The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
questioned readings 223-5, 327-33-69, 421 (_chīūrtīka_), 462-70,
534, 617-19-38-40-47;
a surmise discussed 574;—
reviewed by Defrémery 562;
its title Preface xxxiii, translation li, source liv, diction
lix.
Water—water-thief 109,
-road 595;
dug for 234;
under-ground courses of 417.
Wedding-gifts—43, 400.
Wednesday (_Chār-shaṃba_)—coincidences of the day 71.
Wells—chambered (_wāīn_, _baoli_) 532-3;
dug 548, 552;
purified when new 634.
White cloth—traded 202;
booty 233-4-5-7-8.
Whiteway, Mr. R. S.—his help App. B, vii.
Wilāyat = Kābul 414.
_With the Kuram Field-Force_, J. A. S. Colquhoun—a route 231.
Wine (_i.e. any fermented liquor_)—_`arāq_ (spirit) 385-6-7-8,
453-61-76;
mahuwa-flower 505;
beer 423;
cider (_chagīr_) 83, Add. Note, P. 83;
wines of Bukhārā 83,
Herī 265,
Kābul:—Ālā-sāī 221,
Dara-i-nūr 210, 410, App. G;
Ghazni 461,
Kābul-_tumān_ 203,
Nijr-aū 213;—
Kāfiristan 211-12, 372;—
+rules in use+:—drinking-days 33-4, 111, 447;
one liquor only 386;
no-pressure on a non-drinker 406-10;
+wine-parties+:—Bābur protests against excess 398;
excludes drunkards 419,
is disgusted by drunken uproar 386
and by beer-intoxication 423;
gives his followers freedom to do as Herātīs did 304;
givers of "wines", Khw. Kalān 371-5, 461,
Shāh Beg 400,
the Bāī-qarā Mirzas 299, 302,
Khw. Muḥ. `Alī 411 (a business-party), 413;—
+Bābur's breaches of Law+ not committed till _cir._ his 28th year
83, 355;
resisted temptation in Herāt 299, _etc._—
his parties associated with beauty of scene, _e.g._ autumnal
414-16-18;
in his gardens 412, 406 and 420;
under a plane-tree 405,
at Istālīf 406,
near an illuminated camp 450;
after and before long marches (_frequent_); mention made of
(925 AH.) 375-85-88, 408-10-14-15-16-17-19;
(926 AH.) 420-1-2-3-4;
(932 AH.) 447, 450-53-61;
(933 AH.) 537;—
drinks a few cups to console 418,
out of courtesy in a charmless place 424;
"morning" 395-8, 415-20-22;
gallops when not sober 388-98;—
+Other Law-breakers+ Preface xxix, 16, 33-4, 45, 70, 134, 259-68-73,
(woman) 36, 417;
Herātīs 259,
Ḥiṣāris 42,
Pich-Kāfirs 22;—
+Parties accompanied+ by improvisation 26,
dancing 299, music (_usually_);
(_for return to obedience see Law and Index I s.n. Bābur_).
Wordsworth's "undying fish" recalled 305.
Workmen—Tīmūr's 77, 520;
Bābur's 520, 634.
Wray, Mr. Cecil and Mr. Leonard—their help 495, 502.
Yajuj and Majuj (_Gog and Magog_) 560.
Yāqūt _see_ Dictionary of Towns.
+Noticeable words+:—
_Yada-tāsh_, jade-stone _see_ Magic;
_yāghrūnchī_, divination from sheep's-blades 233;
_yīghāch_, tree, wood 11, 81;
_yīghāch_ _see_ Measures;
_yīgīt_, a brave 16, 53, 70, App. H, xxvii;
_yīlāq_, alp see _i.a._ Yār- and Būrka-;
_yīnka-chīcha_, maternal-uncle's mother-in-law (?);
_yīnkalīk_, levirate 23, 267, 306, 616;
_yūkūnmāk_, to bend the knee 301;
_yūsūnlūq_, hereditary 23.
_Z̤afar-nāma_ (Book of Victory _i.e._ Tīmūr's) Maulana Sharafu'd-dīn
`Ali _Yazdī_—[_see nn. on pp. named_], places 10, 74-8, 83-4;
persons 39, 272;
meaning of Sawālak 485;
Tīmūr's capture of Qarshī 134;
his burial at a saint's feet 266;
his workmen 77, 520;
partly translated in _Histoire de Tīmūr Beg q.v._;
the book and its main basis, the _Malfūzāt-i-tīmūrī_ Preface xxix,
xxx,
its author xxxiii.
Zainu'd-dīn _Khawāfī_ (Shaikh Zain)'s writings—
(1) _T̤abaqāt-i-bāburī q.v._;
(2) _Mubīn_, a Commentary on Bābur's _Mubīn_ 438;
(3) _Farmān_ announcing Bābur's renouncement of wine and remission
of _ṯamghā_-tax 553;
(4) _Fatḥ-nāma_ of the victory at Kānwa 559 to 574;
Bābur's reason for inserting it (4) in his book 559;
the sole Letter of victory so preserved 561;
grounds against supposing Bābur wrote a plain Turkī account of the
battle 574.
OMISSIONS FROM TRANSLATION AND FOOTNOTES.
p. 7 l.1 "turbulent" _add_ They are notorious in Mawara'u'n-nahr for
their bullyings.
p. 27 l.5 "(1504)" _add_ when, after taking Khusrau Shah, we besieged
Muqim in Kabul.
p. 31 l.1 "paid" _add_ no (attention).
p. 43 l.9 _enter_ f. 24_b_.
_ib._ l.8 fr. ft. "Taghai" _add_ and Auzun Hasan.
p. 45 Sec. c, l.2 "good" _add_ he never neglected the Prayers.
p. 48 l.16 "grandmother" _add_ Khan-zada Begim.
p. 52 l.4 fr. ft. "childhood" _add_ and had attained the rank of Beg.
p. 88 l.9 Hasan _add_ and Sl. Ahmad Tambal.
p. 92 l.8 "on" _add_ to Sang-zar.
p. 95 l.12 "service" _add_ did not stay in Khurasan but.
p. 128 l.18 "two" _add_ young (sons).
p. 131 l.12 "Jan-wafa" _add_ Mirza.
p. 134 l.7 fr. ft. "that" _add_ night that.
_ib._ l.3 fr. ft. "was" _add_ in my 19th (lunar) year.
p. 136 l.5 "was" _add_ in my 19th (lunar) year.
p. 139 l.11 fr. ft. _read_ Jani Beg Sultan.
p. 141 l.10 "Khusrau Shah" _add_ my highly-favoured beg Qambar-i-ali
_the Skinner Mughul_, not acting at such a time as this according
to the favour he had received, came and took his wife from
Samarkand; he too went to Khusrau Shah.
p. 143 l.16 "that" _add_ near Shutur-gardan.
p. 152 l.12 fr. ft. "dead" _add_ A few days later we went back
to Dikh-kat.
p. 164 Sec. d, l.6 fr. ft. "for" _add_ Sairam.
p.201 l.12 _read_ Kabul-fort.
p. 205 l.10 fr. ft. _read_ "are closed for" 4 or 5 months in winter.
After crossing Shibr-tu people go on through Ab-dara. In the heats,
when the waters come down in flood, these roads have the same rule
as in winter ("because" _etc._).
p. 217 l.11 "Sih-yaran" _add_ It became a very good-halting-place.
I had a vineyard planted on the hill above the seat.
p. 221 Sec. h, at the beginning _insert_ The mountains to the eastward
of the cultivated land of Kabul are of two kinds as also are those
to its westward ("Where the mountains" _etc._).
p. 230 last line "men" _add_ Khusrau _Gagiani_.
p. 247 l.1 "Qush-nadir" _add_ meadow.
p. 308 l.14 "ground" _add_ Moreover it snowed incessantly and after
leaving Chiragh-dan, not only was there very deep snow but the road
was unknown.
p. 391 March 18th "darogha-ships" _add_ Sangur Khan Qarluq and
Mirza-i-malui Qarluq came leading 30 or 40 men of the Qarluq elders,
made offering of a horse in mail, and waited on me. Came also the
army of the Dilah-zak Afghāns.
p. 393 March 25th l.2 "out" _add_ from the river's bank.
p. 454 l.5 "boat" _add_ There was a party; some drinking _`araq_, some
beer. After leaving the boat at the Bed-time Prayer, there was more
drinking in the _khirgah_ (tent). For the good of the horses, we
gave them a day's breathing on the bank of this water.
p. 468 l.3 "sent" _add_ Yunas-i-'ali and Ahmadi and ("`Abdu'l-lah").
p. 484 l.1 "Rao" _add_ with four or five thousand Pagans.
p. 498 (_s.n._ florican), "colour" _add_ The flesh of the florican is
very delicate. As the _kharchal_ (Indian buzzard) resembles the
_tughdaq_ (great buzzard) so the _charz_ (florican) resembles the
_tughdiri_.
_ib._ (_s.n._ sand-grouse) "Tramontana" _add_ the blackness of its
breast is less deep, its cry also is sharper.
p. 500 after l. 11 "eagle" _add_ (new para.) Another is the buzzard
(T. _sar_); its tail and back are red.
p. 506 (_s.n._ _kamrak_) "long" _add_ It has no stone.
p. 507 n. 3 "name" _add_ also; "plantain" _add_ (banana).
p. 510 l. 5 see App. O, p. liv for _addendum_.
p. 529 l. 4 fr.ft. "Dulpur" _add_ Gualiar.
p. 595 l. 19 "other" read 2 or 3 (places); the Pagans in the _du-tahi_
began to run away; "the _du-tahi_ was taken."
p. 603 l. 7 fr.ft. "(366_b_)" _add_ and between Ghazipur and Banaras
(p. 502).
p. 674 l. 2 "river" _add_ in his mail.
p. 678 l. 2 "amirs" _add_ Sultan.
p. 679 l. 8 fr.ft. "given" _add_ It was settled that a son of each of
them should be always in waiting in Agra; l. 7 fr.ft. "Araish"
_add_ and two others; l. 2 fr.ft. "Saru" _add_ towards Oude.
p. 689 l. 2 fr.ft. "laks" _add_ and a head-to-foot (dress).
App. Q l. 1 "interpret" add those of.
CORRIGENDA.
_To ensure notice many of these are entered in the Indices._
Pages
6 l.4 "meadow" _read_ plain (_maidan_).
11 n.4, "siyar" unaccented; (H.S.) ii _read_ iii n.n. pp. 18, 38, 48,
244.
12 n.4 l.3 "attack in" _read_ attacking.
14 l.3 "and" _read_ who.
16 l.10 n. ref. "3" _tr. to_ "amorous".
24 n.1 "932" _read_ 923.
27 para. 2 _read_ "Baba `Ali Beg's Baba-quli".
28 l.8 "leaders" _read_ Mughul mirzadas.
29 n.6 l.5 "then" _read_ his.
37 l.8 "916" _read_ 917; and tr. nn. 2 and 3.
38 l.9 "favour" _run on_ to Ahmad.
44 l.9 55 l.12 _delete_ "Sayyid".
46 l.12 _read_ Chikman.
49 l.3 "Black" _read_ White.
51 l.12 fr. ft. "Badakhshan" _read_ Hisar.
55 "f. 34" _read_ f. 32_b_.
57 l.1, enter f. 33 and _move_ "f. 33_b_" to 58 l.2.
61 l.4 "Beg" _read_ Baba-quli Beg.
68 l.10 fr. ft. _tr._ n. ref. 4 to "Aurgut".
69 n.2, read _aunutung_; and _tr._ _nakunid_ and _bakunid_.
79 l.5 tr. n. ref. 3 to _qibla_; in author's n. _read_ Batalmius;
and in n.4 _read_ _Ayin_.
85 l.9 _read_ 851 A.H.-1447 A.D.; l.3 fr. ft. _move_ "Jumada I, 22,
855 A.H." to p.86 l.1, after "years".
94 l.6 "Chirik" _read_ Char-yak.
95 l.2 fr. ft. "Aubaj" _read_ Char-jui.
96 last line "Qasim" _read_ Kamal (or Kahal).
109 l.16 "qasim" _read_ qadus.
_ib._ n.5 l.3 _read_ grand "father".
117 n.2 "909" _read_ 908.
122 n.4 "_bulghar_" _read_ _buljar_.
129 l.14 "_daban_" _read_ _kutal_.
131 ll.3-4 fr. ft. _read_ Khan-quli and Karim-dad.
134 l.3 fr. ft. and 136 l.5 _read_ in my 19th (lunar) year.
144 para. 3 "rain" _read_ grain.
148 n.2 "f. 18" _read_ f. 118.
149 l.17 _read_ Khanim.
154 n.3 "f. 183_b_" _read_ f. 103_b_ and for f. 264_b_ _read_ f. 264.
168 Sect. heading "Kasan" _read_ Karnan.
175 l.11 _read_ Mirza-quli.
183 last line "Kulja" _read_ Khuldja.
192 l.3 _read_ Taliqan.
194 l.12 _read_ Quhlugha.
_ib._ n.3 _read_ Bai-sunghar.
204 l.16 _read_ Curriers'.
205 l.5 _read_ Sir; l.13 _read_ Wa(lian); l.14 _read_ Qibchaq.
205 l.10 fr. ft. "three or four" _read_ four or five (cf. omissions
p. 205).
211 para. 3, end, "920" _read_ 924.
212 n.2 l.2 _read_ _chiqmaq_.
213 n.5 "_parwan_" _read_ _parran_; and nn.5, 6, 7 _read_ Blanford.
244 ll.8 and 25 "page" _read_ preferably, brave; l.19 _read_
gallopers.
273 n.2 _read_ grand-"daughter".
282 n.3 l.2 "345" _read_ 348-9.
289 l.5 "wonderful" _read_ metaphorist.
342 mid-page _read_ Pur-amin.
344 last line "Appendix" _read_ Trs.' note 711.
351 l.15 "Akhsi" _read_ Archian.
387 n.3 _delete_ sentence 2.
410 last line "_khuntul_" _read_ _hunzal_.
414 l.2 "18th" _read_ 13th; and l.2 fr. ft. "purslain" _read_ poplar.
438 l.15 "son" _read_ grandson.
447 n.3 para. 2 l.1 "month" _read_ week.