The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
Ghain (Kābul), a punitive force against 253.
Ghaj-davān (Bukhārā), *besieged 360; *battle of 361, 279:
a fugitive from 363.
Gharjistan, Ghurjistān (Khurāsān), mountains of 222;
Bābur near 308;
Muḥammad-i-zamān in 365.[2946]
Ghawā (Farghāna, Fr. map, Gava), Bābur seeks the road to 179,
180-1-*2.
Ghāzipūr (U.P. India), crocodiles of 502;
an assignment on 527;
a holder of 669;
threatened 544, 680;
Bābur at 659;
his boats sent to 679.
Ghaznī = Kābul and Zābulistan, Ghaznīn (Kābul); describes 217, 321;
a N.W. limit to Hindūstān 481;
cold of 219, 526; game in 224;
no honey from 203;
firewood of 223;
highwaymen on road to 228;
wines of, taken to Hindūstān 461, 551;
repairs of a dam at 219, 646;
a route to 206;
locates Zurmut 220;
a Shāhrukhī's 382 (here Kābul); Aūlūgh Beg and 95 n. 2;
Dost Beg buried at 396;
various governors of 227, 253-4, 307, 343-4, 363, 397, 525;
not subjected to Bābur (912 AH.) 300;
rebellion in (912 AH.) 363;
Khwāja Kalān and 447, 526;
Bābur and 199, 228, 239, 240, 330, 526.
Ghūr (Khurāsān), mountains of 222;
w. limit to Kābul 200;
road from Kābul to 214;
a holder of 274.
Ghurām (Panj-āb), an assignment of 525.
Ghūr-bund _tūmān_ (Kābul), described 214;
Nīl-āb (Naulibis) in 206 n. 3;
roads from 205;
a tulip of 215;
Bābur in 195, 294, 314.
Ghūrī (Khurāsān), position of 409;
a route through 94;
corn from 295;
a failure in 546.
Ghurjistān, _see_ Gharjistān.
Ghwālirī pass (on the Gūmāl _q.v._, India), a surmised route through
235 n. 2.
Gibrik or Kibrik (Kāfiristān), people of 207.
Gingūta (Panj-āb), described 462;
an occupation of 457.
Gīrdīz (Kābul), head-quarters in Zurmut 220;
tribesmen on road to 228, 403;
a road for 405;
locates a place 403;
Khwāja Kalān's 525;
Tang-i-waghchān a name for its pass 403 n. 1.
Gogrā, Ghogrā, Gagar, Kakar river (U.P. India), _see_ Sarū.
Gosfand-liyār (n. of Bannū-plain), a sheep-road travelled by Bābur
233.
Goshta (Kābul), 206 n. 4.
Gūālīār, Gwālior (C. India), described 607 to 612, 613-4;
Bābur's building in 520;
hills of 486;
revenue of 521;
forms of the name 486;
ruler of killed at Pānīpat 477;
hostile to Bābur 523-9 (where add "Gūālīār" after Dūlpūr, l. 4 fr.
foot), 539;
assigned 539;
gained 540;
reinforced 547, 557;
Bābur's visit to 605, 552, 607 to 614;
on envoy from 612;
sedition in 688-9, 690, *692 n. 1.
Gūī-water, Gumtī (U.P. India), course of 485 (where for "Gumtī" _read_
(Bābur's) Gūī);
Bābur on 601, 658, 683-4.
Gujrāt (Panj-āb), a tree of;
a ruler in 481;
affairs of 534-5.
Gūk-sarāī (Samarkand), described 41 n. 2, 63, 77;
ascension-stone in 77 n. 5;
a Mīrzā sent to 41.
Gul-i-bahār (Kohistān, Kābul), described (without name) 214-5;
fish-catching in 226, Bābur at 320-1, 406-7.
Gūmāl valley and river (N.W.F.P. India), Bābur and 235-6.
Guṃbazak pass (Khurāsān; _see_ Fr. map Maïmènè), Bābur at 294.
Guṃhaz-i-chaman (Farghāna), Bābur at 176.
Gūra-khattrī (Panj-āb), Bābur and 230, 294.
Gurgān-sū (s.e. of the Caspian), Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ swims 259,
260 n. 6.
Guzar var. (Qandahār?), Bābur at 332.
Hā-darwesh waste (Farghāna), described 9, 9, 151;
*birthplace of Bābur's legendary son 358 n. 2.
Haft-bacha pass (Hindū-kush), described 205.
Ḥājī-ghāt pass (Hindū-kush), turns Hindū-kush 205 n. 2.
Ḥājipūr (Bihār, India), Bābur and 674;
a governor of 663 n. 6.
Ḥājī-tarkhān = Astrakhān (on the Caspian), a chief of 258.
Haldī-guẕr (U.P. India), location of 668 n. 2, 669 n. 1, 671 n. 1;
Bābur's men cross 668-9, 675.
Ḥalwā-chashma (Khurāsān), a victory at 260.
Hamadān (Persia), a saint of 211; *a soldier of 700.
Hamtātū pass (Panj-āb), Bābur crosses 381.
Hangū (N.W.F.P. India), Bābur at 231-2.
Harmand-, Halmand-river (Afghānistān), source of 216;
a drowning in 307.
Hārū, Kacha-kot water (Panj-āb), Bābur crosses 379, 452;
an Indus-ford near 206 n. 5.
Hash(t)-nagar (N.W.F.P. India), a limit of Kābul 200;
desolate 207;
rhinoceros in 490;
birds of 497, 500;
locates a place 376;
Bābur advised to raid 410-1.
Hasht-yak (W. Turkistān), Bābur near 151.
Hātya (Panj-āb), limit of a clan 452 n. 5.
Hazārasp (Khwārizm), a holder of 50.
Herī, Herāt (Khurāsān), description of 304 to 306;
Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā's_ birthplace 256,
conquest of 134,
splendid rule in 273,
ease in 261,
feast in 264,
delay of a pilgrim in 284,
reception of fugitives 243,
burial in 293;
—joint-rule in 293, 326;
weakness before Aūzbeg attack on 296-9, 326;
—Shaibānī's capture of 207, 326-8-9;
—Ismā`īl _Ṣafawī's_ capture of *350-5;
—`Ubaidu'l-lāh _Aūzbeg_ and *434;
—`Ali-sher _Nawā'ī_ in 4, 271, 286-7;
Banā'ī and 286-7;
*Shāh Beg and 365, 429, 430;
Khwānd-amīr and *432, 605;
fugitives from 331;
governors of 24, 37, 274 (Koh-dāman), 275, *633;
envoys to Bābur from *436;
a Begīm comes from 267;
Maṣ`ūma brought from 330;
Bābur at 300-1-2, 302 to 307;
his marriage with Māhīm in *704;
—locates a place 25;
fixes a date 258.
Ḥimār or Khimār (? Khurāsān), a passer through 260.
Hind, Hindūstān, Hindustānāt—a northern limit of Kābul 200;
routes between it and Kābul 206;
a journey to Makka made from Kābul through 26;
trade and traders 202, 331, 416;
Jats and Gujūrs in 454;
a saint honoured in 238;
a rāja of 219;
comings and goings to and from 250, 265, 267, 368;
Khwānd-amīr in *432, 605 and n. 6;
—Astronomical Tables in 79;
names for outside places used in 202;
gold from 446;
titles in 537;
building style in 609;
greetings in 640;
mentioned by Bābur in a verse 584;
Hind-āl named from 385;
of Bīānā in 529;
of the Betwa 597;
—a seemingly limited use of the name Hindūstān 386;
of its three names used by Bābur, Hind 26, 219, 385, 525, 532, 577,
577 n. 6, 578,
Hindūstānāt 485,
Hindūstān usually;
—Hindūstān the Less (?) 46 and 46 n. 4;
—Lūdī rise in 383;
Lūdī possessions in 463, 480;
Ibrāhīm's accession in 385;
*torn by faction 439;
envoys to Bābur from *426, *436;
Bābur's comments on its chiefs 219, 385, 459;
Farmūlī ascendancy in 220;
begs in 387;
armies in 547;
—Tīmūr's conquest of 382;
his employment in Samarkand of workmen from 77;
pictures of his victories in 78;
tradition of a soldier in his army of 150;
—Bābur's persistent wish to regain Turk possessions in 340, 377,
380-1-2, 478-9;
working-out of his desire for *426;
varied opposition to his aims 478;
*his five expeditions to:—
910 AH.—39, 229, 382;
925 AH.—378 et seq., 478, 480;
926 AH.—*428, *429;
its frustration *429, *430, *441;
930 AH.—575, *442;
its frustration 442;
932 AH.—*444, 445, 479;
—one start frustrated in Kābul 913, AH. 341-3;
`Ālam Khān asks and obtains help in *439, *441, 455;
Daulat Khān proffers allegiance *440;
*Bābur's prayer for a sign of victory *440;
his fifth expedition fixes dates 269, 545;
indications that only the fifth aimed at Dihlī *429, *444, 480;
his decisive victories, at Pānīpat 475,
at Kānwa 574;
references to his conquest 220, 561;
some of his Begs wish to leave 524-5, 579, 584;
his Hindūstān poems 642, App. Q;
his ease in and hints at leaving 617, 645, 686;
his family brought to 646, 686;
—the *_Akbar-nāma_ chronicles no public events of 936-937 AH.
in 682;
*Bābur's journey to Lāhor (936 AH.) may point to his leaving
Hindūstān 707;
*Humāyūn's arrival in 696, 707;
*on Bābur's intended disposal of Hindūstān 702 to 708;
*burial of his body in 709
and later removal from 709-710;
—Bābur's description of Hindūstān 478 to 531,
_viz._:—Introduction, on earlier Tramontane expeditions into 478
to 480,
boundaries and capital of 480,
rulers in 932 AH. 481,
varied climate,
character of and northern mountains 484;
rivers and Arāvallī range 485;
irrigation 486,
other particulars 487,
—mammals 488,
birds 493,
aquatic animals 501,
fruits 503,
flowers 513;
—seasons of the year 515,
days of the week 516,
division of time 516,
weights and measures 517,
modes of reckoning 518;
—Hindūs in 518;
—defects and advantages of 518-9, 531, 532,
revenues 520-1.
Hindū-kush mountains, n. boundary of Kābul 200-4;
connected ranges 210, 380;
called Hindū-kush in Kābul 485;
account of their prolongation in Hind (_i.e._ Himālayas), 485;
roads and passes of 204-5;
the clouds a hindrance to bird-migration 224;
limits of territory fixed by 47-9, 194;
an episode on 270 *Bābur's crossing 930 AH. 442.
Ḥiṣār-fīrūza (Panj-āb), revenue of 521;
given to Humāyūn 465, 466, 528;
opposition near 540.
Ḥiṣār (-shādmān; Transoxiana), mountains of 222;
clans from 228;
Kābul trade with 202;
—Abā-bikr and 51;
Maḥmūd and 47-9;
Mas`ūd and 52, 64, 71, 93-5, 261;
Bāī-sunghar and 52, 61, 96, 110-2;
Ḥusain and 48, 57-8-9, 61, 130, 191, 260-3, 275;
Bābur traverses 128, 130, 187-8,
moves for *352,
takes 37, 262, *352-3,
defends *358, 471,
attacked in 345, *361-2,
leaves 362-3;
—Mughūls leave 58
and rebel 105;
goers to 104, 141;
Shaibānī and 192, 244, *362;
abandoned by the Aūzbegs 622-4;
Khusrau Shāh and _see s.n._;
*threefold catastrophe in 362;
Humāyūn ordered to attack 625;
Qāsim _qūchīn_ and 66;
a governor in 46-7;
occupied for Bābur 640.
Hormuz (Persia), Farghāna almonds imported to 9.
Hūnī (Kābul), Bābur at 405.
Hūpīān pass, Ūpīān (Kābul), Bābur crosses 195;
locates a place 647 n. 3.
Hurūr (Panj-āb), taken from Bābur 464.
Hushīār (Farghāna), a subdivision of Asfara 7;
Bābur a refugee in 7, *181;
his gifts to envoys from 633.
Ilyāk-sū, Kāfirnighān (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), locates a place 48 n. 5.
Indrī (U. P. India), an arrival at 456.
Indus, _see_ Sind-daryā.
`Irāq (Persia), Kābul trade with 202;
various captures of 49, 51, 280, 336;
envoys to and from 540, 583, 666;
other comings and goings from and to 20, 46, 260-2-8, 275, 282-7,
291-4 n. 3, 622;
Bābur's gifts to kinsfolk in 522.
`Iraqain, _i.e._ `Irāq-i-`ajam and `Irāq-i-`arabī, places noted for
cold in 219.
`Iraq-pass (n. w. of Kābul), a presumed crossing of 294 n. 3.
Īrij or Īrich (C. India), Bābur at 590.
Ishkīmīsh (Qūndūz?), not in Badakhshān 288;
on a named route 321;
military action at 60, 192, 243.
Ispahān (Persia), a governor of 635 n. 6.
Istālif (Kābul), described 216;
a garden at 246;
fishing at 226;
Bābur at 246, 406, 416-8.
Jagdālik pass (Kābul), Bābur crosses 229, 341, 414.
Jahān-namā fort (Bhīra, Panj-āb), Bābur in 384 (where for "nūma"
_read_ namā).