The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
Yūnas Khān's headquarters 20 n. 5.
Zābul, Zābulistān, a name of Ghaznī _q.v._
[Z.]aḥāq fort, "Zohak" (s. of Bāmīān), Bābur at 294;
(_see_ Fr. map Maïmènè).
Zamānia (U.P. India), _see_ Madan-Banaras.
Zamīn (Samarkand), locates places 34, 64;
Bābur at 97.
Zamīn-dāwar (Qandahār), Arghūn chiefs in 71, 337-9;
Zū'n-nūn's 274;
taken by Bābur 27;
plan to defend 326.
Zar-afshān river, Kohik-sū _q.v._ (Samarkand), described 76 and nn.
4, 5;
Macha village on 149 n. 4;
Bābur crosses 67, 130;
*Najm _S̤ānī_ crosses 360.
Zardak-chūl (w. of Balkh), over-run 94.
Zarqān or Zabarqān (Farghāna), Bābur at 161.
Zindān valley (Kābul-Balkh road), _see_ Dara-i-zindān.
Zirrīn-pass (between Herī-rūd valley and Yaka-aūlāng), Bābur misses
it 309-10.
Zurmut _tūmān_ (Kābul), described 220;
floods in 240;
Gīrdīz head-quarters in 220.
Index III. General
Abbreviated names 29.
Abdu'l-wahhāb _Ghaj-dāvānī_ see _Wāqi`-nāma-i-pādshāhī_.
Ablution—before death 188;
reservoirs 208, 217, 580, 639, 683.
Abū-ṯālib _Ḥusainī_ or Abū'l-ḥusain _Turbatī_
_see_ _Malfūzāt-i-tīmūri_.
_Abūshqa_, a Turki—Turkish Dict.—quotes verses as Bābur's 438;
quotes Khw. Kalān 526;
the Bāburī-script App. Q, lxiii.
Account-rolls of palm leaves 510.
Adoption—of a son 170;
præ-natal 374, App. L.
_Afghanistan and the Afghans_, H. W. Bellew—vine-culture 210;
decoy-ducks 225 (_where_, _in n. 5_, _read title as above_).
_Afghan Poets of the XVII Century_, C. E. Biddulph—Khūsh-āb _Khattak_
mentions Bābur 439.
Afẓal Khān _Khattak_—(_Raverty's Notes_ _q.v._)—Nīl-āb
(_ferry-station_) 206.
Agriculture—seed-corn and money advances 86;
young millet grazed 215;
methods of vine culture 210;
water-raising appliances 388, 486-7;
irrigation, "running waters":—Farghāna 4, 5, 7,
Samarkand 76-7, 147;
Hindūstān 486-7, 519-31-81,
Qandahār 332-6,
Chandīrī 596;
—canals:—Farghāna 67,
Samarkand 76, 147;
—grain, corn:—Farghāna 2, 3, 55, 114-46,
Kābul 203, 228, 373-4,
[green corn] 394,
Qandahār 333,
Hash-nagar 410,
Bārā 414,
Bhīra 381;
—raft of corn seized on the Sind 392;
horse-corn fails on a march 238-9;
(rice) 342-74-94, 410.
_Akbar-nāma_, Shaikh Abū'l-faẓl _`Allāmīy_, (_trs. H. Beveridge_)—(_see
notes on pp. given_) +meanings+:—_bāt-qāq_ 31;
_nihilam_ and _tasqāwal_ 45;
Tardīka 568;
Tarkhān 34;
_fīl-i-daryā'i_ App. M. xlvii;
—+persons+:—13, 22, 263-4, 346, 552, 562, 641, 657;
—+various places+:—191, 206, 441, 523, App. J, xxxv;
—winter access to Farghāna 2;
Niẕāmī quoted 44;
an inscription of Bābur's 343;
Rūmi defences 469;
the(Koh-i-nūr) diamond 477;
a cognomen 566;
risks to MSS. App. D, x;
Akbar-nāma material *441-5, *691-3;
Bābur supplemented 639;
length of work on it *692 n.;
Mubīn passage translated in the "Fragments" (_q.v._) *437-8;
Bābur's self-devotion *701;
his choice of a successor *702 to 705,
mentioned Preface xxxiii;
translated from by Jahāngīr (?) xlv.
`Alī-sher _Nawā'ī's_ comforts 287.
_Allgemeine Erdkunde_, Carl Ritter—Barā-koh 5;
Bābur's _farsī-gūī_ useful 7;
Akhsī distances App. A, v.
_`Amal-i-ṣāliḥ_, Muḥ. Ṣāliḥ—Shāh-jahān's destruction of wine 298;
_tūīgūn_ (bird) 418.
_Amanitates exoticae_, Engelbertus Kæmpfer—_Ijtihād_ 284.
Amusements _see_ Games.
_Ancient Geography of India_, Major-Gen. Sir Alex. Cunningham—(_see
nn. on pp. named_) Shibr-tu 205;
Nīl-āb 206;
Kohistān villages 214;
Gūrkhattri 230;
Bigrām 230;
Udyān-apūra App. E, xxi.
_Annals and Antiquities of Rajastan_ Col. James Tod—Sangā's force 547;
negociations with Bābur 550;
appearance 558;
Ṣalāḥu'd-dīn (Silhādi) 562.
Antidotes—lime-juice 511,
Lemnian earth 543.
_Anwar-i-suhailī_, Ḥusain Wā`iẕu 'l-kāshīfī—quoted 22;
Firdausi quoted 557,
Add. N, P. 557.
Apostates 577-8, 590-1.
Arabic Sciences 283-5.
_`arāq_ see fermented drinks, _s.n._ Wine.
Archery[2949]—[_see nn. on pp. named_], _good bowmen_ 16, 22, 26,
34 (2),
cross-bowman 53, 263;
remarkable feats 276, 279;
—_archer's marks_:—_ilbāsūn_ (duck), _qabāq_ (gourd), _tūqūq_ (hen)
34,
_takhta_ (target);
_qabāq-maidān_ 276;—
_arrows_:—_aūq_ 22, 34, 255,
_etc._, _giz_ 213, 225,
_khadang_ (white poplar) 13,
_tīr-giz_ 11
(_where preface n. 2 by the name_), 34;
arrow-barb, _paikān_ 22,
-notch, _gosha_ App. C, -flight 8, 140;
flights of arrows 52;
rain of, 138;
quiver T. _sāghdāq_ 160, 166,
P. _tarkash_ 526;
an arrow-borne letter 361;
—_bows_:—Chāchī bow (_kamān_) 13;
cross-bow _takhsh-andāz_, _kamān-i-guroha_ 55, 263;
_narmdīk yāī_, an easy-bow 420;
_qātīq yāī_, a stiff-bow 490;
—bows ruined by Hindūstān climate 519, *700;
—_various_:—_chaprās_, _daur_, _gosha_, _kamān-khāna_, _kardāng_
explained App. C;
_gosha-gīr_, a repairing-tool 166, App. C;
Turkish bow-making a fine craft App. C, ix;
dismounting to shoot 52;
—_to bow-string_ (T. _kīrīsh sālmāq_) 110.
Architecture Timuriya and Timurid Pr. xxxi.
_Archiv für Asiatische Litteratur_ H. J. Klaproth (_q.v._)—Kasan
gardens 10;
his extracts from the Bukhara Compilation MSS. Pr. xxxix, xlvii.
_Ariana Antiqua_, H. H. Wilson—_Masson's art. Actīnapūr Region_ 227,
Nagarāhāra App. E, xvii.
_Army of the Indian Moghuls_, W. Irvine—trepanning 109;
misled 470;
on _muljār_ (_q.v._) 592;
"_shātur_" explained 593;
_firingi_ (gun) 473,
pontoon-bridges 600.
_`Arūz-i-saifi_, Maulāna Sayyid Maḥmūd _Saifi_
of Bukhāra, (_trs. Blochmann and Ranking_)—a note by Rieu 288;
Saifi's pupil Bāī-sunghar 111;
his high number of rubā'i measures App. Q, lxvi.
_Asia Portuguesa_, Manuel de Faria y Sousa—Habshi succession custom
482.
_Astronomy and Astrology_—Tables and Observatories 74, 79, Pr. xxx;
Canopus (Suhail) 195;
forecasts 139, 551;
houses of Scorpio 633;
Pole-star a guide 323,
its altitude at Chandīrī 597;
Capricorn 597.
_Ayīn-i-akbarī_, Abū-faẓl (_trs. Blochmann, Jarrett_)—(_see nn. on pp.
named_);
Climates 1;
_qīlīj_ (cognomen) 29;
observatories 79;
guns 473;
clepsydra 516;
kitchen rules 541;
fruits 3, 501-3-4-5, 512;
_chalma_ 624;
hunting deer 630;
_baḥrī_ (falcon) 632;
_mīlak_ (gold, cloth) 641;
_yak-tai_ (unlined) 652;
—+(weights and measures)+ _khar-war_ 228,
_tānāb_ 630,
_sang_=_tāsh_ 632;
—a title 209;
a child traveller 265;
Barlās begs 270;
+(places)+ Kābul 207, 221;
Kacha-kot 250;
Sidhpūr 429;
Nagarāhāra App. E, xxiii;
Buhlūlpūr 454;
Kanwāhīn 458;
Milwat (Malot) 461;
Jahān-nāma 485;
Chausath 581;
Lakhnūr 582;
Sikandra Rao 587,
Godi, Gūī 601;
—+(persons)+ 285, 653, 666, App. P, lvi;
—Bābur's expedition to Kashmīr 693.
_Agār-i-sanādīd_, Sayyid Aḥmad Khān—places Bābur visited 475;
Mahdī Khwāja and Amīr Khusrau's tomb 704.
+Noticeable words+:
—P. _āb-duzd_ 109 = P. _dū-tahī_ 62, 595-6;
_aīkī-sū-ārā_ = P. _miyān-dū-āb_ (Mesopotamia) _i.a_ 88;
_aīmāq_ (clan) 51, 196, 207-15-55, Add. Note P. 49; M.
_ālāchī_ whence _Alacha_ 23;
_arghamchī_ 614; _āsh-kīna_ (stew) 4;
_aūdālīq_ (odalisque) = P. _ghūnchachī_ _q.v._;
_aūghlān_ (child, boy, non-regnant chief) 19;
_aūgh-lāqchī_ 39;
_aūrchīn_ 44, 88;
_aūng_, _ūng_ (Prester John's title) 23;
_aūpchīn_ 176, 282;
Aūz-beg, -khān, -kīnt, _i.a_ 162, (_see_ A.N. trs. i, 160, 170);
_āyīk-aūt_ = P. _mihr-giyāh_ (mandrake) 11.
_The Bābur-nāma_, Z̤ahīru'd-dīn Muḥ. Bābur (Lion) Mīrzā and (later)
Pādshāh _Ghāzī_.
I. SECTIONS OF THE BOOK:—(_The record of præ-accession
years is lost Pr. xxxvi_); (1) +Farghāna+ 1-182, (Trs. N.
[_bridging a gap_] 182-185); (2) +Kābul+ 187-346, (Trs. N.
347-366), 367-425, (Trs. N. 426-444); (3) +Hindustān+ 445-602,
(Trs. N. 603-4), 605-690, (Trs. N. 691-716);
SUB-SECTIONS:—(_a_) +Descriptions+ of Farghāna 1-12, Kābul
199-227, Herāt 304-5, Hindustān 480-521, Chandīrī 592, 596,
Gūālīār 605-614; (_b_) +Biographies+ of Yūnas Khān 19-24 (_see
infra, displacements_), of Mīrān-shāhīs _viz._ `Umar Shaikh
13-19, 24-28, Aḥmad 33-40, Maḥmūd 45-51, Bāī-sunghar 110-112,
of Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ 256-292, of amīrs _etc._ 24, 37, 49, 270;
II. LACUNÆ:—(_other than mentioned above_); minor in 935 AH.
_see_ dating and nn. on pp. 617, 621, 630, 636, 687, and for
surmised patching from fragments of 934 AH. 654, 655, 680; (1)
+References to events of the gaps+ _see_ nn. on pp. 105, 364
—208, 441, 575 —381 —408, 422 —(of 934 AH.) 603, 617, 618, 621
—an Akbar-nāma indication 639; (2) +Varia concerning the
gaps+:—Causes of, Pr. xxxiv; misinterpreted xxxv; results in
present displacement xxxvi;
III. VARIA CONCERNING THE BOOK:— (1) +Date of composition+,
[_see nn. on pp. named_]; 48, 50, 79, 98 —102, 105 —139, 154,
176, 190 (l. 5 fr. ft.) 198 —203-4-6-8 —214-18-19-20 (_para.
3_), 269-76-78-85 —313 ("now" _para. 2_), 314 ("now" l. 4),
315 (l. 2), 318 (_para._ 2), 337 (l. 16), 373 (l. 8 fr. ft.),
374; (2) +Literary style and idiom+:— plain diction 2, precise
wording _e.g._ 5, 79, 475, 485, appreciation of words 67, 265,
283, 627, comments on style _e.g._ 22, 67, and pronunciation
210, 484, early diary differs in wording from the narrative
367; lapses into courtly Persian 445, 537, 539; (3)
+Grammatical details+:— relatives not used Add. Note, P. 167;
uses of "we" and "I" 104, 118; distinctions of meaning
expressed by Ar. and T. plurals _e.g._ 5, 80; uses of the
presumptive tense 37, 75, 162, 167, 577 (cf. Shaw's Grammar);
examples of idiom 29, 44, 66, 75, Add. Note, P. 167
(_gharīcha_); (4) +Varied information+ _see_ Preface _passim_;
(5) +Bābur's notes+: —Khwāja Maulānā-i-qāẓī 29 —Ibrāhīm Sārū
52 —Champion's portion 53 —Gūk-sarāī 63 —Fāzīl Tarkhān 133
—Aūz-kīnt 163 —Pass-words 169 —Multā-kundī 211 —Military terms
334 —Pīrī Beg 336 —Badakhshān 340 —Sl. Ma`sūd M. 382 —Campaign
of 910 AH. 382 —Daulat Khān 383 —_daqīqa_ 516 —_pol_ 517
—Mullā Apāq 526 —_kuroh_ (from the _Mubīn_) 630 —_tāsh_ weight
632;
IV. WORK DONE ON THE BOOK:— (1) +Turki Codices+ _see_ Preface,
Cap. III, Part II and Table xli; —(_a_) _Haidar Mīrzā's
Codex_—its importance Pr. xxxiv, xxxv, xxxviii, xli, xlii (No.
iv); (_b_) _Elphinstone Codex_—archetypes 405, Pr. xli, xlii,
xliii (No. v); its losses of pages 445; defacement 129, 325,
415, 548; Erskine's use of it Add. Note, P. 287; reliance on
it _in loco_ 1, 187, 445; preserves Humayun's attested notes
447-52-67, 510-14 and attributed notes 216, 494, 507 —also a
quatrain on Mughūls 140; "Rescue-passage" not in it App. D;
divergency from it in the Kasan Imprint _ib._ xiv; a former
owner 706; referred to in nn. on pp. 7, 10, 12, 14, 23-6-8,
31-6, 44-7-8, 60-4, 75, 88, 112-3, 133 (Shaibāq), 143-8, 154
(_dīm_), 159, 161-4-9; Preface xli, xlii, xliii (No. v),