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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

xlvii; _cf._ JRAS _Notes infra_; (_c_) _Haidarabad Codex_, published in Facsimile by the Gibb Trust, ed. A. S. Beveridge—basis of the _B.N. in English_ 1, 187, 445, Preface xxvii; appears a direct copy of Bābur's autograph Codex 47, 103, 515; contains (Jahangir's?) Rescue-passage App. D; divergency of Kasan Imprint from it _ib._ xiv; referred to in nn. on pp. 2, 8, 9, 10, 12, 133 (Shaibāq), 14, 18, 23 (careful pointing clears away a doubt), 28, 31, 36, 40 (Bāghdād corrected to Būghdā), 60-4, 75, 88, 132, 140-6-8, 153 (a mistake?), 154 (_dīm_), 159, 164 (_sāīrt kīshī_), 165, 168, 177 (Pers. _dictum_), App. A, i (Akhsī); Preface xxvii, xxxiii (title), xxxv, xli (Table), xlvi (No. x), xlvii;—[2950] (2) +Persian work+:— (_a_) _Tabaqāt-i-bāburī_, described 445; made known to Erskine 520; its deference to Bābur App. P, lvii; shews a date 496; shews nature of an illness (B.'s) 446; specifies drinking-days 447, 450; gives a useful pen-name 448; Buhlūlpūr 454; of a gun 489; Varsak and Khwāstis 523; Naukar or Tuka 525; Bābur points "Sīkrī" to read _shukrī_ 548; styles him "Nawāb" 560 _etc._; describes a porpoise as _baḥrī_ App. M, xlvii; helps as to "Luknūr" App. T, lxxiv; (_b_) _Wāqi`āt-i-bāburī_ (Acts of Bābur), (_the first Pers. Trs. 1583_), Pāyanda-ḥasan _Mughūl_ of Ghaznī and Muḥ-qulī _Mughūl_ of Ḥiṣār—explicit 187, 198; useful variants 267, 624, 645; a puzzling phrase 549, and passage 617; title Pr. xxxiii; described liii (No. vi); (_c_) _Wāqi`āt-i-bāburī_ (Acts of Bābur), (_the second Pers. Trs. 1589_), `Abdu'r-raḥīm M. _Turkmān_—misleading glosses 2 n. 1, 3 n. 1; _tāsh_ misread 312 _etc._; verses doubtfully Babur's 312; a gloss unsupported 337; a difficult passage 617; a fine illustrated copy (B.M. 3714) 155, 298, 325; Erskine's account of its diction (quoted) Pr. xliv (No. vii); on its title xxxiii; (3) +Persian-English work+:—_The Memoirs of Baber_, Leyden and Erskine (1826)—[_see nn. on pp. named_]; +Varia+:— Leyden's slight collaboration 287, 367, 380, Add. Note, P. 287, Pr. xlviii, Cap. iv, [L. and E. _Memoirs_]; two notes by Leyden 10, 219; not fully representative of Bābur's autobiography 2, Cap. iv; advance in help (MSS. and other) since Erskine worked 347, 620-22, App. T, lxxiii; his own MSS. 680; Indian guidance 632, 661; dating agrees with Bābur's 629; misled by his Persian source [_q.v._ 3 _etc._] and by a scribe's slip 544; his help to Ilminski 1, 187, 326, Pr. lv; misleads by uniform "Luknow" App. T; omissions 2, 632, 468, 559 (_important_); a prayer reproduced in its words 316; quoted 715; —+questioned readings+:—143, 223-5-9, 324-7, 333-7, 369, 400-16, Add. Note, P. 416, 446-49-57-62-67 (shaving-passage), 478, 523-34-49-55-59-61, 608-9, 617-19-26-38-40-46-47; —[_Numerous verbal explanations and other notes are reproduced as Erskine's and each identified_]; (4) +Turki-English work+:—_The Bābur-nāma in English_ (_Memoirs of Babūr_), Annette S. Beveridge—_see_ Preface and other contents of these volumes. _Bābar_, Stanley Lane Poole—the Eight Stars 139; a misled note 468. _Bābur und Abu'l-faẓl_, Teufel [_ZDMG, 1862_]—an opinion negatived 119; useful critique on "Fragments" (_q.v._) Preface Cap. III, Part III and App. D; Mubīn MS. used by Berézine 438; Babur-nama title 653, Pr. xxxiii. _Bahar-i-`ajam_ (Pers. Dict.) _see_ Dictionaries. _Bāz-nāma_ (Book of Sport), Muḥibb-i-`alī _Barlās_—its author's descent 276; _l_ exchanged with _n_ (_cf._ _Luḥānī and Nuḥānī_) _ib._ Bélin M.—[_Journal Asiatique xvi, xvii_] 257-8, 271-82-92. _Bengali Household Stories_, Macculoch—a sign of obedience 275. Beveridge Annette S.—JRAS. Notes in referred to _in loco_:—MSS. of the B.N. Turki text 1900; Further Notes 1902, Haidarabad Codex and all others 1905, 1906; Elphinstone Codex 1907; Material for a definitive text and account of Kehr's Codex and its Persian alloy 1908; Kehr's Latin Version of part of his source _i.e._ the _Wāqi`-nāma-i-pādshāhī_ (Bukhara Compilation _q.v._) 1908, Klaproth's _Archiv_ 1909, and (expected) on the confused identity of the Bukhārā Compilation with the _Bābur-nāma_ 1922; —(2) Grounds for making a new translation Preface Cap. IV; the mistaken identity of Kehr's source (_supra_) Cap. III[2951]; of the _Bābur-nāma_, Preface _passim_. Beveridge Henry—(1) +Notes _in loco_+:—_tabalghū_ 11; Bābā-i-kābulī 14; Quintets 15, 288; a mistake by Firishta 15; Lotus-eaters 42; Daulat-shāh 46; Ḥāfiẓ parodied 201; Byron's _tambourgī_ 247; Jāmī plagiarized 258; _Khazīnatu'l-asfiyā_ quoted 211; Tīmūr's burial-position 266; syphilis 279; an illegal marriage 329; Bābur's satirical verse and Shaikh Zain 448; _Z̤afar-nāma_ (?) quoted 485; "_kaka_" 502; Khw. Khusrau's couplet 503; the name "Cintra" for an orange 512; Tīmūr on Hindūstān 526; fate of Ibrāhim _Lūdī's_ mother 543; _ṯamghā_ 553; a pun 571; versus traced 571, 625-6; Ibn Batūta quoted 591; date of Bābur's visit to Lāhor from Āgra 604; Khwānd-amīr 605; Raḥīm-dād 608, 688; Mahdi Khw. 704; Scorpio and Libra 623; Battle of Jām 635; "bulky Oolak" 663; Kashmīr expedition 693; a poor MS. App. P, lv; Shaikh Zain's deference _ib._ lvii; —(2) +Translations+: —(_a_) Akbar-nāma _q.v._ and Tūzūk-i-jahāngīrī _q.v._ —(_b_) revision of Persian _farmān_ 553, and the Kānwa Letter-of-victory 559; —(3) +Articles referred to+: —(_a_) A.Q.R. 1899, _Bābur's Diamond, was it the Koh-i-nūr?_ 447; 1901, _An Afghān Legend_ 375, App. K; 1910, _Paper-mills of Samarkand_ 81; 1911, _Oriental Cross-bows_ 140, 142; _Bābur's Dīwān_ (Rāmpūr MS.) 439; _Some verses by the Emperor Bābur_ 439 —1915, Silhādī and the _Mirāt-i-sikandari_ 614; —(_b_) Calcutta Review 1884, _the Patna Massacre_ 672; —JASB. 1898, _Bāyazīd Bīyāt_ 691; —1905, _The Emperor Bābur's legendary son_ 558; —1884, _Authorship of the Dabistān_; —1916, _Tārīkh-i-salāṯīn-i-afāghana_ 693; —(_c_) JRAS. 1900, _On the word nihilam_ 45, 224 —1901, _Pers. MSS. in Indian Libraries_ 348 —1910, _On the word mutaiyīm_ 16, 275 —1913-14, _Coinage of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā_ App. H, xxvi —1916, _Rashaḥāt-i-`ainu'l-ḥayāt_ 620; —(4) +Other related articles+:— (_a_) A. S. Q.—_Emperor Bābur and the Habību's-siyar_ 1906; _Emp. B. and Khwānd-amīr_ 1909 (_2 parts_); _Emp. B.'s opinion of India_ 1917; _Attempt to poison B._ _ib._; _Was `Abdu'r-raḥīm the translator of B.'s Mems. into Persian?_ 1900 (_2 parts_); (_b_) JRAS.—_The B.N. "Fragments"_ 1908; _Date of Shāh Ḥasan Arghūn's death_ 1914; _An obscure quatrain by Banā'i_ 1917; _The Mongol title Tarkhān_ _ib._; _Tarkhān and Tarquinius_ 1918[2952]; —(5) +His help+: _see_ Postscript of Thanks, Preface lxi. The Bible—untrimmed beard 552; moon-stroke 608. _Bibliothèque Orientale_, B. d'Herbélot—(_see nn. on pp. named_), `Umar Shaikh 13; Sātūq-būghrā Khān 29; Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ 46; Mātarīdiyah and Ash`ariyah Sects 75-6; Ismā`īl _Khartank_ 76; Naṣīru'd-dīn _Tūsī_ 79; Nīl-āb 206; "Qīzīl-bāsh" explained 630. _Biographie Universelle_, Langlésart. _Babour_ xlv. _Biographies of Ladies_ (_Sprenger's Cat._)—two women-poets 286. _Birds of India_, T. C. Jerdon—partridge-tippets 496; cries _ib._; bustard 498; _mānek_ 499; _likhh_ (florican) App. N; _kabg-i-darī_and _chīūrtīka_ (snow-cock) _ib._ "Blessed Ten" 562. Blochmann H. (_JASB. 1873_)—Bābur's Mosque in Saṃbhal 687; _see_ _Āyīn-i-akbari._ Blood-ransom 461; retaliation 64, 102, 119, 194, 251-53, 424. Boats—383-5-7-8, 407-10-22-23-54, 589, 652-4-5-6-8-9, 660, 662; Bābur names his Ganges flotilla 663, 669, 670-1-4-9, 681-4; pontoon bridge 599, 633. Book-names—Akhsīkīt = Akhsī 9; Banākat = Shāhrukhiya 76; Chāch and Shāsh = Tāsh-kīnt 13, 76; Gālīūr or Gālīwar = Gūālīār 605; Nashaf and Nakhshab = Qarshī 84; Nagarahāra = Nīng-nahār 207; Tarāz = Yāngī 2. Book-room—Ghāzī Khān _Lūdī's_ 460. Books (_no titles_)—Exposition of the _Nafaḥāt_ 284; On Jurisprudence 285, —prosody 271, —rhyme 285, —riddles 289. _Botany of the Afghan Delimitation Commission_, Aitchison—regional grasses 222; _qarqand_ = _sax-aol_(_?_) 223. Brahminical thread 561. Bridge of boats _see_ Boats. _Buddhist Records_, S. Beal—Greater Udyāna-pūra App. E, xxi; sugarcane in Lāmghān 203 (_where read Beal_). Browne, Professor Edward Granville—the Ḥaidarābād Codex Facsimile, Preface xlvi (No. x). Building-stone—Samarkand 83, Kābul 710, Chandīrī 597, Dūlpūr 606, Gūālīār 608, Bīāna 611. "Bukhārā Compilation," known as "_Bābur-nāma_" see _Wāqī`nāma-i-pādshāhī_. Bullies of Marghīnān (Marghīlān) 7 (_where in line 1, add_, "They are notorious in Mā-warā'u'n-nahr for their bullyings"). _Burhān-i-qāṯi`_ (Pers. Dict.) _see_ Dictionaries. _Buried Cities of Khotan_, Sir M. Aurel Stein—Aq-būrā-rūd 4. _Bū-stān_, Sa`dī—couplets quoted 139, 152, 626. +Noticeable words+:— (P.-Ar.-T.) _bāghāt_, _bāghlār_, _bāghchā_ and _begāt_, _beglār_ 5, 80, 478; _bāghīsh_ 59, 69; _bakhshī_ (in M. surgeon) 169; _bāshlīqlār_ (commanders) 119; _bātmān_ (a weight) 261; _bātqāq_ (slough of despond) 31; _bāī_ (rich man) 127; _bāīrī_ (old servant) 30; _bī_ = beg 127-8; _bīldūrga_ 225; _b:d-hindī_ = P. _sih-bandī_ (Byde Horse) 470; _bīlāk_ 446; _būghū-marāl_ 8, 10; _būghdā_ (cutlass) 40; _būlāk_ and _balūq_ 196, 17 and 221; _būsh_ (bosh) 507. _Cabool_ (Kabul), Sir Alex. Burns—(_see nn. on pp. named_); wind and running sands 201, 215; climate 204; _kabg-i-darī_ 213; Kohistān 214; millet 215; Bābur's Burial-garden 710. Cadell, Jessie E.—quoted Preface xxvii. Cadet-corps formed 28, App. H, xxvii. Cairn _i.e._ "Bābur Pādshāh's Stone-heap" 446, Preface xxxvii. Candles and candlesticks—none in Hind 518; offensive substitutes _ib._ Canopus _see_ Suhail. Capitals of Farghāna—Andijān 3, Akhsi 10, Aūz-kīnt 162. Caravans—15, 202, 250, 331. Carruthers, Mr. Douglas—help from App. B, vii. Carving—Bābur no carver 304. Caste-names—518. Catalogues:—(_see nn. on pp. named_); " Coins of the Shahs of Persia (B.M.), R. S. Poole—Bābur's surmised vassal coin 355, App. H, xxx, Preface xxxv; " Feronia Nursery Calcutta, Seth—Jack-fruit 506; _sang-tarā_ orange 511; " Library of the King of Oudh, A. Sprenger—Biographies of Ladies 286; _Shāh u Darwesh_ 290; Ahlī 290; " Library of Tippoo Sulṯān, C. Stewart—_T̤abaqāt-i-naṣīrī_ 479; " _Manuscrits Turcs de l'Institut des langues orientales_, W. D. Smirnov—_Malfūzāt-i-tīmūri_ 653; Bābur's writings _ib._ " Persian MSS. (B.M.), C. Rieu—Shāsh and Fanākat 2, 7; Khw. Kamāl 8; Akhsīkītī 9; `Abdu'l-lāh _Barlās_ 51; Saifī 111, 288;