The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
[Elphinstone Codex _passim_ and Ḥaidarabad Codex, except on p. 79
where "Mandu" occurs, write Mandāū].
Mandīsh, Mandesh (N.W.F.P. India), Bābur at 375.
Mandrāwar _tūmān_ (Kābul), described 210;
one of the three constituents of the true Lamghānāt 210;
a village of 424;
holders of 229, 344;
Bābur in 321, 421.
Mānikpūr (U.P. India), revenue, of 521;
elephants in 489.
Maqām (N.W.F.P. India), perhaps mod. Mardān 377 n. 2;
Bābur near 377-8.
Marāgha (Āẕar-bāyigān, Caspian Sea), astronomical Tables constructed
at 79.
Marghīnān (Farghāna), described 6;
bullies of 7[2947];
a celebrity of 7, 76;
locates a place 7;
comings and goings from and to 30, 97 n. 2, 173;
lost to Bābur 30;
recovered by him 99-100;
rebel attack on 101-2;
Bābur in 103, 123, 162-9, 172.
Marūchāq (on the Murgh-āb, Khurāsān), Āūzbeg raiders defeated at 296.
Marwār (Rājpūtāna), Sangā's approach from 544 n. 5.
Mashhad (Khurāsān), a celebrity of 285;
a Bāī-qarā holder of 263, 296, 329-30;
held by Aūzbegs 534, 623;
T̤ahmāsp's route to 622 n. 3.
Masht (Ghaznī?), a tribe in 323.
Masjid-i-jauza (Farghāna), described 5.
Masjid-i-laqlaqa (Samarkand), described 80.
Masjid-i-maquṯa` (Samarkand), described 79.
Mastūng, Quetta (Balūchistān), Shāh Beg and 337, *427 (where read
Mastūng).
Mātarīd (Samarkand), a celebrity of 75.
Māwarā'u'n-nahr, Transoxiana, name of the country of Samarkand 74;
name includes Farghāna 76;
melons and wines of 82-3;
bullies in 7 (_see s.n._ Marghīnān for an omission);
Leaders of Islām born in 7, 75-6;
three strong forts in 3;
an appointment in its interests 61, 85;
in Aūzbeg hands 427, 480, 618;
*Bābur's desire to regain 697 n. 1 (and _s.n._ Bābur).
Mehtar-Sulaimān range (Afghān border), a shrine on 238;
Bābur and 236-8.
Merv, Marv (Khurāsān), comings and goings from and to 135-7, 296, 301,
*357, 623;
chiefs of 261, 244;
`Alī-sher winters in 287;
Bābur's sister in 18, *352;
Shaibānī defeated and killed near 318, *350;
`Ubaid and 534, 618, 622.
Mewāt, Mīwāt (Rājpūtāna), revenue of 521;
hills of 486;
account of 577-8-9;
holders of 523, 551;
Bābur orders a raid on 551;
Kānwa casualties on the road to 577;
Bābur at 578.
Mīān-dū-āb, "Doab" (between Ganges and Jumna), revenue of 521;
archers of 526-8, 551-7;
a _pargana_ bestowed in 539;
`Ālam Khān goes to 457;
Ibrāhīm advances into 467;
Bābur puts down a rebel in 576.
Mīān-kāl, Miyān-kāl (Samarkand), returns to Bābur 135;
Aūzbegs in 622.
Mīān-kalāī (N.W.F.P. India), Bābur in 373;
? a dū-āb 373 n. 6.
Mīān-wilāyat, Miyān-wilāyat (U.P. India), revenue of 521.
Mīch-grām (Kābul), a tribe in 413;
Bābur at 414.
Mīl (Kāfiristān), position of 210.
Milwat, Malot (Panj-āb), prisoners sent to 461.
Milwat, Malot (U.P. India), Bābur's capture of 457-8, 461.
Minār-hill (Kābul), Bābur crosses 314.
Mīr Ghiyaṣ-langar (Khurāsān), Bābur at 307-8.
Mīrzā-rabāṯ, (Farghāna), w. wind over 9 n. 2, *183.
Misr, Egypt, compared with a Samarkand _tūmān_ 84;
*Napoleon's task in 356.
Mīta-kacha (Kohistān, Kābul), described 214.
Mughūlistān, mountains of 222;
game in 325;
Aspara in 20;
Yūnas Khān in 12;
a Mughūl _tūmān_ enters 20;
*Mughūls forced to go far from 351;
a dweller in 114;
Bābur thinks of going to 158, *184.
Muḥammad Āghā's village (Kābul), Bābur at 405.
Muḥammad Chap's Bridge (Samarkand), 72.
Muḥammad-fajj (N.W.F.P. India), meaning of the name 229 n. 5;
Bābur at 231.
Multā-kundī (Kābul), defined 211.
Multān (Panj-āb), the Five-rivers meet near 485;
a dependency of 237;
fowlers migrated from 225;
Abā-bikr at 260;
Daulat Khān and 441-2;
`Askarī recalled from *603, 605;
Kāmrān and 645, 699.
Mungīr (Bengal), Bābur's envoy to 676.
Munīr (Bihār, India), Bābur at 666-7, 670.
Munūghul-tāgh (Farghāna), variants in name of 8 n. 5;
mines and malarial influence of 8;
surmised action on wind of (here Mogol-tau) 9 n. 2;
(_see_ Abū'l-ghāzī, Désmaisons p. 12).
Muqur (Afghānistān), Bābur at 345.
Mūra-pass (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), 58 n. 1;
Bābur crosses 129 (not named).
Murgh-āb river and fort (Khurāsān), Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ and 191, 260;
Bābur on 285, 297-9, 300;
Shaibānī at 327.
Murghān-koh (Qandahār), position of 332 n. 4;
Bābur at 336.
Mūrī and Adūsa, Bāburpūr (U.P. India), Bābur at 644.
Muttra (U.P. India), _see_ Mahāwīn.
Naghr or Naghz (Kābul), a s. limit of Kābul 200;
position of 206, 231-3.
Nagūr, Nagor (Rājpūtāna), revenue of 521.
Nakhshab (Samarkand), _see_ Qarshī.
Namangān (Farghāna), new canal of App. A, ii, n. 1;
Bābur near 117.
Nānāpūr (U.P. India), Bābur at 657.
Nānī (Ghaznī), Bābur at 240;
old Nānī plundered 254.
Napoleon's* task in Egypt compared 356.
Nardak* (U.P. India), a hunting-ground 701.
Nārīn (n. of Hindū-kush), a fugitive through 321.
Nārīn-river (n. arm of Saiḥūn), 88 n. 2, App. A, ii.
Nārnūl (U.P. India), an assignment on 677.
Nasūkh (Farghāna), Bābur at 92.
Natḥpūr or Fatḥpūr (U.P. India), Bābur near 680-1.
Naugrām (U.P. India), Bābur meets his sister at 689 n. 3.
Nijr-aū _tūmān_ (Kābul), described 213;
mountains of 222;
products of 203, 213;
boiled wine in 213;
a dependency of 220;
locates Ālā-sāī 220;
Bābur in 253, 420-1,
his frontier-post of 213 n. 2.
Nīl-āb (Indus), various instances of the name 206 n. 3;
a tribal limit 378, 387;
routes to Kābul from 206;
old Nīl-āb located 392;
comings and goings from and to 250, 265, 399, 419, 422, 647, 659;
given to Humāyūn 391;
Bābur at 392,
counts his army at 451.
Nile (The),* used as an illustration 9 n. 2;
Alexander takes the Indus for 206 n. 3.
Nīng-nahār _tūmān_ (Kābul) described 207-9;
its book-name Nagarahār 207;
meaning of the name 208, App. E;
not included in the Lamghānāt 210;
a dependency of 213;
waters of 209, App. E;
wintering tribes 242;
a bird of 493;
division of hot and cold climates n 229;
Bāgh-i-wafā laid out in 208;
holders of 227, 317, 344, 421;
an arrival from 345;
Bābur at 342.
Nīrah-tū or Tīrah-tū, Kalīūn (Herī), Shaibānī's family in 343.
Nirhun (Bihār, India), Bābur at 674.
Nirkh-pass, Takht-pass (Kābul), Bābur crosses 228.
Nīshāpūr (Khurāsān), mentioned as on a route 622 n. 3.
Nīshīn-meadow (Herī), Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ and 95, 261.
Nū-kīnt (Farghāna), locates an enemy 116;
threatened 170.
Nulibā (U.P. India), Bābur at 657.
Nūndāk, Ḥ.S. Nawāndāk (Chaghānīān _q.v._), located 471;
Barlās family of 51 (where "Badakhshān" is wrong);
Bābur near 129;
Aūzbegs retire to 471.
Nūr-gal (Kābul), described 211;
meaning of its name, App. F, xxiii;
holders of 227, 334;
Bābur at 343, 423.
Nūr-lām (Kābul), _see_ App. F, xxiii.
Nūr-valley (Kābul), _see_ Dara-i-nūr.
Nūsh-āb (Farghāna), Bābur near 114.
Otrār (W. Turkistān), _see_ Aūtrār.
Oude, Oudh, Aūd, Adjodhya (U.P. India), revenue of 521;
river-crossings to 669;
locates places 601-2, 679 n. 2;
army of 684-5;
a bird of 495;
appointment to 544;
? Bābur at 680 and n. 2;
his Mosque in App. U.
Paklī, Pakhlī (Panj-āb), formerly part of Kashmīr 484.
Palghar (Samarkand), limit of Samarkand on upper Zar-afshān 152.
Pamghān range and village, Paghmān (Kābul), described 215-6;
village destroyed by earthquake 247;
Shāh Begīm's 318;
*snows seen from Bābur's burial-garden 710.
Pāmīr routes, *spring re-opening of 695.
Pānī-mālī or -mānī (N.W.F.P. India), the road to 376.
Pānīpat (Panj-āb), battles at 472 n. 1;
Bābur's victory at 457, 469, 470-1-2, 534.
Panj-āb (India), of the name App. E, xx;
*Bābur's power in 426, 430;
*Daulat Khān's strength in 412, 443;
Bābur's journey to (937 AH.), 604 n. 1, *698.
Panj-dih, Pand-dih (Khurāsān), Aūzbeg raiders beaten at 296.
Panjhīr, Panj-sher _tūmān_ (Kābul), described 214;
pass-roads of 195-6, 205;
highway-men of 214;
river of 407;
a _dārogha_ in 250.
Panj-kūra (N.W.F.P. India), Bābur at 373-4.
Pāp (Farghāna), holds fast for Bābur 91, 101;
affairs in 171-4-6 n. 3.
Pārandī-pass (Hindū-kush), described 205;
height of 204 n. 4.
Parashāwar, Peshāwar (N.W.F.P. India), a limit of Kābul 200;
beauty of flowers near 393;
rhinoceros of 490;
partridges in 496;
Bigrām near 230 n. 2;
Bābur and 382, 393, 410-2.
Parhāla (Panj-āb), a Kakar stronghold 387-9;
described and taken by Bābur 396-7.
Parsarū-river (U.P. India), Bābur on 682-3.
Parsrūr, Parsarūr (Panj-āb), an assignment on 684;
Bābur at 458;
G. of India form of name Pasrūr 684 n. 1.
Pārwān (Kohistān, Kābul), described 214-5;
wind of 201, 224;
road and pass of 205;
fishing in 226, 406;
wines and flowers of 215.
Pashāghar (Samarkand), described 97;
a native of 188;
Bābur at 97-8, 148.
Pātakh-i-āb-i-shakna (Kābul), meaning of the name 403 n. 2;
Bābur at 403.
Pawat-pass (Mehtar Sulaimān range), Bābur crosses 238.
Pehlūr, Phillaur (Panj-āb), Bābur at 458.
Pesh-grām (N.W.F.P. India), Bābur at 373.
Pīāg, Allāhābād (U.P. India), Bābur at 654-5;
incident of his march from 657.
Pīchghān (Kābul), bird-catching in 220;
punitive attack on 253.
Pīch-i-Kāfiristān (n. of Kābul country), wines of 212;
hostile to Bābur 212.
Pīr Kānū, _see_ Sakhī-sarwār.
Pul-i-chirāgh, Bīl-i-chirāgh (Balkh-Herāt road), located 69;
a victory at 69, 260.
Pul-i-sālār (Herāt), 329-30.
Pul-i-sangīn (Ḥiṣār-shadmān), *Tīmūr's and Bābur's victories at 353-4.
Pushta-i-`aīsh (Farghāna), forces near 106, 165.
Qabā (Farghāna), swamp of 31;
invaded 30;
Bābur at 123, 162.
Qa`bādīān (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), Bābur at 188;
taken for him 640.
Qabil's tomb, _i.e._ Cain's (Kābul), Bābur at 415.
Qāīn (Khurāsān), held by a Bāī-qarā 296, 301.
Qaiṣār (s.w. of Maïmènè, _see_ Fr. map), Bābur at 296.
Qalāt-i-ghilzāī (Qandahār), Bābur takes 248-9, 339;
road south from 333;
a governor of 340;
fugitives join Bābur near 331;
Hindūstān traders at 331.
Qalāt-i-nādirī (n. of Mashhad, Khurāsān), birthplace of Nādir Shāh 263
n. 4, 329 n. 4;
Bāī-qarā holders of 263, 329.
Qanauj (U.P. India), revenue of 521;
appointments in 265, 582;
hostile both to Ibrāhīm and to Bābur 523-9;
military occurrences at 530, 557, 582-9, 594-8.
Qandahār (Afghānistān), sometimes reckoned as part of Ghaznī 217;
a s. limit of Khurāsān 261;
irrigation-waters of 332-6;
heat of compared 520;
Kābul trade with 202;
routes to 206, 308;
—governors in 264, 274;
Arghūns in 71, 227, 326, 336, 429;
Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā's_ failure at 94;
—Bābur's campaigns against 220, 246-8, 330-9, *365, *426-28-36-39;
unremunerative to him 480;
his rock-residence (Chihil-zīna) near 333-5, App. J;
Shaibānī's siege of 21, 331-9, 340-3;
Nāṣir in 338;
Kāmrān in 583, *694-9, *706;
—Khwānd-amīr leaves 605;