, 113, 145, 150, 165-8, 170, *183, 399; Bābur's comings and goings to and from 55, 66, 71, 114-9, 174; hint of another visit 358 and n. 2; (_see_ Farghāna). Andikān (Farghāna), 161 _see_ Andijān. Andikhūd (w. of Balkh, Khurāsān), fighting near 46, 260; plan to defend 191; Sayyids of 266-7-8; a commandant of 279; a traitor in 325. Anwār, ? Unwāra (near Āgra), Bābur at 589, 641. Āqār-tūzī (Samarkand), a battle near 34. Āq-būrā-rūd (Farghāna), rapid descent of 5 n. 3. Āq-kūtal (between Soghd and Tāshkīnt), a force passes 111. Āq-qāchghāī (Aūrā-tīpā, Samarkand), a rapid message through 25. Āq-sū (Aūrā-tīpā, Samarkand), Aḥmad _Mīrānshāhī_ dies on 33. Āq-sū (Eastern Turkistān), 20 n. 5, 29 n. 5. `Arabia, a bird of 497. Arāt (Kābul), App. G. xxv. Archa-kīnt (Farghāna), a road through 116. Archīān-qūrghān (Farghāna), Taṃbal enters 117; scene of the Chaghatāī Khāns' defeat 117 n. 2, *182, *351 (where read Archīān for "Akhsī"), 356 (here read near Akhsī). Argand-āb (Qandahār) irrigation off-takes of 332 n. 4, 333 n. 4. Ārī-_pargana_, Arrah (Bihār, India), Bābur in 664-6. Arind-water, Rind (U.P. India), Bābur on 684. Arūpār (U.P. India), _see_ Rūpār. Arus-, Urus-, Arys-sū (W. Turkistān), a battle near 16. Asfara (Farghāna), described 7; Persian-speaking Sārts of 7 and n. 3; a holder of 115; Bābur takes refuge in 7 and sends gifts to Highlanders of 633 and n. 4; Bābur captures 53; Bābur in a village of 123. Asfīdūk (Samarkand), Bābur in 131-2. Aspara or Ashpara (Mughūlistān), Abū-sa`id _Mīrān-shāhī_ leads an army to 20. Astar-āb (e. of Pul-i-chiragh, Fr. map Maïmènè), tribes in 255. Astarābād (Khurāsān), partridge-cry in 496; oranges of 510; a poet of 290 n. 3; Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ and 46, 95, 259, 260, 261, 272; assignments of 61-9, 70, 94; commandants in 272 (Nawā'ī), 275; two Bāī-qarās put to death in 262, 266. Atak, "Attock" (on the Indus), locates Nīl-āb 206 n. 3, and Bābā Walī _Qandahārī's_ shrine 332 n. 4. Atar (Kābul), located 211; Bābur at 343, 422-3. Aūba, Ubeh, "Obeh" (on the Herī-rūd), a holder of 274. Aūd (U.P. India), _see_ Oude, Oudh. Aūlābā-tū (Ghazni), Bābur at 323. Aūlīā-ātā (E. Turkīstān), 2 n. 1. Aūlūgh-nūr (Kābul), located 209; a route past 209; on the "nur" of the name App. F, xxiii; Bābur at 421-5. Aūnjū- or Ūnjū-tūpa (Farghāna), Bābur at 110. Aurangābād (Ḥaidarābād, Dakhin, India), a grape of 77 n. 2. Aūrā-tīpā (between Khujand and the Zarafshān, Samarkand), its names Aūrūsh and Aūrūshna 77; an alp of 25; Dikh-kat a village of 149, 154; locates Khwās 17; escapes to 124, 141, 156; transfers of, to `Umar `Shaikh 17, to Aḥmad 27, 30, 35, to Muḥ. Ḥusain _Dūghlāt_ 97; Aḥmad dies in 33; The Khān in 92; Bābur's family in 136; Bābur in 98-9, 124, 149 (2); enemies of Bābur in 152, 154. Aūrganj or Ūrgenj (Khwarizm), a claim to rule in 266. Aūrgūt (Samarkand), surrenders to Bābur, 68. Aūsh, Ūsh (Farghāna), described 4; a trick of the ragamuffins of 6; course of its water 10; appointments to 32, 65; a raid near 25; an arrival from 112; fugitive to 168; dependencies of 109, 110; Taṃbal and 103-7, 123; Bābur's men in 114; oppression of 172;