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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

Chaghānīān (Ḥiṣar-ṣhādmān), located 48 n. 5; an earlier extension of the name 188 n. 4; Nūndāk dependent on 471; a meadow (_aūlāng_) of 129; a ruler in 47; Khusrau Shāh at 93; Bābur in 188. Chāghān-sarāī _bulūk_, Chīghān-sarāī (Kābul), described 212; water of 211-2; name of 212 n. 2; a governor of 227; Bābur's capture of 211 (where for "920" _read_, *366-7 n. 3.) Chahār _see_ Chār. *Chak-chaq pass (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), Bābur traverses 359. Chāldirān (Persia), cart-defence in the battle of 469 n. 1. Chaṃbal-river (C. India), course of 485; Bābur on 509, 585-9, 607, 614; Shāh-i-jahān pours wine into 298 n. 3. Champāran (Bihār, India), revenue of 521. Chanārān (n.w. of Mashhad), Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā's_ victory at 260; located 260 n. 1 and Ferté _q.v._ p. 39 n. 2. Chandāwal (Bajaur, N.W.F.P.), of its name 367 n. 3; torrent of 372; Bābur hunts near 372. Chandawār, Chandwār (U.P. India), correct name of 642 n. 8; water-raising in 487; comings and goings from and to 531, 552, 582; Bābur at 589, 642-3; he loses it 557, 581. Chandīrī (C. India), described 582-3-6; hills of 486; death of a holder of 573; mentioned to fix dates 269, 483, 605; Bābur's capture of 589, 590-2-4-8. Chapar-kuda (U.P. India), identity of with Chaparghatta 650 n. 1; a start from 659 n. 5; Bābur at 650. Chār-dār _col_ (Hindū-kush), 204 n. 4. Chār-dih plain (w. of Kābul-town), the Kābul-river traverses 200 n. 4; *overlooked from Bābur's tomb 710. Chārikār, Chār-yak-kār (Kābul), altitude of 204 n. 4; name of _ib._ 295 n. 1; Judas-trees of 216 n. 3. Chār-jūī ferry (Oxus), 95 (where "Aūbāj" is wrong). Char-shaṃba = Wednesday (Oxus valley _see_ Fr. map Maïmènè), 71 n. 2. Chār-sū (Samarkand), an execution in 196. Chār-yak (Fr. map Maimènè), over-run 295, 94 (where for "San-chīrīk" _read_ San and Chār-yak). Chashma-i-tūra pass (Kābul), Bābur at 403-4. Chāsh-tūpa (Kābul), Bābur at 320. Chatsū (Rājpūtāna), revenue of 521. Chā-tū var. Jāl-tū (Kābul), Bābur at 228. Chatur-mūk (U.P. India), a Ghogrā-crossing at 669, 677. Chaupāra (N.W.F.P. India), an Indus ferry at 206; a limit of Bannū 233; Bābur near 234. Chaupāra (U.P. India), ferry of 677-9. Chausa (Bihār, India), a death at 273 n. 3; Bābur at *603, 659, 660. Chausa or Jūsa (C. India), Bābur at 581. Chīchīk-tū (Balkh-Herāt road), located 300; Bābur at 296. Chihil-dukhtarān (Farghāna), 107, 162; (Herī) 296, 301; (Kābul), 107 n. 1. Chihil-qulba (Kābul), Bābur hunts near 420. Chīkmān-sārāī (Andikhūd, Oxus valley), a defeat at 46, 260, 268. Chīn, Chīna, Kābul trade with 203; a Chīnī cup 407; [for "Chīna" _see_ Khiṯāī]. Chīn-āb, Chān-āb, tract and river (Chen-āb, Panj-āb), course of 485; the Bar in 380 n. 4; a Turk possession 380-2; Bābur resolves to regain 380; he on the river *441, 453; envoys to him from 386; his family reach 659; an appointment to 386. Chīna-qūrghān (Kābul), Bābur at 407. Chīnīūt or Chīnīwat (Panj-āb), a Turk possession 380-2; Bābur resolves to regain 380. Chirāgh-dān (Upper Herī-rūd), Bābur at 309; _see_ Add. Note p. 309 for omitted passage. Chirkh (Kābul), described 217; a mullā of 284; a soldier of 669, 678. Chīr-sū, Chīr-chīk (Tāshkīnt lands), Aḥmad _Miran-shāhī's_ disaster at 17, 25, 31-4-5. Chitr (Panj-āb), Bābur at 645. Chītūr, Chitor (Rājpūtāna), hills of 486; Bābur's plan against 598; Rānā Sangā's 483, 617. Chunār (U.P. India), advance on 652-4; arrival from 657; appointments 682-3; Bābur at 658; road measured from 659; question of identity 682 n. n. Chūpān-ātā (Samarkand), 72 n. 3, 76 (Kohik), 76 n. 4; Bābur crosses 124; [_see_ Kohik]. Chūtīalī (Dūkī, Qandahār), Bābur at 238-9. Cintra (Portugal), oranges of 511 n. 4. Citadel (_arg_) of Kābul, 201; Bālā-ḥiṣār 198 n. 4; —of Samarkand, 77; position of 78 n. 6; Bābur in 134, 141. Dabūsī (Samarkand), Aūzbeg victories at 40, 124, 137. Dahānah (_see_ Fr. map Maimènè), corn from 295; traversed 194-7, 243, 295. Dakka (Kābul), App. E. xx; [_see_ note to Bārān-sū]. Dakkan, Dakhin, Deccan (India), rulers in 482; ? Daknī = Dakkanī 619, 631, Add. Note pp. 619, 631. Dāman (N.W.F.P. India), _see_ Dasht. Dāmghān (Persia), a w. limit of Khurāsān 261; Bāī-qarās captured in 263; Aūzbegs defeated at 618, 622. Dandān-shikan pass (Khurāsān), Bābur crosses 294. Dara-i-bām (Badghīs, Khurāsān), Bābur in 296. Dara-i-gaz (s. of Balkh), a recall from 14. Dara-i-Ghāzī Khān (Panj-āb), 233 n. 3. Dara-i-khẉush (Kābul), Bābur in 27, 251-3. Dara-i-nūr (Kābul) described 210; unique character of 210, 241, App. F; wines of 210, 410, App. G, xxv; monkeys of 211, 492; name of App. F, xxiii, xxiv; a holder of 227, 344; attacked 241; Bābur in 422. Dara-i-pūr-amīn (Kābul), Bābur at 342 (where for "anīm" _read_ amīn). Dara-i-ṣūf (Khurāsān), character of 222.[2945] Dara-i-zang (Khurāsān), defence for planned 191. Dara-i-zindān (Kābul-Balkh road), mountains of 222; located 189 n. 6; Bābur in 189. Darband (Caspian Sea), 564 n. 5. Darband-i-ahanīn (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), a limit of territory 47; a name of Qulūgha, Quhqa, 194; *Bābur at 353; Najm S̤āmī near 359. Dar-i-gham canal (Samarkand) described 76, 84; Bābur on 124-5; (_see_ Kohik-water). Darūta (Kābul), Bābur at 421-2. Darwāza (Bājaur ? N.W.F.P. India), a road through 376. Dasht (Plain), Dāman, Bāzār and Tāq (N.W.F.P. India), names of 229 n. 1, 233 and n. 1; (Mehtar Sulaimān) mountains of 223; limits Bannū 233; a route through 206; Bābur and 229, 235-7, 394. Dasht-i-shaikh, Kurrat-tāziyān (Kohistān, Kābul) described 215. Dāwar (Kohistān, Kābul), Bābur at 421; perhaps Dūr-nāma 421 n. 5. Dhar (C. India), observatory in 79. Dībālpūr (Panj-āb), revenue of 521; water-wheels in 486, 532; commandants in 442-3, 463; Bābur captures 208, *441, 575-8. Dih-i-afghān (Kābul), a rebel in 345; a goer to 402. Dih-i-ghulāmān (Kābul), Bābur at 413. Dih-i-yaq`ūb (Kābul), narrows of 200; water of 241; Bābur at 409, 445. Dihlī, mountains of 485; the capital of Hindūstān 463; a Lūdī possession 481; revenue of 521; Mīwāt and 577; `Ālam Khān and 455-6; Ibrāhīm marches from 465; Sangā gives Bābur rendezvous near 529; Bābur takes possession of 475; appointments to 476; submissive 523; mentioned as Bābur's 561; Khwāja Kalān's inscription in 525; an arrival from to Bābur 526; treasure of 583, *695 n. 1, 617. Dikh-kat (Aūrā-tīpa, Samarkand), described 149, 152; an arrival in 151; Bābur in 149, 150, 633 n. 4. Dilmāū var. (U.P. India), comings and goings from and to 534-7, 681-4; variants of name of 681 n. 3. Dīn-kot, Dhānkot (N.W.F.P. India), location and name of 206 n. 6; limit of Koh-i-jūd 380 and of Bannū 233; routes through 206, 399. Dīrapūr (U.P. India), Bābur in 649. Dīrī pass (Kābul), a route through 209. Diyūl (Samarkand), allies of Bābur in 138. Dīzak (Samarkand), Bābur a fugitive in 148; a governor of 26. "Doāb," _see_ Miyān-dū-āb. Dū-āba (U.P. India), Gangetic changes in 667 n. 2. Dugdūgī (U.P. India), Bābur at 651-2. Dūghāba river (Khurāsān), head-waters of 216. Dūkī (Qandahār), mountains of 223, 236; Bābur in 218, 238, 382. Dūlpūr, "Dholpur" (Rājpūtāna), mountains of 486; Ibrāhīm _Lūdī's_ begs in 593; Bābur and 520, 552, 585, *603-6, 614, 634-5-9, 689; accounts of work in 606, 634, 642; a view from 610. Dūn (Jaswān, Panj-āb); `Ālam Khān in 457; Bābur in 461-2. Dungarpūr (Rājpūtāna), old name of 573 n. 1. Dūr-nāma or -namā'ī (Kohistan, Kābul), described 215; Bābur at 420; (_see_ Dāwar). Dūrrin- or Dīūrrīn-tangī (Kābul), a limit of Shāh-i-Kābul 200, 417. Dū-shaṃba (Badakhshān), Humāyun at 621. Dūshī (n. of Hindū-kush), Khusrau Shāh submits to Bābur at 51, 191-5. Egypt, _see_ Miṣr. Etāwa, Itāwa (U.P. India), hostile to Bābur 523-9, 530; appointments to 530-3, 579, 582; comings and goings from and to 541, 645, 689; Bābur at 644, 686. Faizābād (Badakhshān), *? Bābur and Māhīn at 436. Fakhru'd-dīn-aūlūm (Balkh-Herāt road), Bābur at 296; (_see_ Fr. map Maïmènè). Fanākat, Banākat = Shāhrukhiya (Tāshkīnt), passed by the Sīr-daryā 2; identity of 2 n. 5, 7 n. 5. Fān-tāgh (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), Lake Iskandar in 129; Bābur in 130. Fārāb (W. Turkistan?), a mullā of 643. Farāghīna (Farghāna), Bābur at 168. Farghāna mod. Kokand, description of 1 to 12; extent of 2 n. 3; included in Trans-oxiāna 76; Alps of 223; nick-name of 289; winter-route into 2, *183; capitals of 3, 10, 162; an e. limit of Samarkand 76; Kābul trade of 202; celebrities of 4, 7, 76, 90, 289; `Umar Shaikh's (I and II) 14-7, 24; Bābur succeeds in 1, 29; invasions of 13, 20-9, 54, *183; proposal to dispossess Bābur 168; an arrival in 28; an exit from 190; Bābur's loss of 19 n. 1, *183; Bābur's leaving 187; (_see_ Andijān). Far-kat (n. of Kīndīr-tau _q.v._), a refugee in 149; a mullā of 343; reached from Ghawā (Farghāna, Fr. map, Gava), 179. Farmūl _tūmān_ (Kābul), described 220; a s. limit of Kābul 200; Ūrghūn in 206 n. 2; roads through 206, 231-3-5; Shaikh-zādas of 220, 679 n. 7. Fatḥpūr (U.P. India), Bābur at 643, 686. Fatḥpūr or Natḥpūr (U.P. India), a dependency of 680; lake of 681. Fatḥpūr-Aswa (U.P. India), Bābur at 651. Fīrūzābād (U.P. India), 643 n. 3. Fīrūz-koh (Ghūr-Kābul road), Bābur on 365. Fīrūzpūr (-jhirka; Gurgaon, Panj-āb), described 580 n. 1; Bābur at 580. Fulūl (Badakhshān), Khusrau Shāh and 60; Mughūls from, join Bābur 192 (where _read_ Fulūl). Gagar, Ghaggar, Kakar river (Patiāla, Panj-āb), Bābur visits and describes 464-5; called _rūd_ (torrent) of Banūr and Sanūr 464. Gagar, Kakar (U.P. India), a constituent of the Gogrā, Ghogrā _q.v._; the word Gagar or Kakar used 602. Gamb(h)īr-water (India), Bābur crosses 606. Gandak river (India), course of 485; defence of 663. Gandamak (Kābul), Bābur at 394, 414, 446. Gang-river, Ganges (India), course of 485; changed course of 667 n. 2, 674 n. 6-7 n. 2, 682 n. 1; bridged by Bābur 495, 599, 633; lands and chiefs east of 523, 628, 638, 651; various crossings made of 530, 544, 583-7, 598, 669, 681-4; Bābur on 598 to 665, 666-7; a battle-station east of 371; Bābur swims 603-5, 655, 660. Garm-chashma (Kābul), Bābur at 229, 411, 448. Garm-sīr (S. Afghānistān), *432; a bird of 496. Garzawān (Khurāsān, Fr. map Maïmènè, Ghourzistan), mountains of 222; locates a place 69; a plan for defence of 191; Bābur at 296 (where mis-spelled "Gurzwān"). Gau- or Kau-water (Kābul), Kāfiristān the source of 210. Gawār or Kawār (Kābul), position of 210.