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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

Sawātī, ? an adjective=of Sawād, _q.v. kargkhāna_ and Bābur's rhino-hunting in 378, 450. Sayyidpūr ? or Sidhpūr (Panj-āb), Bābur takes 429. Sehonda, Seondhā (C. India), revenue of 521. Shāf-tiwār (Badakhshān), _see_ Qila`-i-ẕafar. Shāhābād (Panj-āb), Bābur at 466. Shāh-i-Kābul mountain, Sher-darwāza (Kābul), located 200-1; *Bābur buried on 710. Shahmang ? (Panj-āb), once part of Kashmīr 484. Shahr-i-sabz (Samarkand), _see_ Kesh. Shahr-i-ṣafā (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), a holder of 188; (Qandahār), Bābur at 332-3. Shāhrukhiya = Fanākat _q.v._ (Tāshkīnt), a limit of Samarkand 76; names of 2 n. 5, 7 n. 5, 13, 76; holders of 13, 17; various military occurrences at 21-4, 16, 54, 7, 23, 151; Champion's-portion taken at 53. Shakdān (Badakhshān), a force at 295. Shāl = Quetta (Balūchistān), Shāh Beg goes to 337, *427. Shām, Syria, a Samarkand _tūmān_ compared with 84. Shamsābād (U.P. India), exchanges of 477, 594-8, 613; an assignment on 677. Sham-tū (n. of Hindū-kush), on a route 192. Shāsh (W. Turkistān), _see_ Tāshkīnt. Shatlut river, ? Sutlej (Panj-āb), Bābur crosses 457. Shāvdār or Shādwār _tūmān_ (Samarkand), described 84; a fort of 68; head-quarters in 97; a Tarkhān in 122; joins Bābur 125. Sherkot (Bhīra, Panj-āb), a holder of 382. Sherūkān ? (Ghaznī?), a fight near 397. Sherwān (n.e. of Mashhad, Persia), a native of 284; (_see_ Fr. map Maïmènè). Shibarghān (Khurāsān), besieged 94; defence planned 191; battle near 260. Shibr-tū pass (Hindū-kush), described 205; height of 204 n. 4; meaning of name 205 n. 2; crossed 242, 321; Bābur crosses 294, 311; (for an omission on p. 205, _see_ Add. Note p. 205). Shīrāz (Persia), Yūnas Khān in 20; (Samarkand), a Commandant of 130; Bābur near 64-6, 73; raided by Shaibānī 92; 98. Shīwa (Kābul-river), Bābur at 343. Sniz (Kābul-Ghaznī road), Bābur near 248. Shorkach (Ghaznī ?), locates a place 323 n. 3. Shulut (Kābul), App. F, xxiv. Shunqār-khāna mountains (n.w. rampart of Zar-afshān valley), Bābur crosses 130. Shutur-gardan (Samarkand), described 142 n. 1, 143. Sīālkot (Panj-āb), revenue of 521; officers of 98, *442-3; *attacked 443; Bābur and *429-52-54-58. Sidhpūr (Panj-āb), _see_ Sayyidpūr. Sihkāna (Afghānistān), a tribe in 323. Sihrind, Sahrind, Sirhind (Panj-āb), revenue of 521; names of 383 n. 1; rivers rising n. of 485; fixes a limit 638; fixes a date 457; snows seen from 485; a holder of 383; an assignment on 582; Bābur and *441-64, *693-9, *700-1. Sikandar's dam (C.P. India), described 606; Bābur at 585. Sikandara (U.P. India), Bābur at 587. Sikandaräbād (U.P. India), Bābur passes 588. Sikandarpūr (U.P. India), a ferry station of 677; an official of 668; Bābur at 679. Sikrī (U.P. India), hills of 485; *Bābur keeps Rāmẓān at 351, changes name of 548 n. 2; selects it for his camp (933 AH.) 548; Bābur at 549, 581-5-8, 600, 615-6; revenues of support his tomb *709. Sind (India), *Shāh Beg and 427-9. Sind-daryā, Indus, of "Nīl-āb" as a name of 206 n. 3; fords and ferries of 206; tributaries of 216, 485; rhinoceros of 490; limits lands 206 n. 6, 231-3, 380, 392, 484, 525; — *Shāh Beg and 431; — *Bābur's compulsion to seek territory across 706; Bābur on 230-7-8, 378-92, *452-3; mentions it in verse 525-6. Singar-water, Sengar (U.P. India), Bābur bathes in 649. Sinjid-dara (Kābul), Bābur in 196, 406. Sīr-āb or Sar-i-āb (n. of Hindū-kush), a pass-route to 205; a defeat near 51, 196. Sīr-auliya (U.P. India), Bābur at 654. Sīrd, Sīrda, Sarda (U.P. India), a constituent of the Gagar, Gogrā, Ghogrā 602. Sirhind (Panj-āb), _see_ Sihrind. Sīrkāī, ? Sirakhs (Khurāsān), Shaibānī near 327. Sīstān (Khurāsān), a s. limit of Khurāsān 261; plan of defence for 326. Siwālik-hills, or Sawālak (N. India), Bābur on the name 485. Sīwī, Sībī (Balūchistān), an official in 238; an incursion into 260; Sīwīstān, *427. Siyāh-āb, _see_ Qarā-sū. Siyāh-koh (Kābul), located (unnamed) 209; various names of 209 n. 3. Siyāh-sang (Kābul), meadow of 201; *scene of an Afghān massacre, App. K, xxvi. Soghd _tūmān_ (Samarkand), described 84, 147; Bābur and 64, 135, 147. Son-water (Bihār, India), an enemy near 658; crossed for Bābur 662; Bābur on 666. Spīn-ghur (Afghānistān), _see_ Safed-koh. Sūf-valley (Khurāsān), _see_ Dara-i-ṣūf. Sūgandpūr (U.P. India), Bābur at 686. Sūhān-nūrī, or Sūhār-nūrī (Kābul), App. G, xxv. Sūhān-sū (Panj-āb), a tribe on 380; Bābur on 379, 391. Sūkh (Farghāna), Bābur's refuge in 7, 130 n. 1, 176 n. 1, *184-5; gifts to envoys from 633. Sukhjāna (C.P. India), Bābur near 614. Sulaimān-range (Afghān border), _see_ Mehtar Sulaimān. Sulṯānīa (Persia), cold of 219. Sulṯānpūr (Kābul), Bābur at 409-13-47. Sulṯānpūr (Panj-āb), founder of 442-61; a return to 457; *taken from Bābur 443. Sūnkār (Rājpūtāna), Bābur at 581. Sūrkh-āb (n. of Hindū-kūsh), _see_ Qīzīl-sū. Surkh-āb, Qizil-sū (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), Bābur's victory on 352-3. Surkh-āb and rūd, Qīzīl-sū (Kābul), 207 n. 5; Bāgh-i-wafā on 208, Adīnapūr-fort on 209; wild-ass near 224; Bābur crosses 395; ruins near App. E, xvii. Surkh-rabāṯ (Kābul), _see_ Rabāṯ-i-surkh. Sūsān-village (Kābul), Bābur at 422. Sutluj and Shutlūt (_sic_ Ḥai. MS.), Sutlej-river (Panj-āb), limits lands 383; course of 485; crossed 457; Trans-Sutluj revenues 521. Syria, _see_ Shām. Tabrīz (Persia), cold of 204-19; Yūnas Khān in 20. Tag-aū (Kābul), _see_ Badr-aū. Tahangar (Rājpūtāna), hostile to Bābur 538. Takāna (? Khurāsān), a fight at 260. "Takhta Qarachi" (Samarkand), 83 n. 2; _see_ Aītmāk-dābān. Takht-i-sulaimān (Farghāna) 5 n. 2. T̤āliqān, T̤āīkhān (Oxus), a Bāī-qarā at 60; Mughūls from 192. Tal Ratoi (Nathpūr, U.P. India), 681 n. 1. Tang-āb (Farghāna), Bābur at 100; located 99 n. 4. Tang-i-wāghchān pass (Kābul), _see_ Gīrdīz. Tank, Tāq (N.W.F. Province), _see_ Dasht. T̤arāz or T̤arar (E. Turkistān), _see_ Yāngī. Tarnak river (Qandahār), _see_ Turnūk. Tarshīz (Khurāsān), Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā's_ victory at 259 and n. 5 (where _read_ p. 524). Tāshkīnt, Tāshkend (Russia-in-Asia), of its names 2 n. 5, 7 and n. 5, *184; its book-names Shāsh and Chāch 13, 76; ravines of App. A, ii; holders of 32-5, 115, 154, 161; a rebel at 36; Khalīfa sent to 90; name of used as a pass-word 164; Shaibānī's capture of (908 AH.) 23-4, *184; holds out for Bābur (918 AH.) 356-8, 396; its Aūzbeg Sulṯāns at Jām 622. Tāsh-rabāṯ (n. of Herī), Bābur at 301. Tatta (Sind, India), course of the Indus through 485; playing cards sent to 584. Tāzī var. Yārī (Ghaznī-Qalāt road), Bābur at 248. Tibet, Bābur locates 485. Tijāra (Rājpūtāna), a chief town in Mīwāt 578; given to Chīn-tīmūr 578-9, 688. Tīka-sīkrītkū, Goat-leap (Farghāna), `Umar Shaikh defeated at 16. Tīl, Thāl (Kohāt, N.W.F.P. India), Bābur at 232. Tīimūr Beg's Langar (Kābul), Bābur at 313. Tīpa (Kābul), assigned for a camp 199; earthquake damage in 247; an exit from 254. Tirāk-pass (Farghāna), 15 n. 5. Tirhut (Bihār, India), revenue of 521. Tīrmīẕ (Ḥiṣār-shādmān territory), a s. limit of Samarkand 76, Begīms of 37, 47-8; Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ and 5, 191; a governor of 74; Bāqī _Chaghānīānī's_ 188, 249; a sayyid of *704-5; Najm _S̤ānī_ at 359; entered for Bābur 640. Tīr-mūhānī (Bihār, India), mentioned 679, 675 n. 1, 687 and n. 2; the _Ḥabību's-siyar_ finished at 687 n. 2. Tīzīn-dara (Kābul), 208 n. 4. Tochī-valley (N.W.F.P. India), ? to be traversed by Bābur 231. Toda-bhīm (Rājpūtāna), Bābur at 581; Sangā at 545 (where "Āgra district" is wrong). Tons-river, Tūs-sū (U.P. India), Bābur on 656, 683. Tramontana (between the Oxus and Hindū-kush), army of 447; *706. Tūghlūqābād (Dihlī), Bābur at 476. T̤ūl-pass and road (Hindū-kush), account of 205; height of 204 n. 4. Tūn (Khurāsān), a Bāī-qarā holder of 296, 301. Tūp (Kābul-Herāt road), Bābur at 295. Tūqūz-aūlūm (Oxus), a defence question 191. T̤urfān (Chinese Turkistān), Bābur plans going to 158. Turkistān, course of the Saiḥūn in 2-3; trade with Kābul 202; gold-cloth of 641 n. 5; Shaibānī and 65 n. 3, 73-4, 135; his vow in Haẓrat Turkistān 356; *`Ubaid in 354. Turnūk, Tarnak (Qandahār), 332 n. 3; a holder of 340. Tūs-sū (U.P. India), _see_ Tons. T̤ūs (`Irāq), an astronomer of 79; Shaibānī attacks 534. Tūta (U.P. India), Begims from Kābul pass 616. Tūtlūq-yūl, Mulberry-road (Farghāna), Bābur on 165. Tūtūn-dara (Kābul), water taken from 647. Udyānapūra (Kābul), App. E, xxi; _see_ Adīnapūr. Ujjain (Mālwa, C. India), an observatory in 79. `Umān-sea, receives the Indus 485. `Umarābād (Khurāsān), an ascribed site of the battle of Jām 635 n. 4. Ūnjū-tūpā (Farghāna), _see_ Aūnjū-tūpā. `Uqābain (Kābul), site of the Bālā-ḥiṣār 201. Ūrgenj (Khwārizm), _see_ Aūrgānj. Ūrghūn (Kābul), _see_ Aūrghūn. Urūs-sū (W. Turkistān), _see_ Arūs. Ush (Farghāna), _see_ Aūsh. Ushtur-shahr (Kābul), Bābur in 195, 294, 314. `Uṯrār, Otrār, Aūṯrār (W. Turkistān), _see_ Yāngī. Varsak (Badakhshān), position of 523 n. 1, Bābur's gifts to 523. Vierney, Vernoe (E. Turkistān), position on site of old Ālmātū 2 n. 1. Wakhsh (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), Aūzbegs at 352, 362. Walīān pass (Hindū-kush), account of 205; height of 204 n. 4. Warūkh (Farghāna), account of 7. Wasmand fort (Samarkand), Bābur at 132. Wazr-āb (Ḥiṣār-shādmān), 58 n. 1. Yada-bīr (Kābul), Bābūr at 394, 411, 448. Yaftal (Badakhshān), a force at 321. Yagha or Yaghma (n. of Tāshkīnt), tombs at 139; Bābur at 139. Yāī (Khurāsān), tribes in 255. Yaka-aulang (w. of Bāmīān, _see_ Fr. map Maïmènè), Jahāngīr goes to 294; passes from Herī-rūd valley to 310 n. 2; Bābur in 311. Yak-langa (Kābul), Bābur crosses 445. Yām (Samarkand), Bābur at 67; 84 n. 3. Yān-bulāgh (Kābul), Bābur on road of 425. Yāngī-ḥiṣār (Kāshghar), *a death-bed repentance at 362. Yāngī = Tarāz (E. Turkistān), depopulated 2; book-name of 2 and n. 1; an army at 20. Yāngī = Ūṯrar, Otrar (W. Turkistān), a mistaken entry of in some MSS. 2 n. 1. Yāngī-yūl pass (Hindū-kush), described 205. Yārī (Ghaznī-Qalāt road), _see_ Tazī. Yārī (Zar-afshān), Bābur crosses the bridge to 130. Yārkand (E. Turkistān), *696. Yār-yīlāq (Samarkand), Tīmūr's "head" of Soghd 84; fights near 35, 122; villages of 97-8; submits to Bābur 98; Bābur in 64, 92, 125, 130-1. Yasān (Farghāna), _see_ Khasbān. Yāsī-kījīt (Farghāna), Bābur's men defeated at 27, 105. Yīlān-aūtī or Yīlān-aūt (Samarkand), Bābur at 147. Yīlān-chaq (n. of Hindū-kush), a tribe of 196. Yītī-kīnt (Farghāna), mandrake in 11; of its position 11 n. 6;