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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

Halwa-spring 260; Niẓāmī 271; Daulat-shah 274; _Bāz-nāma_ 276; Suhailī 277; Marwārīd 278; Amīr Ḥamza 280; `Atā'u'l-lāh 282; Taftazānī 283; _Khamsatīn_ 288; Husain _Nishapūrī_ 288; Yūsuf of Farghāna 289; Hilālī 290; a scribe-poet 291; _Sūlūku'l-mulūk_ 348; Nawā'ī's Dīwāns arranged 419; Histories of T̤ahmāsp 622; _Ḥabibu's-siyar_ finished 687; _Tārīkh-i-ṣalātīn-i-afāghāna_ 693, 701; —Kasan Imprint misleads 259; a questioned reading 266; " Persian MSS. in the I.O. Library, H. Ethé—Khw. Hijrī 153; Ḥusain _Nishapūrī_ 288; _Shāh u Darwesh_ 290; a scribe-poet 293[2953]; " Turki MS. in B.M., C. Rieu—the author of the _Sang-lākh_ App. A, v; the _Shaibānī-nāma_ 289. Catamites 26, 42-5-9, 278, 396 (_cf._ 174 n.). _Cathay and the way thither_, ed. Sir H. Yule (Hakluyt Society vol. i, p. 20)—running-sands 215. _Caubul_ (Kābul), Hon. Mountstewart Elphinstone—millet 215; Judas-tree 216; Indus ford (_Nīl-āb_) 378; "Nangrahaur" App. E, xix. "Chaghatāī Castles" 208. Chaghatāī families—`Alī-sher _Nawā'ī_ a member of one, Preface xxxi. Chaghatāī-Osmanisches Wörterbüch _see_ Dictionaries. Chaghatāīsche Sprach-studien, H. Vambéry—(_mil._) pass-words (_aūrān_) 219; meaning of _gepanzert_ 221, _bīldurga_ 225, _sīghnāq_ App. Q, lxiv. Champion's portion won and explained 53. _Charikar_, T. C. Haughton—Kohistan of Kabul 214-5. Charles XII's sobriquet Iron-head 14. _Chār-ūlūs_ (Four hordes), Aulugh Beg Mirza, Preface xxx. _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_—tambourgi 247. _Chinese Turkistan_, P. W. Church—marāl 8. Chīngīz-tūrā (_ordinances_) respected 155, 298. _Chīnīūt_, D. G. Barkley [_JRAS._ 1899]—its position 380. Chirkas sword 65. Chishti order 666. _Chrestomathie Turque_, Berézine—the _Mubīn_ quoted 438, 630. Chronograms 85, 135, 152, 217, 344, 427, 575, 596. Cider 83. Circumcision 14, 69. Coincidences 71, 123, 261, 686. Coins—_ashrafī_ 446-60; _dām_ 383; _kipkī_ 296; _sikka_ (coined money ?) 277; _shāhrukhi_ 379-83, 400, 408, 417-46-78-9, 523; _tang_ 641; _tanka_ "black" (_i.e._ _copper_) 521, "white" (_i.e._ _silver_) 338-9, 344, 446, 521-7, 641, App. P, lvii; "red and white" (money) 522; Bābur's "vassal coins" 354-5-6, App. H, xxx. Confections—_ma`jūn_:—used in excess 16; gifts of 373; parties on non-drinking-days 447; eating of 377-83-84-88-93, 410-12-15-16-18, 420-2, 448-50, 580-8, 615-50-59-83; _kamālī_ 373. Congregational Prayer—unbroken attendance at 283. Countermark [_Bih-būd_] on coins 277, App. H, xxv, xxvi, xxix. _Cross-bow_, Sir W. F. Payne-Gallwey—archers' marks 34; bow-shot distances 140; what may apply to Bābur's _ẕarb-zan_ and _tūfang_ 667. Cunningham, Maj.-Gen. Sir Alex. _see_ _Indian Eras_ and Reports on Arch. Survey. Customs—Musalmān scruples about burial-places 246; the Champion's-portion 53; circumambulation of tombs 54, 285, 301-5-6, 475, and of the sick 701; amongst combatants' wives 22, 268; dipping 16 times in bathing 151; levirate marriage 23; mourning rites 32, 246, 293; a nativity-feast 344; nine a mystic number _see s.n._ nine; an ordeal of virtue 211; divining from sheep-blade-bones 233; pillars of heads 232, _i.a._ 573-6; rock-inscription 153; signs of submission 53, 232-3, 248; succession in Bengal 482-3 n. 5; unveiling a bride 37; gifts from those marrying 43, 400; gifts by wives _q.v._ Cyclopædia of Archery _see_ _Kulliyatu'r-rāmī_. Czar Vassili III—Bābur's embassy to, App. Q, lxiii. +Noticeable words+:—_Chāchī_ 13; _chāghīr_ 83, 298; _chāpūk_, slash-face 68; P. _chār-dara_ 80, 629; _chaughān_ (polo) 26; P. _chalma_ 624; H. _chaukandī_ = Ar. _ghurfat_ and P. _chār-dara_ (?) 629-63; _chāpkūn_ 324; _chiqār_ (exit) 44; _yinka-chīcha_ 616; _chuhra-jīrga_ 50, 227, App. H, xxvi-vii. _Dabistān_, Mir Ẕū'l-fiqār `Alī'u'l-ḥusaini (_pen-name Mūbad_)—Nānak founder of the Sikh religion 461; Rādiyān sect 622; [concerning the authorship of the book _see_ JRAS. H.B.'s art. _q.v.s.n._]. Darwesh-life—soldiering abandoned for 262; return to 583. Dating by events:—Battle of the Goat-leap 16, Dispersion of Aīrzīn 20, Battle of Kānbāī 111-2 [_T.R. trs._ 119]; the dating of 935 AH. 605, App. S. Defrémery C.—[_J. des Savans_ 1873], art. _Les Mémoires de Baber_ (P. de C.) 562. _De Paris à Samarcande_, Madame Ujfalvy—(_see nn. on pp. named_); Barā-koh 5, 6; Samarkand 74-5; _qarā yīghāch_ (hard-wood elm) 81; paper-pulping mortars 81. De Saçy, A. L. Silvestre (_Nat. et Ex._ 265, 285)—Ḥusain Shaikh Tīmūr 273 (_cf._ _Daulat-shah_ (Browne) 538-9); date of Hilāli's death 290. _Dialects of the Hindu-kush_, Col. J. Biddulph—Khowārī 211; forms of "nine" App. E, xix. Dictionaries, Lexicons, Vocabularies:—[_see nn. on pp. named_]; " of Antiquities, W. W. Smith—clepsydra 516; " Arabic-English Lexicon, E. W. Lane—_akhmail_ 336; " _Arabes, Supplèment aux Dictionnaires_, R. Dozy—_baḥri_ (a falcon) App. M, xlvi; " _Bahār-i-`ajam_ (Pers. Dict.), Rāī Tikchana Bahār—a sign of fear 232; the Taftazānī Shaikhs of Islām 283; " _Burhān-i-qāti`_ (Pers. Dict.), Muḥ. Ḥusain b. Khalfa'u't-tabrīzī—_izāra_ (dado) 80; " _Chaghatāī-osmanisches Wörterbuch_, Shaikh Sulaiman Effendi (ed. Kunos)—_tunqiṯār_ 464; _qūtān_ App. N, 1; _sīghnāq_ App. Q, lxiv; " English-Persian, A. N. Wollaston—a rare meaning 648; " Hindustani-English, D. Forbes—changed name of an orange 511; "needle-melting" citron 513; great millet (maize?) 514; names of days 516; gongman _ib._; " Hindustani-English, J. Taylor [ed. W. Hunter]—"sang-tara" and "Cintra" App. O lii; " of Islām, J. P. Hughes—turbans 15; eating of food 44; _maẕhab_ 463; the Eight Paradises 646; legal endowment 701; " Oriental Biographical, T. W. Beale [_ed._ _Keene_]—Khw. Naṣīr _Tūsī_ 79; " of Oriental Quotations, C. Field—a common couplet 22; " Persian-English, F. Steingass—176, 202, 286, (_metres_) 514, 527, 630; _qīzil-bāsh_ 643; " Persico-Latinum Lexicon, I. A. Vullers—_shash-par_ 160; _kaka_ 502; _gharau_ 514; _rād_ (_whence Rādagān_) 622; " Pushtū-English, H. J. Raverty—Multakund 211; " _Sang-lākh_ (Turki-Persian), Muḥ. Mahdi Khān—described App. B, v; _kharpala_ (the "Qarshi birdie") _ib._; contains verses entered as by Bābur 439; " Sanscrit-Bengali-English, Haughton—a stork 499; gula-prawn 502; " of Towns (_Majama`u'l-buldān_), Yāqūt—"Akhsīkīs̤" 9, 10; " _Turc Orientale_, A. Pavet de Courteille—Bābur's verses quoted 439, 526; a wag-tail 501; a meaning 626; Bābur's script App. Q, lxiii; " Turki Vocabulary, R. B. Shaw—_kūk-būrā_ (a game) 39; _qūrūgh_, reserved land 81; _aūpchīnlīk_, 4 horse-shoes and their nails 176; _chārūq_, brogues, and _chāpān_, long coat 187; _qālpāq_, felt wide-awake 258; _qūsh-begi_, a Court official 278; _shaghāwal_ ib. 463; _jīrān_, a deer 491; _qīn_, scabbard 503; _akhta-begi_, master-gelder 538; _būljār_, a rendezvous _etc._ 592; —Part II. J. Scully—_qodan_, water-hen 224; _kīklīk_ (_caccabis_, _chikūr_) 496; _`aqqa_, magpie 501; _qīrīch_, swift 501; _būīā_, a plant 505; _amān-qarā_ (perhaps maize) 504; _aīrkāk-qūmūsh_, male-reed 514. Diseases and accidents:—(_a_) +Babur's+ saddle turns 147; sciatica 253-4; boils 254, 657-60; dislocated wrist 409-13-20; tooth breaks 424; ear-ache 310, 601-8-15; fall of river bank 655; fall of tent 678; wounds of head 150-167, —leg 167-9, —arm-pit 176; +his illnesses+:—unspecified (923) 365; catarrhal discharge (_rezāndalīk_) 446-49-51; fever (903 AH.) 88-9, (911) 247, (925) 399 to 401, (934) 585-6-8, 603-4, (935) 619-20, (937) 702-3-5; (_b_) +Of others+:—child-birth 36; small-pox 48; "violent illness" 45; frost-bite 116, 311; cold 151; ulcerated hand 125; siphylis 279; pestilence 524; paralysis 620; malarial fever 4, 8; fever 33, 246. Diversity of place-names through trs. _see_ (_e.g._) Qīzīl = Surkh, Safed = Spīn. Dividing line of the Afghāns and Khurāsān 200. Divorces 267-8, 329. _Dīwān-i Bābur Pādshāh_, [_ed. Sir E. D. Ross_]—not Bābur's earliest collection 438-9, 447; appears referred to 642; verses suiting his moods and deeds 604, 626-44, 705; verses of the Dīwān in the B.N. 526-75-84-89; the _Wālidiyyah-risala_ and B.'s new ruler 643; Elizabethan conceits 645; concerning the Rāmpūr MS. App. Q, (illustration); 585; 635. _Dīwān-i Khwāja Ḥāfiẓ_ [_ed. H. Brockhaus, trs. W. Clarke_]—a couplet 411. _Dīwān-i Nūru'd-dīn `Abdu'r-raḥmān Jāmī_—a quatrain plagiarized 257. Dīwān-writers mentioned by Bābur—Āhī 289; Ahlī 290; `Alī-sher _Nawā'ī_ (Pers.) 272; Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (_Turkī_) 259; Kāmī 290; Saifī 288; Suhailī 277; Maḥmūd _Barlās_ 51; Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ 46. Domestic animals—ass 144; buffalo 231, 393, 454, 490; camel:—_khachar_ 74, 249, _tīwa_ 232-5, 240, 376-91; camels counted 391; flesh eaten 251; cost of keep 489; gift of 382; —cattle 150, 231-4-5-8, 333-96, 454; symbol of submission 232; —dog 144, 224; elephant _s.n._ Nat. Hist.; horse _see s.n._; mule 194, 338; sheep 50-5, 71, 228, 234-5-8-9, 249-50, 394; swine 211; yāk 55, 490 (here _baḥrī-qūtās_) App. M; —fowls 82, 213; goose 82; pigeon 13, 259, 401. Domestic appliances—china 80, 195, 407; festal ornament 304, App. I; drinking cups 489, 298 and 552; fuel 223, 311; goatskins 371, 421; gong 515; knife 44; lamp 518; litter 254 and 401, 331 n. 3, 268; rope 509; spoon 44, 73 n. 1, 407, 509; table-cloth 44, 132; tooth-pick 407; torch 213-34, 387-8, 518. Dreams—Bābur's 132, (attributed) 132 n. 2, App. D, xi; another's App. D, xii. Dress, articles of—_bāsh-ayāq_ = _sar-u-pā_ (head to foot) _i.a._ 159, 393; bathing-cloth (_fūṯa_) 275, 527; brogues (_chārūq_) 187; caps:—black lambskin (_qarā-qūzī būrk_) 258, ermine (_ās būrk_) 150, _Mughūl būrk_ 15, 179; _muftūl_ or _mūftūnlūq Mughūl būrk_ 159; helm-cap (_dūwulgha būrk_) 167; —_chār-qab_ 304, 527; clasp (_qulāb_) 156; girdle (_tak-bund_) 156, (_bīl-bāgh_ lit. waist-band) 298, (_kamr-bund_) 642; cymar (_khimār_) 561; coats and tunics:—_jāma_ 652, surtout (_jība_) 303, 632, long coat (_chāpān_) 187, sheep-skin coat (_postīn_) 181; short tunic (_nīmcha_) 652; tunic and coat (_tūn_) 14, 51, 159, 166, 371, 400; clothes-in-wear (_artmāq_, _artmāq_) 339;