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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

Dilah-zāk 231, 367-94, 412-3; Dilah-zāk Ya`qūb-khail 394; Gagīānī 251; Ghiljī 323-31; `Isa-khail 233; Jasawāl _var._ Jaswān 462; Jalwānī _see_ Index I; Khattak 439; Khirilchī 208-20-49-413; Khiẓr-khail 413; Khūgīānī 220; Kīwī 233; Kūrānī, Kārānī, Kararānī 233, 477; Landar 220; Lūdī 481, Index I; Lūdī _khaṣa-khail_ _i.e._ Sahū-khail 465; Lūdī Sarang-khānī 540, 654; Luḥānī _see_ Nuḥanī; Mahmand 221, 323-31-45; Muḥammad-zāī 376 (_where read as here_); Nīā-zāī 233; Nuḥānī 235 (_cf. 455 n. 3_), Index I; Pānī 540; Pashāī(?) 207; Samū-khail (Khīrīlchī?) 412; Sūr 233; Tarkalānī 242, 424; Tūrī 220; Wazīrī 413; Yūsuf-zāī 231, 371-3-5-6, 400-10-19; —Afghāns of Bhīra 399, Ghazni 218, Sind riverain 218-36, Kābul 207-21; —Afghān thieves 208, 341; Afghān warrings in Hind 426, and power 480-1; serving Bābur 522; bad-mannered 451;— +Aūz-beg+ ("_Ūzbeg_"):—2, 37, 135, 622, Index I; Aūz-beg Qāzzāq ("_Cossack_") 23; Aūz-beg Mankfīt 195;— +Chaghatāī+ (_i.e._ Chaghatāī Khān's tribal appanage):—extinct but for their Khāns in 1547 (953 AH.) _Tār. Rash._ trs. 149; near Herī 320, 689; its Kohbur clan 55; high families in, Sighal 66, 72, Nawā'ī's (_Index I_); distinguished from Mughūls 320, 351, Turks 340;— +Mughūls of the Horde+:—105-92; _tūmans_ (_groups of 10,000_):—Bārīn 19, 473; Begchīk 155; Chīrās 158; Sāghārīchī 20; _sub-divisions_ (?):—Bīshāghī (_var._) 473; Darbān 60; Itārajī 161, 415; Jalair 91; Kūnchī 20; Qālmāq 23; Manghīt 101[2965]; —Mughūl devastation 2, 98, 172, 362; faithlessness 105, 140 _etc._; conduct on the Chīr 17, 31-4; the Horde divided 19; its dislike for cultivated lands 12; its _āīmāqs_ in open land 221-54-55; return from enforced migration 20, 350-1;— +Turk+:—Afshār 354; Aūīghūr (_Awīghūr_, _Uīghūr_) 40, 118; its Ishrit clan 40, 65; Barlās 51, 429, Index I; Barlās Dūldāī 25, 37; Daryā-khānī 231, 589; Istiljū 353; Khilij 482; Qīpchāq 19, 49; —Turks of Andijān 4, Kabul-lowlands 207-15-21; early Turk rulers of Kābul 200; contrasted with Sārts 149; —Uses of the name, "Mughūl and Turk" 158, 402, "Chaghatāī and Turk" 340; "Turk and Tīmūrid" one 380-2-4-8-9; probable statement of B.'s descent 320; his claim to rule in Hind, based on Turk descent 380-2-4, 476-9; Turk warning to Bīāna 529;— +Turkmān+:—White-sheep Horde 49 (_where read White for "Black"_); —its Bahārlū clan 49; its Balāl 911 and Bayandar 279; —Black-sheep Horde 10; Qajar 666; Turkmāns serve Bābur 47, 279, 361; —features 111; —Hazāras (_infra_); Tūrūq-shār 101;— +Various+:—`Arab 207, 522, 631; Arlāt (Turk?) 265; Ashpārī 101; Asiqānchī [_var._ Saqānchī] 197; Balūchī 383, 459, 522; Bengali (race) 482; Būgīāl 452; Kāfir 212-3, 342-72, 421; Kakar (_var._) 387-9; Kas 484; Kīb (or Kītib) 393; Meos 577; Farsī (Persian, race) 7, 207, 507-55; Ghiyās-wāl (or -dāl) 393; Gūjūr 250, 379-87, 454; Habshi 483; Janjuha-khail and Jūd-khail 379-80-87; Jats 250, 387, 454; Jīgrāk (_var._) 55, 101; Nīkdīrī (_var._) 196-7, 200-1-7, 275, 326, 430 (_cf. E. & D. iv, 304, Tukdari_) Nīl-ābī 379 (_see Index II_); Parājī 207;— Rājpūt;— Chūhān 573, Tānk sept 481;— Tājik 6, 207, 420, 535;— +Hazāra+ (1000):—Gadāī or Kīdī 250, Qārlūq 391-3, 403; Rustāq [or Rusta] 196; Sl. Mas`ūdī 221-8, 525; Turkmān 27, 214-51, 311 to 313; +Hazāras+:—w. of Kābul 200-7-22, 430; e. of the Sind 457, 522; in the open country of Ghazni 218, Kābul 221, Heri-rūd valley 308; refuge taken amongst 95; traversed 254. Tribute—Jīgrāk 55, Ghazni 240, Yūsuf-zāī 375, Bhīra 384, Kakar 391, Bajaur and Sawād 400, Balkh 402; Nijr-aū 421; Koh-i-jūd 379. _Tuḥfa-i-sāmī_ (_a Turkī anthology_), Sām M. _Ṣafawi_—Marwārīd 278; syphilis 279; a jeer 648. The twelve Imāms, 258, 354. Turkī tongue, Preface xxvii, Cap. iv. _Turkistan_, Alex. Petzhold—Ṣārts 6. " E. Schuyler—[_see nn. on pp. named_], +Farghāna+:—extent of 2, various 5, 6, 8; (wind) 9; (out-of-doors life) 29; _kūk-būrā_ (a game) 39; Old Akhsī App. A; Ṣārts 6;— +Samarkand+:—67, 74-5-7, 83, (Aūrgūt) 68; Kesh 83; +Various+:—Sarā-tāq pass 129; Lake Iskandar _ib._ Hazrat Turkistan (shrine) 356; a distance 9; a lizard 501;— Bābur's Moscow Embassy App. Q, lxiii; Gregorief's _Russian Policy_, (_App. iv trs._) Preface, liii. " Franz v. Schwarz—autumn fever 4; running-waters 4, recipe for _ma`jūn_ 16; _yīghāch_ (measure) 4; a Kīrghis measure 196; loess constructions 30; _charkh_ (a hunting bird) 224; Mogol-tau 8; duties of the Lord of the Gate 24; _kūk būrā_, _baiga_ 39; Greek descent 22; various App. A, v. _Tūzūk-i-jahāngīrī_, Jahāngīr Pādshāh (_trs. Rogers and Beveridge_)—Bugials 452; Daulat Khān _Lūdī_ 461; measures 189; birds 497; _kīshmīsh_ 515; couplet 670; metrical amusement App. Q, lxvi-vii; its titles for Bābur varied _ib._ lxi; Jahāngīr's additions to the B.N. App. D, xiii, Preface xlv (No. viii), lii; his pilgrimage to B.'s burial-garden App. V, lxxx; his stay in B.'s Garden _ib._ +Noticeable words+:— _tabalghū_, a tree 11; _tāsh-chantāī_, outside bag (?) 160; _ṯāsh_, stone confused with _tāsh_, outer 3, 43, 78, 80, 160; _ṯaūrī_, complete, enclosed 109, 280, 501 (_where this better describes the koel's song_); _tipūchāq_ a horse and its points 38; _tīr-gīẓ_, arrow 34; _tīrik_ 36, 362; P. _tū_, turn of a hill 205-8 _etc._; _tūlūk_ vegetable food, other than grain 114; _tūn-yārīm_, half-dark 100; _tūrā_ (ordinances) 38; _tūrā_ (army mantelets) 108-13-55, 368, 469, 593; _tūmān_, 10,000, a district command 17; _tūq-bāī_, one using a standard 313; _tūlghuma s.n._ Military; _tusqāwal_ 224, 314; _tūghāī_ and _tuqāī_ 643. _`Umar Khayyām's Quatrains_ (_trs. E. H. Whinfield_)—a couplet Babur's words recall 203. _Upper Basin of the Kābul-river_, Sir C. Markham (_PRGS. 1879_)—Hindu-kush passes 204, maps of Koh-i-baba 216. Veliaminof-Zernof, editor of the _Sharaf-nāma_ 635 and _Abūshqa_ App. Q, lxiii. _Vergleichunge-Tabellen des Muh. and Christlichen Zeitrechnung_, F. Wüstenfeld—dates of 935 AH. 629, App. S. Verses:—of untraced authorship 332, 316 and 670; verse-making 15, 22, 38-9, 46, 54, 111, 136-7, 154; Bābur's opinion of Nawā'ī's Turkī verse 271; Shaibanī's verses made public 329; composition on a model 448;— Metrical amusements 585-6, App. Q, lxv-vi. Vikramāditya Era 79 (where _read_ began). Virgil—citron-juice as an antidote 511; Scorpio and Libra 623. _Visit to Ghuzni_ (_etc._), G. T. Vigne—[_see nn. on pp. named_], boundary between Afghāns and Khurāsān 200; Kābul-river _ib._; `Uqābain 201; rhubarb 203; ṣāḥibī-grapes 203; Dūr-nāma 215; Running-sands 215; Pāmghān villages 216; _arghwān_ 217;— various:—218-9, 224, 227; "Tānk" for Tāq 233; routes 208, 235; Bīlah on the Indus 237; _see_ App. E, xxiii. _Visit to Kafiristan_, W. W. Macnair (_PRGS. 1884_)—Nīng-nahār App. E, xxiii. _Voyage dans le Turkistan_, Fedtschenko (_trs. G. du Laurens_)—Sang-aina, Mirror-stone, 7. " _dans l'Asie septentrionale_, P. S. Pallas—_āq kīyīk, argālī_ (Ovis poli) 6. " _des Pélerins Bouddhistes_, S. A. Julien—Nanganahāra App. E, xviii. _Voyages en Perse et autres lieux d'Orient_, Jean Chardin—lovers'-marks 16; square seal 28; Sīkīz-yīldūz, Eight-stars 139; _kipkī_ "casbeké" (a coin) 296; epistolary etiquette 332. _Wāqi`-nāma-i-pādshāhī_ (Record of Royal Acts), `Abdu'l-wahhāb _akhund_ of Ghajdāvān (1709)—(_found mentioned as the Bābur-nāma, the "Bukhārā Bābur-nāma" and the "Bukhārā Compilation"_)—for its seeming author's colophon JRAS. 1900, p. 474 and Preface lvii; its divergence from the true text Preface xxxix, its element of true text (Kāmrān's tattered Codex) li; its dual purpose xxxix, lxii; its character xl; its stop-gaps xlv; its use by Leyden xlviii; +Described+ (_as it is in Kehr's transcript_):—Preface, Cap. III, Parts I and III; its history liii, author and colophon lvii, (_cf._ JRAS. 1900, p. 474); its identity confused with Bābur's true text Preface, Cap. III, Part III; ITS DESCENDANTS AND OFFTAKES Table lvii;— (_a_) Petrograd F. O. Codex (_an indirect copy_ (?)), described by purchaser as _Bābur-nāma_, Preface xliii-iv; (_b_) Pet. F. O. School of Oriental Languages Codex, entitled _Bābur-nāma_, scribe G. J. Kehr—referred to _in loco_:—diction of the Farghāna Section 1, of the Kābul Sect. 187, of the Hindūstān Sect. 445; its Persified character exemplified 147, 150, 167, and Add. Note, 177, (_cf. JRAS. 1908, pp. 76, 88_); its Latin version App. J, xxxv, Preface liv;— Other references 9, 18, 19, 44-8, 88, 164, 169; +Full contents+:—Preface lii; their reconstruction by Ilminski lii-iv, (_cf. his own Preface JRAS. 1900 and a separate form in B.M., I.O., R.A.S. Libraries, etc._); the "Fragments" Preface xlv (No. viii), lii, (_in loco_) 438, 549, (_a discussion_) 574, 630, 640 (_cf._ JRAS. 1900-6-8); (_c_) The "_Bābur-nāma_" Imprint (_constructed and edited by_) N. I. Ilminski—referred to _in loco_, App. D, 227-59, 336, 420, App. I, xxxii; modelled on the L. and E. _Memoirs of Baber_ 326, 337, App. T, lxxiv, Preface lii (_cf. Ilminski's Preface ref. supra_), 574; Preface:—its Kasan publication li; its deviation from its sole basis (_Kehr's Codex_) lii; Ilminski's work and some results lii, with n. 1 mid-page, liv; his doubts and achievement of a Turki reading book _see_ hi s own Preface ref. _supra_; (_d_) _Mémoires de Bāber_, (_French trs. of Ilminski's Bābur-nāma_) A. Pavet de Courteille—referred to _in loco_, 215, 227, 346, 347, 407, 446, 478, 489, 559, 632, App. T, lxxviii, App. M, xlv;— the _Mubīn_ not recognized 449, 630; an illness 619; mistakenly controverted 468; surmised ground on which it accepted the "Rescue Passage" App. D, xiv; its help in considering Shaikh Zain's compositions 553, 559;—