The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
_Notes on some monuments in Afghanistan_, H. H. Hayden—Bābur's Grave
(illustration) 710, App. V, lxxx.
_Nouvelle Géographie_; _L'Asie Antérieure_, Réclus—[_see nn. on pp.
named_], Farghāna 4, 5, 9;
distances (Akhsī) App. A, v, (Tīrmiẕ-Ḥiṣār) 57;
Samarkand 74, 83, 88;
Mīl-i-rādagān 622;
Kadgar (_i.a._ Qajar) 666;
_sīghnāq_ = fort App. Q, lxiv;
_dābān_ and other pass-names 54.
+Noticeable words+:—
P. _nabīra_ 66, 72;
_nihilam_ (game-driving) 45;
M. _nūyān_ 131, 224-73.
Observatories _see_ Astronomy.
Omens—of the sex of an unborn child App. L;
of success 466, 558.
_Onau_, Sir Charles Elliot—Badshāh-nagar named from Bābur's halt 675.
"Oolak" (baggage-boat), perhaps from T. _aūlūgh_, great 663.
Open-table, maintainers of 39, 45-9, 119, 227.
Opium-eater 385.
_Oriental Biographical Dictionary_, T. W. Beale (_ed. Keene_) _see_
Dictionaries.
_Oriental Proverbs_, T. Roebuck—the "five-days' world" 50.
+Noticeable words+:—
M. Oghlāt = T. Dūghlāt = Qūngūr-āt of Aūzbegs 22.
Pādshāh—uses of the word 1;
title assumed by Bābur 344.
_Pādshāh-nāma_, `Abdu'l-ḥamīd—_lacunæ_ in an early copy of the
_Bābur-nāma_ App. D, x.
_Pādshāh-nāma_, Muḥammad Amīn _Kazwīnī_—Bābur's gardens in and near
Kābul App. V;
[cf. _Malfūzāt-i-tīmūrī_].
Pagan _see_ Kāfir.
Painting and painters—22, 78, 111, 272-91.
_Painting and Painters of Persia_, Martin—Bih-zād 291.
Pargiter, Mr. F. E.—on "_wulsa_" 487-8, Add. Note, P. 487.
Pass-names 54.
Pass-words _see_ Military.
Penmanship and scripts—good writers 28, 111, 278, 291;
the Bāburī-script 228, 642, App. Q, lxii.
Pen-names—`Adilī 111,
Ahī 289,
Ahlī 290,
`Arūzī 288,
Badakhshī 288,
Banā'ī 286,
Bayānī 278,
Fānī and Nawā'ī 272,
Farāqī 137,
Gharbatī 261,
Hātifī 288,
Hilālī 290,
Ḥusainī 259,
Kāmī 290,
Sharaf 448,
Suhailī 277,
Tufailī 278,
Wafā'ī 38, etc.
_Persia and the Persian Question_, Lord Curzon—its "Radkan"
explained 622.
Persian Grammar, J. T. Platts (_ed. Ranking_) lunar months App. L, lxx.
_Persian Poets_, Sir W. Ouseley—Khwāja Kamāl 8.
"Pharoah" used as an epithet 39.
_Poems of Niẕāmī_ (_Meçon and Lahor eds._)—_Haft Paikar_ quoted 6;
_Khusrau u Shīrīn_:—parricide 85, Add. Note, P. 85;
death inevitable 182 [_here Turkī_], App. D, xi [_here Pers.; Maçon
ed. iii, 1589_];
Fate an avenging servitor 251, Add. Note, P. 251 [_f. 281 in MS. of
317 ff._];
swift action a maker of victory 625;
lovers' marks Add. Note, P. 16;
—the _Khamsatīn_ 15, 288.[2963]
_Poems of Nūru'd-dīn `Abdu'r-raḥmān Jāmī_—an exposition of the
_Nafaḥāt_ 284;
the metre of the _Subḥatu'l-abrār_ adopted in the
_Shaibānī-nāma_ 289,
and in the _Wālidiyyah-risāla_ 620 (_where read raḥmān for
"raḥīm"_).
_Poems of Kipling_—"My Lord the Elephant" 208;
"The Border-thief" 308;
"If—--" 320.
Poison—suspected 302, 576;
given to Bābur 541;
revealed by rhino-horn 489;
antidotes, lime-juice 511,
Lemnian Earth 543.
_Political Mission to Afghanistan and Seistan_, H. W. Bellew—birds
at Āb-istāda 240;
Qandahār 430, App. J, xxxiii.
_Polyglot List of Birds_, E. Denison Ross, Ph. D.—373, 495-6-7-8,
500, App. M, xlvi.
_Popular Religion of Northern India_, W. Crooks—Sarsāwa 467.
Prayers, The Five—`Umar Shaikh's observance of 15;
voluntary Sunnat-prayer 100;
Bābur (_æt._ 12) less neglects the after-midnight prayer 44;
Aḥmad _Mīrān-shāhī_ observes on drinking-days 33;
a reverse case 111;
Erskine on their "performance" 258;
time expressed by their names _passim_.
Prisoners—rebels killed 69, 113;
war-captives killed 233, 466-8;
set free 37, 237, 313, 371, 413;
traitors pardoned 317-9, 320, 345.
_Projectile-throwing engines of the ancients_,
Sir W. F. Payne-Gallwey—stone ammunition 667.
Promotions—to begs rank from the household-circle 104;
household beg to Great Beg 86, 104;
_yasāwal_ to beg 273;
to begship 87, 114, 278;
_qūrchī_ to _qūr-begī_ 252;
brave to beg 396;
—a beg self-made 118;
(`Askari) to preside in Dīwān 628;
(a Mīrzā) to royal insigna 662, 706;
to use of the _tūgh_ (standard), frequent.
Proverbs and sayings—90, 117, 24-5-8, 145-66-77-82-84-90-93, 223-7-8,
254, 310, 453-94, 542-3, 703.
Punishments—beard shaved off 404;
blinding 50, 63, 95, 194, 266;
bow-stringing 110, 194;
quartering 238, 454, 543;
hanging 345;
impalement 341;
nose-slitting 234, 383;
parade mutilated 404, 234;
shooting 543;
skinning alive 542;
for disloyalty 70, 113.
Puns and Quips—44, 115, 136-7, 150, 189, 287, 391, 529, 648.
+Noticeable words+:—
P. _pahr_ and _pās_ distinguished 634;
_postīn_ 10.
_Qandahar in 1879_ AD., Le Mesurier—the old town 431;
stone-ammunition _ib._
_Qandahar_ see _La grande inscription de Q._
_Qaṣidatu'l-burda_, Al-buṣīrī—Bābur works from its motive 620;
[cf. Réné Basset].
_qibla_—discrepancy 79.
_qizil-bash_ (red-head) 266, 618-22-30-35.
The Qoran (_trs. G. Sale_)—quoted by Bābur 194, 316, 449;
read by or to him, remedially, 401, Add. Note, P. 401, 585;
copied by him in his Script 228;
obeyed as to the Khams (5th) of booty 324;
referred to by him 517;
—`Umar Shaikh a reader of 15, Preface xxx;
transcribers of 38, 481;
recited 246, 301;
frequent quotations by Shaikh Zain 553 to -6, 559 to -74;
quoted on a Samarkand arch 77;
sworn on 179, 557;
Shaibānī makes exposition of 329;
a collection of homonymous verses 285;
Sale's Intro, referred to 562-3.
Quatremère, E.—(_N. et Ex._) 446-59, (_J. des Savans, 1843_) 605.
_Qirānu's-sa`dain_, Amīr Khusrau—a couplet quoted 503 (H.B.).
+Noticeable words:+—
_qābāq_ 34;
_qāchār_ (punned on) 44;
_qārī_ (a measure) 7;
_qarā-tīyāq_ 101, 103;
_qāzāqlar_ (guerilla times) 35;
_qāptāl_ (part of a saddle) 253;
_qūba-yūzlūq_ (fat-faced) 14;
_qurchī_ (armourer, life-guardsman) _i.a._ 188, 288;
_qūchīn_ = _mīng-begī_ 26, 40;
_qūrghān_ (walled-town) _i.a._ 3, 5, 8, 10;
_qūrūq_ (reserved land) 81, 168, 197;
_qūshūq_ (improvised dance and song) 24;
_qumīz_ (fermented mare-milk) 155;
_qūchūsh_ (embrace) 160;
_qūlāch_ (a measure) 406.
_Races of Afghanistan_, H. W. Bellew—Khīlīch 29 (_where read title
as above_).
Raft—(Farghāna) 161, 180;
(Kābul) 410-11-12-21-22-23, 447-8.
_Rāmacārita_, H. Sastri (_Memoirs, AS Bengal_) Nagarahāra App. E,
xxiii.
Rāmpūr MS. of Bābur's Diwān, Preface 1, App. Q.
Rapid travel—Aūrā-tīpa to Bābā Khākī 25;
Kishm to Qandahār 621;
Kābul to Āgra 621.
_Rashaḥāt-i-`ainu'l-ḥayāt_ [_Tricklings from the Fount of Life_]
`Alī _Kāshifī_— Khwājakī Khwāja 62;
Aḥrārī 620;
[_not known to Erskine_].
_Rauẓatu's-ṣafā_, Mīr Khwānd—referred to (?) 11;
Bābā-i-kābulī 14;
Hazārāspī 50;
a chronogram 85;
the Chaghatāī Khāns (908 AH.) 161.
_Récueils d'Itinéraires_, Th. Radloff—fruit as food in C. Asia 3, 114;
position of Yītī-kīnt 11;
elevation to Khānship 21;
Pul-i-mougak 68 (Khorochkine's art.);
battle-cries 163.
Reports:—
" _on the Ghilzai country_, J. S. Broadfoot [ed. W. Broadfoot]—birds
at Āb-istāda 240;
" _of the Indian Archeological Survey_, Cunningham & Ferguson—[_see
nn. on pp. named_], places Bābur visited 475-6;
a Gūālīār dynasty's term of rule 477;
Chandīrī 592-7, App. R, (plan);
Gūālīār 605-7 to 13;
App. R, (plan);
Saṃbhal 687;
—Annual Report 1914—_kos-mīnār_ 629;
" _on Karnal_, D. Ibbetson—Mundāhirs 700;
" _of Mission to Kāshghar_, Col. J. Biddulph's art.—_marāl_ 8;
" _Persian Boundary Commission_, W. T. Blanford's art.—_Pteroclas
arenarius_ App. B, vi;
—A. Gérard's art.—irrigation-channels of Aūsh (Ūsh) 4;
" _Settlement Operations etc._, Reid—old alluvium on the Gogrā
667;
narrowing of the river 669;
Reports (_I. O. Library_) I, VI, VII, J. Wood—vine-culture 210;
Ghūr-bund 214;
_bootr_ (a plant) 222;
climate-shed 229;
—VI, VII, D. Leach—204-5-6-13-38;
—IX, X, Alex. Burnes—Kābul 199;
unchanging trade-habits of Luḥānīs 235.
"Rescue-passage" 182, App. D;
Preface xlv (No. viii).
_Revenue Accounts_ (_Bengal_), F. Gladwin—dating of 935 AH. 629,
App. S;
_tanāb_-measure 630.
_Revenue resources of the Mughal Empire_, E. Thomas—coin-values 446;
_ṯamghā_ 553;
Sikandarī _tanka_ 577.
Revenues various—Farghāna 12,
Tātār Khān _Lūdī's_ 383,
Kābul-town 250,
Hindustān 520, App. P.
_Rhétorique_, Garçin de Tassy—_combinaisons énigmatiques_ 202.
_Ride from Samarkand to Herat_, N. Grodekoff (_trs.
Marvin_)—Pul-i-chīrāgh 69;
Chār-shaṃba 71.
_Riyazu's-salāṯīn_, Ghulām-i-husain—a Lūdī alliance 482.
Roads measured—Agra-Kabul 629;
Munīr to camp by horse-paces 666;
Chunār eastwards 659.
ruler, _misṯār_—a new one for copying the _Wālidiyyah-risāla_ 643.
_Russian Policy in Central Asia_, Grigorief (_Schuyler's Turkistan_
App. IV)—Bābur's embassy to Moscow App. Q, lxiii;
Peter the Great's embassy to Bukhara Preface p. liii.
Sachau, C.—on the _Malfūzāt-i-tīmūrī_ 653.
_Ṣāḥih-i-bukhārī_, Ismā`īl _Khartank_—his native land 76.
Sainthood—courage a witness to 90.
_Siyaru'l-muta`akhirīn_, Ghulām-i-ḥusain Khān—trepanning 105.
Salt, fidelity to 125, 440.
Samarkand begs—action of 52, 62, 86, 124-5.
Samarkandis—displeased with a Mīrzā 42;
overjoyed at his death 52;
no scarcity in a siege 64;
move against Bukhārā 65;
oppose Bābur 72;
their orthodoxy 75;
joy at Bābur's return 131-3.
Sanctuary 63.
_Sang-lākh_ _see_ Dictionaries.
Sārt, Sāīrt—Bābur's serviceable use of the name 6, 7, 149;
a "Sāīrt"'s blunder 169.
_Science of Language_, Max Müller—guest-tribes 227.
Scottish service for the _Bābur-nāma_, Preface xlvii, xlviii.
_Second Afghan War (Official Account)_—its maps 201-6, 229, 314-32;
Chār-dih 200;
Qandahār App. J, xxxiii;
`Alī-masjid 450;
a valuable book in following Babur's campaigns, 333.
_Second Journey through Persia_, J. J. Morier (Ḥājī Bābā)—a bird App.
B, vi.
Sects, Muḥammadan—Mātarīdiyah, Ash`ariyah, Abū Ḥanīfa's 75-6,
Shafi`ī 283;
Radīyān 625.
_Shāhī Kings of Kābul_, Sir Aurel Stein—200.
_Shāh-nāma_, Firdausī [_trs. Warner_] Chāchī bow, _khadang_ arrows 13;
much read 15;
Bāqī Tarkhān sketched 40;
a couplet 557;
a quatrain 571.
_Shaibānī-nāma_, Muḥ. Ṣāliḥ Mīrzā [_ed. Vambéry_]—[_see nn. on pp.
named_], writes "Shaibānī" not Shaibāq 12;
Sh.'s marriages, with Bābur's sister 17-8, 147,
and with Zuhra _Aūzbeg_ 126-8;
his dealings with Zuhra's son `Alī 126-8,
with Bābur 144-6-7,
with the Chaghatāī Khāns 182-3-4;
later action 191-2;
—Taṃbal 145, 244;
others 40, 62, 101, 196;
Chīn Ṣūfī 242-56;
Khusrau Shāh's jewels 144;
Oghlāt (Dūghlāt) 22;