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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

Chirkas sword 65; Khwāst a hell 221, _bāghrī qarā_ App. B, v, vii; the book and its author 64, 120-1-7 [_cf. Tuḥfa-i-Sāmī I.O. 655, f. 342_]. _Shajarat-i Turk_, Abū'l-ghāzī Mīrzā [_ed. Fræhn, trs. Désmaisons_]—[_see nn. on pp. named_], "Nurīm" Sherīm _etc._ 29; an archer's mark 34; _san_ = _dīm_ 154; _tūghāī_, _tūqāī_ (bend of a river) 643; a Shabān sulṯān 265; of Bābur's descent _see_ its Introduction. _Shajaratu'l-atrāk_, Aūlugh _Beg Shahrukhī_ (trs. Miles)—Bābur's descent _see_ its Introduction. _Sharaf-nāma_, Sharaf Khān (_trs. F. E. Charmoy_)—Battle of Jām 635. Sharafu'd-dīn `Alī _Yazdī_—his book on enigmas 201; his _Z̤afar-nāma_ (see _s.n._) Preface xxix. Shaving—Bābur's first 187; Humāyūn notes his in the B.N. 466; beard shaved as punishment 404; untrimmed by vow 552; head shaved 408, 649. Shī`a heresy—instances 258-62-86, 111 (and return); Bābur's fatal Shī`a alliance, 347-54-55-61, Preface xxxv. Sikh religion—Nānak's exposition to Bābur 461; Nānak and Daulat Khān _ib._ _Siyāsat-nāma_ [_Traité de gouvernement_], Wazīr Niẕamu'l-mulk, [_ed. C. Schefer_]—use of a whip in making count of an army 154. Slaves—slave-women retaliate on their owner's murderers 63, are captured at the Samarkand ditch 73, taken by crocodiles 502; slave-agents in poisoning Bābur 541; —Shāh Beg's faithful slave _see_ Saṃbhal; the chief-slave 346; slave-trade between Hind and Kābul 202; —Mīnglī Bībī, a slave-woman 269. Song by Wordsworth recalled—the "undying fish" 305. _Spanish Literature_, Ticknor—Montalvan on Lope de Vega 287. _Sport and politics under an Eastern sky_, Lord Ronaldshay—_marāl_ 8. _" and Travel_, F. C. Selous—_marāl_ 8. Square seal—Abū-sa`īd's 28. Standards (_tūgh_, _qūtās-tūgh_)—acclaimed 155; bestowed 372 _etc._; Bābur's 140-66 _etc._ _Sūlūku'l-mulūk_, Faẓl b. Ruzbahān _Isfahānī_—value as a source 348; supports the form "Bābur" 356. _Supplément etc._, R. Dozy _see_ Dictionaries. Swimming—man and horse in mail 140, 237; man and horse bare 237; competition 401; on bundles of reeds 673; Bābur's (in mail) 140, 603-55-660-61. +Noticeable words+:— P. _sar-i-sabz_, green-head 66, 703; P. _sar-kob_ 53-9[2964]; _sangur_ 232; _sīghnāq_, a script App. Q, lxiii. _T̤abaqāt-i-akbarī_, Niẕāmu'd-dīn Ahmad—[_see nn. on pp. named_], Bāburī Script 228, App. Q, lxii; _Jang-jang_ 370; date of Shāh Beg's death 437; Hazāras serve Bābur 457; Gujrāt affairs 535; Multan affairs 699; Bābur's Kashmīr force 692-8; the author's father 691; proposed supersession in Hind of Bābur's sons 644-88-92-93, discussed 702 ff.; the book plagiarized 693. " _-i-bāburi_, Shaikh Zainu'd-dīn _Khawāfī_ _see_ B.N. and Zain. " _-i-nāṣirī_, Minhaj [_trs. Raverty_] Sātūq-būghrā Khān 29 [_where read T̤abaqāt_]; Chandwāl 537; quoted by Bābur 479; described by Erskine 279; used in Appendix E, xxiii. _ṯamghā_ (_lit. stamp_), a transit or customs duty 250; forms the revenue of Kābul town _ib._; Ḥusain _Bai-qarā_ marks his stamps _Bih bud_ (_valid_) 271; remission of 553-95; a _ṯamghāchī_ clerk 629. _Tārīkh-i-`ālam-arāī_, Mīr Sikandar—[_see nn. on pp. named_], its Ṣafawī outlook 349; T̤ahmasp's Aūzbeg campaign 622; Battle of Jām 623; insignificant appearance of `Ubaidu'l-lāh 636. " _-i-badāyūnī_ see _Muntakhabu't-tawārīkh_. " _-i-daudī_, `Abdu'l-lāh—"Shaikh" and "Mīān" interchangeable titles 457. " _-i-firishta_, Muḥ. Qāsim _Firishta_ [_trs. Major-Gen. J. Briggs_]—`Umar Shaikh 13; a mistake 15; Bābur's reluctance to rank himself with Tīmūr 134; his single combats 329; his sobriquet Qalandar 523; his Embassy to Persia 540; his siege of Chandīrī 596; —Yar-i-`alī _Balāl_ 91; Ghāzī Khan's literary culture 460; the cognomen _jān-dār_ 566; Badrū-ferry over Gogrā 667; —value of the book as a source 208, 349, 694; date of its revision 694. _Tārīkh-i-Gūālīārwār_, Jalāl _Ḥiṣārī_ and Hirā-man—Gūāliār 605; Khw. Raḥīm-dād 607, 688, 704. " _-i-Hājī Muḥ_. _`Ārīf Qandahārī_—account of Qandahār 348. " _-i-Khān-i-jahān Lūdī_, Ni`amatu'l-lāh—helped in his book by Haibat Khan 693. " _-i-rashīdī_, [Muḥ. ] Haidar Mirza _Dūghlāt_ [_ed. Ney Elias, trs. E. D. Ross_]—+Places+:—Ālmalīgh 2; Yītī-kīnt 11; Qilāt-i-nādarī 263; Qila`-i-ẕafar 21; Herāt 306; Qandahār [Insc.] App. J, xxxv; +Tribes _etc._+:—tūmān-begs 17; _qūchīn_ 26; _chuhra-jirga_ App. H, xxvii; Chaghatāīs and Mughūls distinguished 320; Chaghatāī or Timurid supremacy 344, Begchīks 50, 712 or Chīrās 155; Tarkhāns 31; Greek descent 317; Jīgrāks 55; Turkmān Hazāras 311; +Persons+:—12—App. A, iii; 21, 23, 32, 48, 62; Jahāngīr 183, 254-94-302, 195-242-56, 249-272, 273; 330-41-96-7, 409; 641; 694-6; +Varia+:—fruit as food 3; _yāk_, _qūṯās_ App. M, xlvii; on joint-rule 293; epoch-making events 20, 35, 158, 182, 350; +Bābur+:—name 17; character 194, 320; Script App. Q, lxii; disastrous expedition (910 AH.) 241; relationships 246; single combats 349; Tramontane campaign 349 to 366; hospitality to exiles 350; a frontier affair 412; onset of last illness 706; +Haidar+:—his life saved 21; descent and other particulars 22; excuses his father 317; his list of tribes and chiefs valuable 415; his book of great and, perhaps, unique value for Bābur's _lacunæ_ 347-8; referred to Preface xxxiv, xxxviii; his Codex xli, xlii (No. iv). " _-i-salāṯīn-i-afāghana_, Aḥmad Yādgār [_part-trs. E. & D. vol. I_]—Hindustan in 929 AH. 439-40; Pānīpat 474; Bābur's visit to Lāhor (936 AH.) 604-98 to 700, 703-6; Mundāhirs 700; anachronism 707; Bābur's "selection" of a successor 707; importance of its contribution for filling a _lacuna_ 693, 702-6. " _-i-shahrukhī_, Niyāz Muḥ. _Khukandī_—tradition of a babe abandoned 358. " _-i-sher-shāhī_, `Abbas Khān _Sarwānī_—"Shaikh" and "Mīān" 457; `Aẕam Humāyūn 477; Sher Khān _Sūr_ 659, 664. " _-i-Sind_, Muḥ. Ma`ṣūm _Bhakkarī_—a chief authority 336, 428; Shāh Beg 338, 427, (death) 437; sieges of Qandahār 431 to 436; the Inscription App. J, xxxiii. Tarkhān—suitable meaning 31 [where add ref. E. & D.'s H. of I. i, 300, 20, 21, 498] privileges nine 250; not given to all Arghūn chiefs 249 n. 2; a merchant Tarkhān 133; marriages 49, Preface xxviii; revolt 61 to 64, 86, 112; see _s.n. Nine_ & H. Beveridge's note on Etruscan names. _Tarkhān-nāma_ or _Arghūn-nāma_, Sayyid Jamāl—a useful source 428. _Tawārīkh-i-guzīda_—(Select Histories)—fashions of sitting and kneeling 33, 54-9; Tūlūn Khwāja _Mughūl_ 66; supplements the B. N. 127. " _-i-ḥāfī-i-raḥmat-khānī_ (_part-trs. H. Beveridge_ AQR. 1901)—Bībī Mubār-ika's marriage with Bābur 375, App. K, _An Afghan Legend_. _Taẕkirātu'sh-shu`arā_ (_Memoirs of Poets_) Daulat-shāh (_ed. Browne_)—[_see nn. on pp. named_], Akhsīkītī 9; dates of Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī's_ boyhood 46; Aḥmad _Mushtāq_ 47; Hazārāspī 50; a couplet 85; Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ 259-60-73; Gāzur-gāhi's good birth 281; Rabāt-i-sangbast 301-30; Bih-būd Beg App. H, xxvi-vii; Rādagān-(town) 622; Jamī's birthplace 623; —the author in the battle of Chīkmān-sarāī 46; one of his collaterals 274. " _-i-Sul[t]ān Sātūq-būghrā Khān_—a seeming descendant 29. " _-i-T̤ahmāsp_, Shāh T̤ahmāsp _Ṣafawī_ (_ed. D. C. Phillott_)—Div Sulṯān 635; battle of Jām 636. " _-i-Wāqi`āt_ (_var._) Jauhar (_trs. C. Stewart_)—outside literary criticism 619; a date at which Bābur's body lay near Kābul 709. +Tents+—_ālāchūq_ 188; _aūtāgh_ 339; _aq-awi = chādar_ 169-88, 239, (flooded) 339, 678; _chār-tāq_ 264; _khar-gāh_ ( = _kibītka_, and _ālāchuq_ ?) 239, 678; —_shamīāna_ (awning) 358; _tūnglūq_ (roof-flap) 678; _pesh-khāna_ 678. _Thesaurus_, Meninsky—_bāghrīqarā_ cry App. B, vi; _baḥrī-qūṯās_ App. M, xlvi. Thomas, F. W., Ph.D.—his help App. J, lxxiv with Preface lii. Thorn-defences 487. Timūr-pūlād, buys a Codex of the _W'āqi`nāma-i-padshahī_ _q.v._ _Three (Turkī) MSS. from Kāshghar_ [_ed. Sir E. Denison Ross_]—the title _Jūn-wang_ 567. _Through unknown Pamirs_, O. Olufsen—yāk App. M, xlvii. The Times—on diverse names of a single place 209. Tongues and utterance—Andijān Turkī 4; Farsī (Persian)-speaking Sārts of Asfara 7; Kābul's polyglot tongues 207; Mughūlī-speaking Hazāras; Bābur on clipped Hindustanī utterance 380, and on the words Kās and Sawālak 485. Trade—202-35, 331, 416-85. Traditions—4, 5; one versed in 283-4. Translators:—Bābur [_Wal.-ris._]; E. C. Bayley (_Mirāt_); A. S. Beveridge [_s.n._]; H. Beveridge [_s.n._]; H. Blochmann [_s.n._]; H. S. Jarrett [_Ayīn_]; J. Briggs [_Tar.-i-fir._]; F. C. Charmoy [_Sharaf-n._]; W. Clarke [Dīwān-i-Ḥ.]; A. P. de Courteille [_Méms._]; Delmar-Morgan [_Mong._]; Desmaisons [_Shaj.-i-Turk_]; E. B. Eastwick [_Gul._]; H. M. Elliot and J. Dowson [_H. of I._]; Forster & Daniel [_Life of O. de B._]; C. Hamilton [_Hidāyat_]; W. H. Lowe & G. S. A. Ranking [_Munt._]; H. E. Lloyd [_Travels_]; G. du Laurens [_Voyages_]; C. E. Markham [_Embassy_]; R. Marvin [_Ride_]; W. Ouseley [_Or. Geo._]; F. Pélis de la Croix, _elder & younger_ [_Histoire_]; G. S. A. Ranking [see _Lowe; and `Arūz_]; H. G. Raverty [_T̤ab.-i-n._]; M. Reinaud [_Geo._]; G. Sale [_Qorān_]; B. R. Sanguinetti & T. Lee [_Travels_]; H. Sastri [_Rama._]; C. Stewart [_Taẕ._]; A. Vambéry [_Shai.-n._]; Warner [_Shāh-n._]; E. H. Whinfield [_Mas. and `Umar_]. Transliteration 2. Transmigration 518. _Travels in Bukhara_, Sir Alex. Barnes—[_see nn. on pp. named_], _nuzla_, a Panj-āb disease 446; water-fall fishing 227; " _in Europe and Asia_, Peter Mundy (_ed. Sir R. Temple_)—_baoli_ (a well) 533; Gūālīār 605. " _in India_, Pietro della Vallé—the morning-draught 395. " _of Ibn Batūta_ (_trs. Sanguinetti & Lee_)—Samarkand the Protected City 75, Add. N.P. 75; Kajwarra 590; Raḥīm-dād 693; 704. " _in Kashmir_, G. T. Vigne—_yāk_ and _kosh-gau_ App. M, xlv-vii. " _in Panj-āb_ (_etc._), Mohan Lall—Herāt 305-6; Qandahār Insc. App. J; Bābur's burial-place 710. " _of the Russian Mission_, G. Timkovsky [_trs. H. E. Lloyd_] fruit as food 3. " _on the Upper and Lower Amoor_, T. W. Atkinson—_marāl_ 8. _Tribes and Castes of the N. W. P. and Oude_, W. Crooke—Jats 454; Nuḥānī (or Luhānī) 455; Jaghat (serpent) 456; Tānk 481. Tribes and other groups:— +Afghān+:—`Abdu'r-raḥmān 403; Afrīdī 411-2; Aūghān 217-20; Aūrūq-zāī 526; Bīlūt 248; Bīrkī 207;