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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

torque (_ṯauq_) 561; head-wear (_bāshlīq_) 632; _lung_ (_dhoti_) 519; rain-cloak (_kīpīng_) 389; feather tippet 496; turban 14, 33, 101, 258; turban-aigrette 225, 325; wide-awake (_qālpāq_); vest (_kūnglāk_) 171. Drums—nagaret 144, 155, 250, 337, 369, 628; of departure 235, morning 392, saddle 163-4; drumming sound [at the Running Sands] 315; dismissal of 595; tambour-player 247. _Durch Asien's Wüsten_, Sven Hedin—Farghāna wind 9. Dynasties—Bāhmani 482; Qīlīch 29; Tūghlūq 451; Shaibānī's destruction of 39; "Mughūl Dynasty" a misnomer in Hind 158 (_see s.nn. Turk and Mughūl_). +Noticeable words:+— _dābān_, a difficult defile; _dādā_ 157 (_see ṯaghāī_); Ar. _daur_, warp of a bow, App. C; _dīm_ [_T root de_, _telling_] = P. _san_, numbering 154[2954], 161, 468, Add. Note, P. 54. Ear-rings 510 (_where add (in l. 5) an omitted passage entered in App. O, liv_). _Economic Products of India_, Watts—date-plum 210; fish-drugs 226; oranges var. 512. Editors mentioned _in loco_—A. S. Beveridge, G. B.'s _Humāyūn-nāma_, and Fac-simile of the Ḥaidarābād Codex; H. Brockhaus, _Die Lieder des Hafis_; E. G. Browne, _Taẕkirātu'sh-shu`arā_ (Memoirs of Poets), _Tārīkh-i-guzīda_ (Select History); C. M. Fræhn, _Shajarat-i Turk_ (Genealogical Tree of the Turk); N. I. Ilminski, _Bāber-nāma_ (Kasan Imprint); I. Kūnos, Shaikh Sulaimān _Effendī's_ Vocabulary; D. C. Phillott, _Taẕkirāt-i T̤ahmāsp_; E. D. Ross, _Bābur's Dīwān_ (Rāmpūr MS.), and Three Turkī MSS. from Kashghar; C. Schafer, _Siyāsat-nāma_; R. C. Temple, _Peter Munday's Travels_; F. Veliaminof-Zernov, _Abūshqa_; H. Yule, Wood's _Journey_. _Einblicke in das Farghana Thal_—A. I. v. Middendorf—winds 9. Elphinstone, Hon. M.—his Codex _see s.n. Bābur-nāma_. Embassy from Bābur to Moscow App. Q, lxiii. _Embassy to Timur_, Ruy Gonsalves di Clavigo (_trs. Sir C. Markham_)—Hindustan the Less 46; kneeling in greeting 54; Samarkand 74-5-8; Kesh 83. _Encyclopædia Britannica_—range of temperature 204; Farīdu'd-dīn _`At̤t̤ār_ 271; rhinohorns 408; maize when first in Asia 509. _Encyclopædia of Islām_—Réné Basset's art. Al-buṣīrī 620. Erskine William—Preface xxxiii, xliii-iv-viii-ix, Cap. IV, [_see Memoirs of Baber and History of India_]. _Essays_, Lord Bacon—Ismā`īl _Ṣafawī's_ personal beauty 441. Etiquette and decorum—well-mannered 45, 271-3-6, 303; knees not crossed 33; feet hidden 34; deference to elders 303; epistolary 332; farewell 330; —+Interviews+:—kneeling 61-9, 301, 408; looking one another in the eyes (_i.a._) 54, 64; embrace 160; +—Meetings+:—The Khāns with Bābur 54, 159, 169; the two Khāns 160; Tīmūriya reception 59; Bābur and the Bāī-qarā Mīrzās 297-8-9, and elder Begims 301-97; his reception of Khusrau Shāh 193, Daulat Khān 459, Naṣrat Shāh's envoy 640-1. Exemplars of Bābur—Preface, Cap. I. _Expédition scientifique Française_, C. E. Ujfalvy—_yīghāch_ (_measure_) 4; Aūsh (Ūsh) 5; Barā-koh 5; Bābur's serviceable "Farsī-gūī" 7; misreading (?) App. A, ii; distances near old Akhsī _ib._ v; Samarkand 74; Āb-burdan 152. _Explorations in Turkistan_, R. Pumpelly—Āq-būrā-rūd (_Huntingdon's art._) 5; Akhsī App. A, i, v. _Fair at Sakhī-sarwār_, Michael Macauliffe—238. _Famous Monuments of Central India_, Sir Lepel H. Griffin—Gūālīār 605. _Fān-valley_, W. R. Rickmers—[_JRGS. 1907_], Sara-tāq-dābān 129; Āb-burdan 152. _Farhang-i-aẕfarī_ [_Turki-Pers. Dict._] _nihilam_ explained 45. _Fauna of British India_, Oates and Blanford—flying-squirrel and snow-cock 213 nn. 5, 6, 7; various birds 495, 497, 501. Festivals—Bābur's Rāmẓān rule 584; Īd-i-fiṯr 66, 235, 311, 351, 410, 584, 683, 689; Īd-i-qurb-ān 154; Nū-roz 236; approximation of Nū-roz and Īd-i-fiṯr 236. Fifth-share (_Khams_) 324. Five-days' World 50, 128, 328. _Flora Indica_, W. Roxburgh—spikenard 392; _mahuwā_ 505; _gūlar_ 508; _chirūnji_ _ib._; _kīūrā_ 514. "Florio Beg _Beneveni_", Secretary to a Russian Mission, Preface xliv. Folk-lore—test of a dead woman's virtue 212; blizzard-raising spring 219; "commerce with the Spheres" 275; eye-bewitchment 664; omen as to sex of an unborn babe App. L; succession customs 482. Food (_ex. birds and fruits_)—bread 148 (_cf. A.N. trs. i, 421 for spiced bread, also Memoirs p. 144 n._); brochettes (_kabāb_) 148, 415; betel 440; camel-flesh 493; carrots 542; cheese 394; meat cold 411; date-palm cheese 508; dried meat 542; fritters 541; haggis 506; hare 542; honey 203, 409, 440; lotus seed 660; mango preserve 440; millet porridge 181; pistachio nuts 508 (cf. _s.n._ Nat. Hist.). _A Frontier Campaign_, Lord Fincastle—_khahr_ = _shahr_ 367; Katgola and Panj-kūra 374. Frontier-posts 213. Games and amusements—acrobats 635; cards 584; chess 38, 275-84-87; dancing 276-99, 303; dancing-girls 522, 634; dice 16, 275-8; draughts 16, 278; feats of archery _q.v._; fights of cocks 259, rams 259, elephants 631, camels 631; improvisation and recitation of verse 16, 26, Preface xxx; _kūk-būrā_ 39; leap-frog 26; pigeon-flying 13, 259; polo (_chaughān_) 26; wrestling 292, 660-83, Index I. _s. nn._ Dost-i-yāsīn, Ṣādīq; hawking and fowling _see s.n._ Gardens—+Andijān+:—Chār-bāgh 29, Ḥāfiẓ Beg's 108, Birds' 168, Aūsh 5, Asfara 7, Kāsān 10; Tāshkīnt:—Ḥaidar Kūkūl-dāsh's 54, Poplar 145, 146; +Samarkand+:—Heart-expanding 78, 82, New 62, 138, North, Paradise, Plane-tree 78, Plain's 92, Porcelain, World-picture 78, Darwesh Tarkhān's 80, 81; +Kābul+:—Almshouse 315, Avenue 647, Bābur's Burial-garden 709 _see_ illustrations, Chār-bāgh 249-51-54, 346-97-98, 416-7-8, Ḥaidar _Tāqī's_ 198, 401, Khalīfa's 315, Little 198, Paradise 315-6-7, Plane-tree 401, 418, Private 346-97, Rendezvous (?) 346, Violet 395, 415-7; +Koh-dāman+:—Istālif 216-7, 398, 416, New Year's 246, Royal 418; +Nīng-nahār+:—447, Adīnapūr 207 and n. 5, Chār-bāgh, Fidelity 207 n. 5, 208, 394, 409, 414-21-22, 443-7; Qarā-tu 395; +Herāt+:—`Alī-sher's 305, Marigold, Town, White 306, Raven's 134, 306; +Hindustan+:—_Ṣafā_ (purity) 381, 665, (Agra), Chār-bāgh, Eight-paradises 531-3-7, 543-4, 548, 616-34-86, Gold-scattering 640-41, 689 n. 3, *708, Garden of Rest 709, (+Dūlpūr+) Chār-bāgh 603-6-15, Lotus 639, (on the Gagar) 465, (Sīkrī) 581-4, (+Gūālīār+) 607-10-12-13-14. Gardening _see_ "Indian" and "Manual". The Gate—Lordship in 24; Bābur's 26, 32; the place of judgment 24, 197, 259; Gate-house 43; between-the-doors 24, 100, 133; waiting in 277; gate-ward post 166. _Gates of India_, Sir T. H. Holdich—a Central Asian claim to Greek descent 22; headwaters in Koh-i-baba 216; a route 310. Gazetteers:—[_see nn. on pp. named_]; " of India [ed. 1908-9]—Observatories 79; Nīl-āb 206; Gūr-khattri 230; Pīr Kānū 238; Sawātī 378; Parhāla 387; Nagarahāra App. E, xvii, xx (Bellew); the Gagar (Kakar, Ghagghar) 465; Bāgar 573; Chandawār, Chandwār 581-9, 643; Lukhnūr 582; Sarwān 587; Sikandra Rao _ib._; Gūālīār 605, 610, 611; Parsarūr 684;—Gujūr 250; Kakar 386; Luḥānī (var.) 455; Mundāhir 700; —brackish streams 384; a ruined range 486; a hunting-ground (Bārī) 509; Jūna(h)pūr = Junpūr 676; —tree squirrel 492; frogs 503; _yāk_ App. M, xlvii. District Gs. of India:—Allahabad, (H. G. Neville), 653; `Azamgarh, ("), 680; Ballia, ("), 664, 667; Etawa, (Drake-Brockmann), 644 nn. 2, 6; Fathpur, (H. G. Neville), 651; Fyzabad, (") 656, App. U; Ghazipur, (Drake-Brockmann), 658; Gualiar, C. E. Luard, 590-4-7, 605-9, 610-12-13-14; Gurgaon, (F. Cunningham), 578-80; Jihlam, ("), 452, 461; Mainpuri, (E. R. Neave), 643-4; Rawalpindi, (F. A. Robertson), 452; Saran, (L. L. S. O'Malley), 664; Shahabad (D. B. Allen), 664; Sultanpur, (H. G. Neville), 683; Ulwar, Alwar (P. W. Powlett), 557-8. Gazetteers of the Province of Oude, App. T, lxxv, lxxvi. " of the Turkistan Region, Col. L. F. Kostenko —+Farghāna:+—passes 2; fruits 3; cooking recipe 4; fever 4; running-waters 5; Āq-būrā-rūd 5; Khujand 7, 8; Mogol-tau 8; Sang-ferry 176; —+Samarkand:+—74; extent of town 75, 145; Kohīk-sū 76; paper-making 81; Āb-burdan 15; three passes 83, 90, 129; Lake Iskandar 129; —distances 4, 6, 75, 84; ravines App. A, ii; various _ib._ v; rapid riding 25; _kūk-būrā_ 37; Sārts and their tongues 6, 7; Central Asian claim to Greek descent 22. _Géographie_, Abū'l-feda [_trs. Reinaud_]—land cultivated by the Zar-afshān (Kohik) 76; Naṣīr _Tūsī_ 79; names of Qarshī 84. _Geography and History of Bengal_, H. Blochmann—Habshi succession-customs 452. " _of the Qandahār Inscription_, T. Beames [JRAS. 1898]—revision incomplete App. T. xxxiv. " _Oriental_ [_Ashkālu'l-bilād_] Ibn Ḥauqāl, [_trs. Ouseley_]—absorption of the Sīr 3; "Banakas̤" 9; Akhsī App. A, ii, iii; Kohik irrigation 76; Samarkand Gates 77; Qarshi names 84. Geographical unit, [_village and its cultivated land_] 3. _Geschichte von schönen Redekünste Persiens_, Freiherr v. Hammer-Purgstall—Hilālī 290; _Shāh u Darwesh_ 290; Sām Mīrzā's jeer 648. _Ghiyāsu'l-lughāt_ (Pers. Dict.), Muḥ. Ghiyāsu'd-dīn _Rāmpūrī_—_kardi_-peach 504. Ghulām-i-muḥammad (_collaborator with Raverty_)—Nijr-au 213; Nīl-āb 206; Bābur's frontier-posts 213; a route 208. Gibb, E. J. Wilkinson, Memorial Trust—Preface xlvii. _Glossary of Terms_, H. H. Wilson—_ser_ (_sīr_)-measure 517; _tanāb_-measure 630. _The Golden Bough_, T. G. Frazer—a succession custom 482. _Goswara Inscription_, Kittoe and Kielhorn [_I.A. 1888_]—App. E, xviii-ix, xxii. Grant, Mr. Ogilvie—his help App. B, vii. _Great Diamonds of the World_, E. W. Streeter—its Koh-i-nūr account incomplete 477. Greek descent, 22, 341. Guest-begs 141, 227. Gul-badan Begīm (_Lady Rosebody_) _see_ H. N. _Gulistān_, Sa`dī [_trs. Eastwick_]—quoted 42, 152-8, 190, 313. _Gulzār-i-Bihār_, Ajodhya Prasad—rulers in Tirhut and Darbanga App. P, lvii; varied by Sir G. A. Grierson (_I. A._ 1885) _ib._ n. 1. +Noticeable words:+— P. _gosha_, bow-tip and notch App. C; P. _gosha-gīr_, an archer's repairing-tool 160-6, App. C, = _chaprās_ and _kadāng_; P. _ghūnchachī_ 17. _Ḥabību's-siyar_, Khwānd-amīr—[_see nn. on pp. named_];