The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Index I. Personal

Abā-bikr Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Abū-sa‘īd and a Badakhshī begīm—particulars 22, 26; his attack on Ḥiṣār 51; defeated by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā and his death (884) 260; his Bāī-qarā marriage 266; a Badakhshī connection 51; [♰884 AH.-1479 AD.].

Abā-bikr Mīrzā Dūghlāt Kāshgharī, son of Sāniz and a Chīrās (var. Jarās) begīm—invades Farghāna (899) 32; his annexations in Badakhshān 695; his Mīrānshāhī wife 48; [♰920 AH.-1514 AD.].

‘Abbās, a slave—murderer of Aūlūgh (Ūlūgh) Beg Shāh-rukhī (853) 85.

‘Abbās Sult̤ān Aūzbeg—marries Gul-chihra Mīrān-shāhi, Bābur’s daughter (954) 713.

‘Abdu’l-‘alī Tarkhān Arghūn Chīngīz-Khānid—particulars 38, 39; [♰cir. 899 AH.-1494 AD.].

‘Abdu’l-‘azīz mīr-akhẉur—ordered to catch pheasants (925) 404; ☛2861 posted in Lāhor (930) 442; sent into Milwat (932) 460; on service 465-6, 471, 530; the reserve at Pānīpat 472-3; reinforces the right 473; surprised and defeated by Sangā (933) 549, 550; in the left wing at Kānwā 567, 570; pursues Sangā 576; ordered against Balūchīs (935) 638; writes from Lāhor about the journey of Bābur’s family 659, 660; arrested 688; ☛ sequel to his sedition not given in the Akbar-nāma 692; ☛ reference to his sedition 698.

‘Abdu’l-‘azīz Mīrzā Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Aūlūgh Beg—his Chaghatāī wife 19-20.

‘Abdu’l-bāqī—surrenders Qandahār to Bābur (928) 436, 437.

‘Abdu’l-bāqī Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of ‘Us̤mān—particulars 280; referred to 266 n. 6; goes to Herī (908) 336; his wife Sult̤ānīm Bāī-qarā 265 n. 5, 280.

‘Abdu’l-ghaffār tawāchī—conveys military orders (935) 638.

Mīr ‘Abdu’l-ghafūr Lārī, of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s Court—particulars 284, 285; [♰912 AH.-1506-7 AD.].

Khwāja ‘Abdu’l-ḥaqq, brother of Khwāja Makhdūmī Nūrā—waited upon by Bābur (935) 641, 686; has leave to stay in Āgra 641.

‘Abdu’l-karīm Ushrit (var.) Aūīghūr2862 (var.)—serving Aḥmad Mīrān-shāhī 40; captured by an Aūzbeg (902) 65.

‘Abdu’l-khalīq Beg Isfarāyini—particulars 273-4 (where read Isfarāyinī for “Isfārayinī”).

Shaikh ‘Abdu’l-lāh aīshīk-āghā—with Jahāngīr (899) 32; leaves Bābur for home (902) 191.

Sayyid ‘Abdu’l-lāh Andikhūdī—his Bāī-qarā wife Bairām-sult̤ān and their son Barka q.v.

Khwāja ‘Abdu’l-lāh Anṣārī—his tomb visited by Bābur (912) 305; a surmised attendant on it 145 n. 1; [♰, 481 AH.-1088 AD.].

Shaikh ‘Abdu’l-lāh bakāwal—with the Bāī-qarā families (913) 328.

Shaikh ‘Abdu’l-lāh Barlās—particulars 51; excites the Tarkhān rebellion (901) 61-2; his daughter a cause of attempt on Samarkand 64; with his son-in-law Mas‘ūd Mīrān-shāhī (903) 93.

Khwāja ‘Abdu’l-lāh Khwājagān Khwāja—fifth son of ‘Ubaidu’l-lāh Aḥrārī—his son ‘Abdu’sh-shahīd, q.v.

Mullā ‘Abdu’l-lāh kitābdār—one of eleven left with Bābur (913) 337; given the third of a potent confection (925) 373; a drunken lapse 398; induced by Bābur to restrict his drinking 399; at a party where Bābur, abstaining, watches the drinkers 400-1; rebuked for an offending verse 416; joins Bābur in an autumn garden 418; on service (932) 468, 530; in the right centre at Pānīpat (932) 472, 473, and at Kānwa (933) 565, 569; sent to take possession of Āgra 475; is sarcastic 581; in attendance on Aūzbeg envoys (935) 631; sent to take charge of Saṃbhal (935) 675, 687; conveys orders 676; sends news of Bīban and Bāyazīd 679; arrives in Āgra, 687.

Khwāja ‘Abdu’l-lāh Marwārīd—particulars 278-9; preeminent on the dulcimer 291; [♰922 AH.-1516 AD.].

‘Abdu’l-lāh Mīrzā Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—succeeds his father, Ibrāhīm, in Shīrāz (838) 20, and his cousin ‘Abdu’l-lat̤īf in Transoxiana (854) 85-6; Yūnas Khān his retainer q.v.; [♰ Jumāda I. 22, 855 AH.-1450 AD.].2863

Khwāja ‘Abdu’l-lāh Qāẓī, see Khwāja Maulānā-i-qāẓī.

‘Abdu’l-lāh Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-Shaibān—particulars 267; serving Bābur in Hindūstān (after 933?) 267.

‘Abdu’l-lat̤īf bakhshī—serving Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (901) 57; acts for Bābur from Qūndūz (932-3) 546.

‘Abdu’l-lat̤īf Mīrzā Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—murders and succeeds his father Aūlūgh Beg (853) 15; a couplet on his parricide 852864; [♰ Rabī‘ l.26, 854 AH.-1450 AD.2865].

‘Abdu’l-lat̤īf Sult̤ān Aūzbeg, Shaibānī Chīngīz-khānid, son of Ḥamza— Bābur’s half-sister Yādgār (æt. cir. 8) his share of spoil (908) 18.

Mullā ‘Abdu’l-malūk Khwāstī (var. malik)—at Bajaur (925) 368; sent ahead into Bhīra 381, and to Kābul 415; returns from an embassy to ‘Iraq (932) 446 (here qūrchī); sent again (935) 642; on service (933) 576, 582.

‘Abdu’l-minān, son of Mullā Ḥaidar—holding Bīsh-kīnt (907) 151.

Amīr ‘Abdu’l-qadūs Beg Dūghlāt—slays Jamāl Khar Arghūn (877) 35; conveys wedding gifts to Bābur and arouses suspicion (900) 43; [for his death see T.R. trs. pp. 94, 103].

‘Abdu’l-qadūs Beg Kohbur Chaghatāī—with Bābur at Māḏū (Māẕū) (905) 109 (where for “QĀSIM” read qadūs); one of the eight fugitives from Akhsī (908) 177.

Mīrak ‘Abdu’r-raḥīm Ṣadr—his servant Badru’d-dīn q.v.

‘Abdu’r-raḥīm shaghāwal—sent to speak the Bhīra people fair for Bābur (925) 381; given charge of Ibrāhīm Lūdī’s mother (933) 543; fetches a hostage to Court 578; who escapes 581.

Maulānā ‘Abdu’r-raḥīm Turkistānī—fleeces Khwānd-amīr 328.

Mulla ‘Abdu’r-raḥmān Ghaznawī—particulars 218; [♰921 AH.-1515 AD.].

Maulānā ‘Abdu’r-raḥmān Jāmī—his letters imitated by Nawā’ī 271; his sarcasm on Shaikhīm’s Verse 277; his tomb visited by Bābur (912) 285, 305; Bābur’s reverential mention of him 283, 286, his example followed by production of the Wālidiyyah-risāla (935) 620; his birth-place 623 n. 8; his disciple ‘Abdu’l-ghafūr 284; [898 AH.-1492 AD.].

‘Abdu’r-raḥmān Khān Barak-zāī Afghān, Amīr of Afghānistān—mentioned in connection with Jāmī’s tomb 305 n. 6; [♰1319 AH.-1901 AD.].

‘Abdu’r-razzāq Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Aūlūgh Beg Kābulī—loses Kābul (910) 195, 365; out with Bābur 234; surmised part-vendor of Bābur’s mother’s burial-ground 246 n. 2; in Herāt (912) 298; escapes Shaibānī and joins Bābur (913) 331; in the left wing at Qandahār 334; his loot 337-8; deserts Qalāt in fear of Shaibānī 340; left in charge of Kābul ib.; given Nīngnahār 344; rebels (914) 345; his position stated 345 n. 6; [♰915 AH.-1509 AD.?].

Khwāja ‘Abdu’sh-shahīd, son of Aḥrārī’s fifth son Khwājagān-khwāja (‘Abdu’l-lāh)—placed on Bābur’s right-hand (935) 631; gifts made to him 632; invited to a ma‘jūn-party 653; particulars 653 n. 4; ☛ a likely recipient of the Mubīn 438, 631 n. 3; [♰982 AH.-1574 AD.].

‘Abdu’sh-shukūr Mughūl, son of Qaṃbar-i-‘alī Silākh—serving Jahāngīr Mīrān-shāhī (after 910) 192; in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 566.

‘Abdu’l-wahhāb Mughūl—given Shaikh Pūrān to loot (913) 328.

‘Abdu’l-wahhāb shaghāwal, servant of ‘Umar-shaikh and Aḥmad Mīrān-shāhī—forwards news (899) 25; gives Khujand to Bābur 54; his son Mīr Mughūl q.v.

Abraha Yemenī, an Abyssinian Christian—his defeat (571 AD.) 563 n. 3.

Imām Abū Ḥanīfa—his followers’ respect for the Hidāyat 76; his ruling that peacock-meat is lawful food 493.

Khwāja Abū’l-barka Farāqī—criticizes Banā’ī’s verse (906) 137.

Shaikh Abū’l-fatḥ, servant of the Shāh-zāda of Mungīr—envoy from Bengal to Bābur (934, 935) 676; placed on Bābur’s right-hand (935) 631.

Abū’l-fatḥ Sa‘īd Khān, see Sa‘īd Khān Chaghatāī.

Abū’l-fatḥ Turkmān, son of ‘Umar—his joining Bābur from ‘Iraq 280; made military-collector of Dhūlpūr (933) 540; Bābur visits his hammām (935) 615.

Abū’l-faẓl, see Akbar-nāma.

Abū’l-ḥasan qūr-begī—in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334; does well (925) 404; his brother Muḥammad Ḥusain q.v.

Abū’l-ḥasan qūrchī—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335.

Abū’l-hāshim, servant of Sl. ‘Alī [T̤aghāī Begchīk]—overtakes Bābur with ill news (925) 412.

Abū’l-ma‘ālī Tīrmīẕī—☛ his burial-place has significance as to Mahdī Khwāja’s family 705; [♰971 AH.-1564 AD.].

Khwāja Abū’l-makāram—supports Bāī-sunghar Mīrān-shāhī (901) 62, (902) 65; acts for peace (903) 91; meets Bābur, both exiles (904) 99; at Bābur’s capture of Samarkand (906) 132, 141; leaves it with him 147 n. 2; speaks for him (908) 157-8; fails to recognize him 161; ☛ at Archīān 184; [♰908 AH.-1502 AD.].

Shaikh Abū’l-manṣūr Mātarīdī—his birthplace Samarkand 75, 76; [♰333 AH.-944 AD.].

Abū’l-muḥammad neza-bāz—in the tūlghuma of the left wing, at Pānīpat (932) 473; on service (933) 582, (934) 589, 598.

Abū’l-muḥammad Khujandī—his sextant 74 n. 4.

Abū’l-muḥsin Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Ḥusain and Lat̤īf—particulars 262 (where for “ḤUSAIN” read muḥsin), 269; serving his father (901) 58; defeats his brother Badī‘u’z-zamān (902) 69, 70; defeated by his father at Halwā-spring (904) 260; his men take Qarākūl from Aūzbegs (906) 135; co-operates against Shaibānī (912) 296; rides out to meet Bābur 297; they share a divan 298; presses him to winter in Herī 300; returns to his district (Merv) 301; his later action and death 329-30, 331; [♰913 AH.-1507 AD.].

Abū’l-muslim Kūkūldāsh—brings an Arghūn gift to Bābur (925) 401, 402.

Abū’l-qāsim Jalāīr—tells Bābur a parrot story. (935)2866 494.

Abū’l-qāsim—a musician (923) 387, 388 (here Qāsim only).

Abū’l-qāsim, Kohbur Chaghatāī, son of Ḥaidar-i-qāsim—on service with Bābur (902) 68, (906) 130, 131, 133; in the right wing at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 139; killed 141; [♰906 AH.-1501 AD.].

Shaikh Abū’l-wajd Fārighī, maternal-uncle of Zain Khawāfī—makes verse on the Kābul-river (932) 448; his chronogram on Al-amān’s birth (935) 621; [♰940 AH.-1533 AD.2867].

Shaikh Abū-sa‘īd Khān Dar-miyān2868—particulars 276.

Sult̤ān Abū-sa‘īd Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—his descent 14; asserts Tīmūrid supremacy over Chaghatāī Khāqāns (855) 20, 344, 352; takes Māwarā’u’n-nahr (855) 86; forms his Corps of Braves 28, 50; a single combat in his presence (857) 50; defeats Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (868) 259; a swift courier to him 25; joined by the Black-sheep Turkmāns (872) 49; orders the Hindūstān army mobilized 46; defeated and killed by the White-sheep Turkmāns (873) 25, 46, 49; appointments named 24, 37; his banishment of Nawā’ī 271; reserves a Chaghatāī wife for a son 21, 36; his Badakhshī wife and their son 22,2869 260; his Tarkhān Arghūn wife and their sons, 33, 45; his mistress Khadīja q.v.; his daughters Pāyanda-sult̤ān, Shahr-bānū, Rābi‘a-sult̤ān, Khadīja-sult̤ān, Fakhr-i-jahān, Apāq-sult̤ān, Āq Begīm q.v.; retainers named as his ‘Alī-dost Sāghārīchī, Muḥammad Barandūq, Aūrūs, and Ẕū’n-nūn Arghūn q.v.; his marriage connection Nūyān Tīrmīẕī q.v.; [♰873 AH.-1469 AD.].

Abū-sa‘īd Pūrān, see Jamālu’d-dīn.

Abū-sa‘īd Sult̤ān Auzbeg-Shaibān, Chīngīz-khānid, son of Kūchūm—☛ at Ghaj-davān (918) 360; at Jām (935) 622, 636; sends an envoy to Bābur 631, 632, 641; [♰940 AH.-1533-4 AD.].

Shaikh Abū-sa‘īd Tarkhān (var. Bū-sa‘īd)—his house Mīrzā Khān’s loot in Qandahār (913) 338.

Abū-turāb Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Ḥusain and Mīnglī—particulars 262, 269;

his son Sohrab q.v.;

[♰ before 911 AH.-1505-6 AD.].

Adīk Sult̤ān Qazzāq, Jūjī Chīngīz-khānid (var. Aūng Sult̤ān), son of Jānī Beg Khān (T.R. trs. 373)—husband of Sult̤ān-nigār Chaghatāī q.v.

‘Ādil Sult̤ān Auzbeg-Shaibān(?), Chingīz-khānid(?), son of Mahdī and a Bāī-qarā begīm—marries Shād Bāī-qarā 263; suggestions as to his descent 264 n. 1; waits on Bābur at Kalānūr (932) 458; on Bābur’s service 468, 471, 475, 530; in the left wing at Pānīpat 472, and at Kānwa (933) 567, 570; ordered against Balūchīs (935) 638; ☛ mentioned as a landless man 706.

Sayyida Afāq, a legendary wife of Bābūr 358 n. 2; her son and grandson ib.

Afghānī Āghāchā, see Mubārika.

Sayyid Afẓal Beg, son of ‘Alī Khwāb-bīn—conveys Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s summons to Bābur for help against Shaibānī (911) 255; particulars 282; takes news to Herāt of Bābur’s start from Kābul (912) 294; sends him news of Ḥusain’s death 295; [♰921 AH.-1516 AD.].

Āghā Begīm Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Ḥusain and Pāyanda-sult̤ān—parentage and marriage (or betrothal, Ḥ.S. iii, 327) 266; [♰ died in childhood].

Āghā-sult̤ān, ghūnchachi of ‘Umar Shaikh—her daughter Yādgār-i-sult̤ān q.v.

Āhī—his feet frost-bitten (912) 311.

Āhī, a poet—particulars 289; [♰ 907 AH.-1501-2].

Ahlī, a poet—particulars 290; (for 4 writers using Āhlī as their pen-name see 290 n. 6).

Sult̤ān Aḥmad Aīlchī-būghā, Mughūl—one of four daring much (912) 315; in the left wing at Qandahār (913) 334.

Pīr Aḥmad—leaves Samarkand with the Tarkhāns (905) 121; fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139.

Aḥmad Afshār Turk—a letter to him endorsed by Bābur (935) 617.

Mīrzā Aḥmad ‘Alī Farsī, Barlās—particulars 273.

Aḥmad ‘Alī Tarkhān Arghūn, brother of Qulī Beg—favours Bābur and admits him to Qandahār (913) 337.

Mullā Aḥmad Balkhī— conveys treasure to Balkh (932) 446.

Mirzā Sayyidī Aḥmad Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Mīrān-shāh—particulars 257 n. 5; named in a line of descent 280 n. 1; his son Aḥmad and grandson ‘Abdu’l-bāqī q.v.

Mīr Aḥmad Beg Itārajī Mughūl, paternal-uncle of Taṃbal—guardian of a son of The Khān (Maḥmūd) 115; reinforces Bābur (903) 92; acts against him (905) 115, 116; acts against ‘Alī Mīrān-shāhī 112; makes a contemptuous speech about Taṃbal (906) 145.

Aḥmad Beg Ṣafawī—☛ leads a reinforcement to help Bābur (917) 353.

Sult̤ān Aḥmad Chār-shaṃba’ī, see Chār-shaṃba.

Aḥmad chāshnīgīr—helps in poisoning Bābur (933) 541; [♰933 AH.-1526 AD.].

Aḥmad Ḥājī Beg Dūldāī, Barlās Turk—particulars 25, 37, 38; his pen-name Wafā’ī and a couplet of his 38; his hospitality to ‘Alī-sher Nawāī 38, 271; drives Khusrau Shāh from Samarkand (900) 51; supports Bāī-sunghar Mīrān-shāhī in the Tarkhān rebellion (901) 62, 63; his death at the hands of slaves and slave-women 63-4; [♰901 AH.-1496 AD.].

Aḥmadī parwānchī—on service (925) 377, (932) 458, 460, (933) 540; sent to surprise Ibrāhīm Lūdī (932) 468 (his name is omitted in my text); in the left centre at Pānīpat 472, 473; his ill-behaviour in the heats 524.

Sult̤an Aḥmad Khān—Alacha Khān—Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, son of Yūnas and Shāh Begīm—particulars 23, 160; meaning of his sobriquet Alacha Khān 23; younger Khān-dādā, Bābur’s name for him 129; considered as a refuge for Bābur (899) 29, (903) 92, (906) 129, (908) 158; visits Tāshkīnt (908) 159; ceremonies of meeting 160-1, 171-2; moves with his elder brother Maḥmūd against Taṃbal 161, 168, 171; his kindness to Bābur 159, 166-7, 169, 171; is given Bābur’s lands and why 168; retires from Andijān in fear of Shaibānī 172; defeated by Shaibānī at Archīān (908 or 909) 7, 23, ☛ 182-3; his death (909) reported to Bābur (911) 246 and n. 4; his sons Manṣūr, Sa’īd, Bābā (T.R. trs. 160, Bābājāk), Chīn-tīmūr, Tūkhtā-būghā, and Aīsan-tīmūr q.v.; his grandson Bābā q.v.; ☛ followers of his return from forced migration (908) when Shaibānī is killed (916) 351; [♰end of 909 AH.-1504 AD.].

Aḥmad Khān Ḥājī-tarkhānī (Astrakhānī)—marries Badī‘u’l-jamāl (Badka) Bāī-qarā (899?) 257, 258; their sons (Maḥmūd and Bahādur) 258; their daughter Khān-zāda q.v.

Sult̤ān Aḥmad Mīrzā Dūghlāt—sent by The Khān (Māḥmūd) to help Bābur (908) 161.

Sult̤ān Aḥmad Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Abū-sa‘īd—the lands his father gave him 35, 86; his brother Maḥmūd taken to his care (873 or 4) 46; his disaster on the Chīr (895) 17, 25, 31, 34; a swift courier to him 25; defeats ‘Umar Shaikh 17, 34; 12 n. 2; 53; invades Farghāna (899) 13, 30; given Aūrā-tīpā 27; dreaded for Bābur 29; retires and dies 31, 33; particulars 33, 40; referred to by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (910) 190; his wives and children 35-6; an honoured Beg Nūyān Tīrmīẕī q.v.; [♰899 AH.-1494 AD.].

Sult̤ān Aḥmād Mīrzā, Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Mīrzā Sayyidī Aḥmad—particulars 257 n. 5; his wife Ākā Begīm Bāī-qarā and their son Kīchīk Mīrzā q.v.; 266 n. 6; a building of his at Herī 305.

Aḥmād mushtāq, Turkmān—takes Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī to Ḥiṣār (873 or 4) 46-7.

Sult̤ān Aḥmad qarāwal, father of Qūch (Qūj) Beg, Tardī Beg and Sher-afgān Beg q.v.—defends Ḥiṣār (901) 58; enters Bābur’s service (905) 112; in the left Wing at Khūbān (905) 113; holds Marghīnān 123.

Aḥmad-i-qāsim Kohbur Chaghatāī, son of Ḥaidar-i-qāsim—with Bābur (906) 133; invited to a disastrous entertainment (907) 152; joins Jahāngīr and Taṃbal 156; in Akhsī (908) 171; defeats an Aūzbeg raider (910) 195; helps to hold Kābul for Bābur (912) 313; pursues Mīrzā Khān 317, 320; holding Tāshkīnt against Aūzbegs (918) 356, 358, 396, 397; a Kābulī servant of his 351.

Aḥmad-i-qāsim Qībchāq Turk, (grand-?) son of Bāqī Chaghānīānī and a sister of Khusrau Shāh, perhaps son of Bāqī’s son Muḥammad-i-qāsim (189 n. 3)—holding Kāhmard and Bāmīān (910) 189; given charge of the families of Bābur’s expeditionary force 189; ill-treats them and is forced to flee 197, 243; goes to Ḥusain Bāī-qarā ib.; killed at Qūndūz 244; [♰910 AH.-1505 AD.].

Sult̤ān Aḥmad Qāẓī Qīlīch—particulars 29; his son Khwāja Maulānā-i-qaẓī q.v.

Aḥmad qūshchī—seen by the fugitive Bābur (908) 180.

Khwāja Aḥmad Sajāwandī—his birthplace 217.

Aḥmad Shāh Khīljī Turk—dispossessed of Chandīrī by Ibrāhīm Lūdī 593; restored by Bābur (934) 598.

Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī, Abdālī Afghān—his victory at Pānīpat (1174) 472; [♰1182 AH.-1772 AD.].

Aḥmad Tarkhān Arghūn Chīngīz-khānid (?)—joins Bābur in Samarkand (906) 133; loses Dabūsī to Shaibānī 137; [♰906 AH.-1500 AD.].

Aḥmad (son of) Tawakkal Barlās, amir of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 272.

Aḥmad yāsāwal—conveys a message from Bābur to the begs of Kābul Fort (912) 314.

Khwāja Aḥmad Yasawī—Sayyid Ātā—Shaibānī’s vow at his shrine 348, 356; [♰514 AH.-1120-1 AD.].2870

Aḥmad-i-yūsuf Beg Aūghlāqchī, son of Ḥasan, nephew of Yūsuf—managing Yār-yīlāq for ‘Alī Mīrān-shāhī (904) 98; dismissed on suspicion of favouring Bābur 98; probably joins Bābur with his uncle (910) 196; remonstrated with him for fighting unmailed (911) 252; helping loyalists in Kābul (912) 313; saves Bābur a blow 315, 316; at Bājaur (925) 369, 401 (here Aḥmad Beg); joins Bābur in Hindūstān (933) 550; in the right wing at Kānwa 566 (where in n. 1 for “MAY” read is), 569; governor of Sīālkot 98.

Malik Aḥmad Yūsuf-zāī Afghān, nephew of Sulaimān q.v.—particulars App. K.

Aī Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Maḥmūd and Khān-zāda II.—betrothed to Jahāngīr. (cir. 895) 48; married (910) 189; their daughter 48.

Aīkū-sālam Mughūl—rebels against Bābur (914) 345.

Aīkū2871-tīmūr Beg Tarkhān Arghūn—his descendant Darwesh Beg q.v.; [♰793 AH.-1391 AD.].

Sult̤ān? Aīlīk Māẓī Aūīghūr (Ūīghūr)—his descendant Khwāja Maulānā-i-qāẓī q.v.

Aīrzīn Beg (var. Aīrāzān) Bārīn Mughūl—supports Yūnas Chaghatāī (cir. 830), takes him to Aūlūgh Beg Shāh-rukhī (cir. 832) 19; ill-received and his followers scattered 20; [♰832 AH.-1428 AD.].

Aīsān-būghā Khān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānīd, son of Dāwā—named in Yūnas Khān’s genealogy 19; [♰cir. 718 AH.-1318 AD.].

Aīsān-būghā Khān II. Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, son of Wais—particulars 19;

invades Farghāna and defeated at Aspara (cir. 855) 20;

quarrels with the begs of the Sāghārīchī tūmān and leads to the elevation of Yūnas ib.; [♰866 AH.-1462 AD.].

Aīsān-daulat Begīm Kūnjī (or Kūnchī) Mughūl, wife of Yūnas Chaghatāī—particulars 20, 21; her good judgment (900) 43; entreats Bābur’s help for Andijān (903) 88-9; joins him in Khujand after the loss of Andijān 92, and in Dikh-kat after that of Samarkand (907) 151; news of her death reaches Kābul (911) 246; rears one of ‘Umar Shaikh’s daughters 18; her kinsmen ‘Alī-dost, Sherīm, Ghiyās̤ q.v.; [♰910 AH.-1505 AD.].

Aīsān-qulī Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-Shaibān, Chīngīz-khānid—his Bāī-qarā marriage, 265, 397.

Aīsān-tīmūr Sult̤ān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, son of Aḥmad (Alacha Khān)—on Bābur’s service 318, 682; meets Bābur (935) 654; in the battle of the Ghogrā 672, 673; thanked 677; angers Bābur 684.

Ākā Begīm, Barlās Turk, daughter of Tīmūr—an ancestress of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā 256.

Ākā Begīm Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, daughter of Manṣūr and Fīrūza—particulars 257; her husband Aḥmad and their son Kīchīk Mīrzā q.v.

Abū’l-fatḥ Jalālu’d-dīn Muḥammad Akbar Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, grandson of Bābur and Māhīm—☛ 184; ☛ an addition about him made to the Chihil-zīna inscription 432; ☛ his visit to Pānīpat (963) 472; his change in the name of the cherry explained by Bābur’s words 501, n. 6; [♰1014 AH.-1605 AD.].

Alacha Khān, see Aḥmad Chaghatāī.

Al-amān, son of Humāyūn—his birth and name (935) 621, 624, 642; [♰ in infancy].

‘Ālam Khān Kālpī, son of Jalāl Khān Jik-hat (or Jig-hat)—holding Kālpī and not submissive to Bābur (932) 523; goes to Court (933) 544; disobeys orders 557; is Bābur’s host in Kālpī (934) 590; on service (935) 682; an order about him 684.

‘Alāu’u’d-dīn ‘Ālam Khān Lūdī Afghān, son of Buhlūl—☛ a principal actor between 926-32 AH. 428; ☛ asks and obtains Bābur’s help against his nephew Ibrāhīm (929) 439-441; placed by Bābur in charge of Dībālpūr (930) 442; ☛ defeated by Daulat Khān Yūsuf-khail (931) 444; flees to Kābul and is again set forth 444, 455; defeated by Ibrāhīm and returns to Bābur (932) 454-8; his relations with Bābur reviewed 455, n. 1; in Fort Ginguta 457, 463; in the left centre at Kānwa (933) 565; his sons Jalāl, Kamāl, and Sher Khān (Lūdī) q.v.

Sult̤ān ‘Alāu’u’d-dīn ‘Ālam Khān Sayyidī—holding Dihlī 481; [♰855 AH.-1451 AD.].

‘Ālam Khān Tahangarī, brother of Niz̤ām Khān of Bīāna—works badly with Bābur’s force (933) 538; defeated by his brother 539; sent out of the way before Kānwa 547.

‘Alāu’u’d-dīn Ḥusain Shāh, ruler in Bengal—the circumstances of his succession 483; his son Naṣrat q.v.; [♰925 AH.-1518 AD.?].

‘Alāu’u’d-dīn Ḥusain Jahān-soz Ghūrī—his destruction in Ghazni (550) 219; [♰556 AH.-1161 AD.?].

Sult̤ān ‘Alāu’u’d-dīn Muḥammad Shāh Khīljī Turk—Bābur visits his tomb and minār (932) 476; his bringing of the Koh-i-nūr from the Dakkhin 477; [♰715 AH.-1315 AD.].

Sult̤ān ‘Alāu’u’d-dīn Sawādī—waits on Bābur (925) 372, 375-6.

‘Alāūl Khān Sūr Afghān—writes dutifully to Bābur (935) 659.

‘Alāūl Khān Nūḥānī Afghān—his waitings on Bābur (934, 935) 677, 680.

Sharafu’d-dīn Muḥammad al Buṣīrī—his Qaṣīdatu’l-būrda an example for the Wālidiyyah-risāla 620; [♰cir. 693 AH.-1294 AD.].

Alexander of Macedon, see Iskandar Fīlqūs (Failaqūs).

Sayyid ‘Alī—escapes from a defeat (909) 102; out with Bābur (925) 403; sent against Balūchīs (935) 638.

Sult̤ān ‘Alī aṣghar Mīrzā Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Mas‘ūd Kābulī—particulars 382.

‘Alī Ātāka, servant of Khalīfa—reinforces the right wing (tūlghuma) at Kānwa (933) 569.

Shaikh ‘Alī Bahādur, one of Tīmūr’s chiefs—his descendant Bābā ‘Alī 27.

Khwāja ‘Alī Bāī—mentioned (906) 127; fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 139; his son Jān-i-‘alī q.v.

Shaikh ‘Alī Bārīn Mughūl, son of Shaikh Jamāl—in the left wing (tūlghuma) at Pānīpat (932) 473; sent against Balūchīs (935) 638.

‘Alī Barlās Turk—his son Muḥammad Barandūq q.v.

‘Alī Beg Jalāīr Chaghatāī, father of Ḥasan-i-‘Alī and Apāq Bega—his Shāh-rukhī service 278.2872

Mīr (Shaikh) ‘Alī Beg Turk (inferred 389), governor of Kābul for Shāh-rukh Tīmūrīd—his sons Bābā Kābulī, Daryā Khān, and Ghāzī (Apāq) Khān (q.v.) cherished by Mas‘ūd Shāh-rukhī 382; (see his son Ghāzī’s grandson Minūchihr for a Turk relation 386).

Sult̤ān ‘Alī chuhra, Chaghatāī—his loyalty to Bābur doubted (910) 239; rebels (914) 345.

Sayyid ‘Alī-darwesh Beg Khurāsānī—particulars 28; with Jahāngīr (æt. 8), in Akhsī (899) 32, leaves Bābur for home (903) 91; on Bābur’s service (904) 106, (905) 28, 118.

Mīr ‘Alī-dost T̤aghāī Kūnjī Mughūl, a Sāghārīchī-tūmān beg—particulars 27-8; his appointment on Bābur’s accession (899) 32; has part in a conference (900) 43; surrenders Andijān (903) 88-9; asks Bābur’s pardon (904) 99; gives him Marghīnān 100; defeated by Taṃbal 106; in the right wing at Khūbān (905) 113; his ill-timed pacifism 118; his self-aggrandizement 119, 123; joins Bābur against Samarkand 123; in fear of his victims, goes to Taṃbal 125; his death ib.; his brother Ghiyās̤, his son Muḥammad-dost, and his servant Yūl-chūq q.v.; [♰a few years after 905 AH.-1500 AD.].

Mīr Sayyid ‘Alī Hamadānī—his death and burial 211; [♰786 AH.-1384 AD.].

Mullā ‘Alī-jān (var. Khān)—fetches his wife from Samarkand (925) 403; is taught a rain-spell (926) 423; makes verse on the Kābul-river (932) 448; a satirical couplet on him made and repented by Bābur 448; host of Mullā Maḥmūd Farābī (935) 653.

‘Alī Khān Bāyandar, Āq-qūīlūq Turkmān—joins Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (873) 279.

Shaikh-zāda ‘Alī Khān Farmūlī Afghān—his family-train captured (932) 526; waits on Bābur 526-7; in the left wing at Kānwa (933) 567; on service 576, 582, 678.

‘Alī Khān Istiljū—leads Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī’s reinforcement to Bābur (917) 353.

Sayyid ‘Alī Khān Turk, son of Ghāzī (Apāq) Khān and grandson of Mīr (Shaikh) ‘Alī Beg—one of Sikandar Lūdī’s Governors in the Panjāb (910) 382; leaves Bhīra on Bābur’s approach ib.; his lands made over by him to Daulat Khān Yūsuf-khail 382-3; his son Minūchihr and their Turk relation (389) q.v.

‘Alī Khān Turkmān, son of ‘Umar Beg—defends the Bāī-qarā families against Shaibānī (913) 328.

‘Alī Khān Yūsuf-khail Lūdī Afghān—eldest son of Daulat Khān—his servants wait on Bābur (925) 382; comes out of Milwat (Malot) to Bābur (932) 459-60; sent under guard to Bhīra 461; his son Ismā‘īl q.v.

Sayyid ‘Alī Khwāb-bīn, father of Sayyid Afẓal q.v. (cf. Ḥ.S. lith. ed. iii, 346).

Mullā Sult̤ān ‘Alī khẉush-nawīs, calligrapher of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 291; given lessons in penmanship by Shaibānī (913) 329; [♰919 AH.-1513 AD.].

‘Alī-mazīd Beg qūchīn—particulars 26; leaves Bābur for home (903) 91.

Mīr ‘Alī mīr-akhẉur2873—particulars 279; helps Ḥusain Bāī-qarā to surprise Yādgār-i-muḥammad Shāh-rukhī in Herī (875) 134, 279.

Sult̤ān ‘Alī Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Maḥmūd and Zuḥra—particulars 47; serving his half-brother Bāī-sunghar (900) 27, 55; made pādshāh in Samarkand by the Tarkhāns (901) 62-3, 86; meets Bābur 64; their arrangement 66, (902) 65, 82, 86; gives no protection to his blind half-brother Mas‘ūd (903) 95; suspects a favoured beg (904) 98; quarrels with the Tarkhāns (905) 121; desertions from him 122; defeats Mīrzā Khān’s Mughūls ib.; is warned of Bābur’s approach 125; gives Samarkand to Shaibānī and by him is murdered (906) 125-7; his wife Sult̤ānīm Mīrān-shāhī and sister Makhdūm-sult̤ān q.v.; [♰906 AH.-1500 AD.].

Sult̤ān ‘Alī Mīrzā T̤aghāī Begchīk (Mīrzā Beg T̤aghāī), brother(?) of Bābur’s wife Gul-rukh—movements of his which bear on the lacuna of 914-924 AH. 408; arrives in Kābul (925) ib.; Kāmrān marries his daughter (934) 619; conveys Bābur’s wedding gifts to Kāmrān (935) 642; takes also a copy of the Wālidiyyah-risāla and of the Hindūstān poems, with writings (sar-khat̤t̤) in the Bāburī script 642.

Ustād ‘Alī-qulī—his match-lock shooting at Bajaur (925) 369; shoots prisoners (932) 466; ordered to make Rūmī defences at Pānīpat 469; fires firingīs from the front of the centre 473; casts a large mortar (933) 536, 547; his jealousy of Muṣt̤afa Rūmī 550; his post previous to Kānwa 558; his valiant deeds in the battle 570-1; a new mortar bursts (934) 588; his choice of ground at Chandīrī 593; his stone-discharge interests Bābur 595, 670-1-2; uses the Ghāzī mortar while the Ganges bridge is in building 599; a gift to his son (935) 633; his post in the battle of the Ghogrā 667, 668, 669.

‘Alī-qulī Hamadānī—☛ sent by Bābur to punish the Mundāhirs, and fails (936) 700.

Mīr ‘Alī qūrchī—conveys playing-cards to Shāh Ḥasan Arghūn (933) 584.

Malik ‘Alī qut̤nī(?)—in the left centre at Bajaur (925) 369.

‘Alī Sayyid Mughūl—in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334; rebels (914) 3452874; his connection Aūrūs-i ‘Alī Sayyid 335.

‘Alī shab-kūr (night-blind)—one of five champions defeated in single combat by Bābur (914) 349.

Mīr ‘Alī-sher Beg Chaghatāī, pen-names Nawā’ī and Fanā’ī—his obligations to Aḥmad Ḥājī Beg and return to Herāt 38; fails in a mission of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s (902) 692875; his Turkī that of Andijān 4; checks Ḥusain in Shī‘a action 258; opposes administrative reform 282; particulars 271-2; his relations with Banā’ī 286-7, 648; corresponds with Bābur (906) 106; exchanges quatrains with Pahlawān Bū-sa‘īd 292; some of his poems transcribed by Bābur (925) 419; his restoration of the Rabāt̤-i-sang-bast 301 n. 1; his flower-garden (bāghcha) and buildings visited or occupied by Bābur (912) 301, 305, 306; his brother Darwesh-i-‘alī q.v.; a favoured person 278; a mystic of his circle 280-1; his scribe 271; [♰906 AH.-Dec. 1500 AD.].

‘Alī-shukr Beg, of the Bahārlū-aīmāq of the Āq-qūīlūq2876 Turkmāns—his daughter Pasha, grandson Yār-i-‘alī Balāl, and descendant Bairām Khān-i-khānān q.v.

Sult̤ān ‘Alī Sīstānī Arghūn—his help against Shaibānī counselled (913) 326; ☛ one of five champions worsted by Bābur in single combat (914) 349; with Bābur and chops at a tiger (925) 393.

Shaikh ‘Alī T̤aghāī Mervī(?)—holding Balkh for Badī‘u’z-zamān Bāī-qarā (902) 70; joint-dārogha in Herī (911) 293.

Allāh-bīrdī (var. qūlī)—serving Bābur (910) 234.

Allāh-wairān Turkmān—in the van at Qandahār (913) 335.

Alūr or Alwar,2877 son of Bābur and Dil-dār—mentioned 689 n. 5. ☛ 712; [♰died an infant].

Amīn Mīrzā—an Aūzbeg envoy to Bābur (935) 631; receives gifts 632, 641.

Amīn-i-muḥammad Tarkhān Arghūn—punished for disobedience (925) 390-1; deals with a drunken companion 415.

Amīr Khān, chief guardian of T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawī—☛ negociates with Bābur (927) 433.

Mullā Apāq—particulars 526; on Bābur’s service (932) 526, 528, (933) 539, (934) 590; surprised by Sangā (933) 549; made shíqdār of Chandīrī 598; his retainers on service (935) 679.

Apāq Bega Jalāīr Chaghatāī, sister of Ḥusan-i-‘alī—a poet 286.

Sayyida Apāq Begīm Andikhūdī—particulars 267, 268, 269; visited in Herāt by Bābur (912) 301.

Apāq Khān, see Ghāzī Khān.

Apāq Khān Yūsuf-khail, see Ghāzī Khān.

Apāq-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Abū-sa‘īd—one of the paternal aunts visited by Bābur (912) 301 n. 3.

Āq Begīm (1), Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlāṣ Turk, daughter of Ḥusain and Pāyanda-sult̤ān—particulars 265; [pre-deceased her husband who died ♰911 AH.-1504 AD.].

Āq Begīm (2), Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—daughter of Abū-sa‘īd and Khadīja—particulars 262, 268; waited on by Bābur (935) 606.

Āq Begīm (3), ut supra, daughter of Maḥmūd and Khān-zāda II.—brought to join Bābur’s march (910) 48.

Āq Begīm (4), see Ṣāliḥa-sult̤ān.

Āq-būghā Beg, one of Tīmūr’s chiefs—collateral ancestor of Khudāī-bīrdī Tīmūr-tāsh 24.

‘Āqil Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-Shaibān, son of ‘Ādil and Shād Bāī-qarā—his conjectured descent 264 n. 1 (where in l. 4 for “‘āqil” read ‘ādil).

Arāīsh Khān—proffers support to Bābur against Ibrāhīm Lūdī (932) 463; in the left centre at Kānwa (933) 565; negociates about surrendering Chandīrī (934) 594; his gift of a boat to Bābur 663.

Arghūn Sult̤ān, elder brother of Muḥammad ‘Alī Jang-jang—deputed to hold Milwat (Malot., 932) 461.

Shaikh ‘Ārif Āẕarī, nephew of Tīmūr’s story-teller, see Index s.n. Aūlūgh Beg Shāh-rukhī; [♰866 AH.-1461-2 AD. æt. 82, Beale].

Arslān Jazāla—his building of the Rabāt̤-i-sang-bast 301 n. 1.

Asad Beg Turkmān—joins Ḥusain Bāī-qarā 279; his brother Taham-tan q.v.

Khwāja and Khwājagī Asadu’l-lāh Jān-dār, Khawāfī—with Bābur in Dikh-kat (907) 150; envoy to T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawī (933) 540, 583; has charge of Ibrāhīm Lūdī’s mother 543; in the right wing at Kānwa 566, 569.

Khwāja Āṣafi—particulars 286; waits on Bābur (912) 286; [♰920 or 926 AH.-1514 or 1520 AD.].

‘Asas, see Khwāja Muḥammad ‘Alī ‘asas.

‘Āshiq bakāwal—with advance-troops for Chandīrī (934) 590; ordered on service (935) 638.

‘Āshiq-i-muḥammad Kūkūldāsh Arghūn, son of “Amīr Tarkhān Junaid” (Ḥ.S. lith. ed. iii, 359)—defends Ālā-qūrghān against Shaibānī (913) 328; his brother Mazīd Beg q.v.

‘Āshiqu’l-lāh Arghūn—killed fighting against Bābur at Qandahār (913) 333 (where for “‘Ashaq” read ‘Āshiq).

Asīru’d-dīn Akhsīkītī, a poet—his birthplace Akhsī-village (kīt-kīnt) 9-10; [♰608 AH.-1211-2 AD.].

Muhammad ‘Askarī Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrīd, Barlās Turk, son of Bābur and Gul-rukh—☛ his birth (922) 364; gifts to him (932) 523, (933) 628; ☛ his recall from Multān (934) 603-4-5, 6992878; waits on his father (935) 605; made Commander (æt. cir. 12) of the army of the East 628, 637; at a feast 631; takes leave 634; waits on his father at Dugdugī 651; east of the Ganges 654; in the battle of the Ghogrā 668-9, 671-3; waits on Bābur after the victory 674; [♰965 AH.-1557-8 AD.].

Asūk Mal Rājpūt—negociates with Bābur for Sangā’s son (934-5) 612-3.

Sayyid ‘Atā, see Khwāja Aḥmad Yasawī.

Khwāja Jamālu’d-īn ‘At̤ā—particulars 282 (where in n. 3 for (Ḥ.S. iii), “345” read 348-9).

Atākā bakhshī (var. Ātīkā, Pers. Atka)—a surgeon who dresses a wound of Bābur’s (908) 169.

Atā mīr-ākhẉur—gives Bābur a meal (925) 418.

Mīr Burhānu’d-dīn ‘At̤ā’u’l-lāh Mashhadī—particulars 285 (Ḥ.S. iii, 345); [♰926 AH.-1520 AD.].

Atūn Māmā, a governess—walks from Samarkand to Pashāghar (907) 148; mentioned? (925) 407 l. 4.

Aūghān-bīrdī Mughūl (var. Afghān-bīrdī and -tardī)—on service (925) 376, 377; of a boat-party 387; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 671, 672.

Sayyid Āūghlāqchī, see Murād.

Auliya Khān Ishrāqī—waits on Bābur (935) 677.

Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Muḥammad Sult̤ān Mīrzā—his (?) journey to Hindustan (933) 265.

Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā Kābulī, Mīrān-shāhī, ut supra, son of Abū-sa‘īd—particulars 95; his earliest guardians amusingly frustrate his designs against them 270; his dealings with the Yūsuf-zāī App. K. xxxvi; his co-operation with Ḥusain Bāī-qarā against the Aūzbegs 190; his praise of Istālīf 216; his death (907) 185; gardens of his bought by Bābur (perhaps one only) 216, (911) 246; another garden 315; houses of his 247, 251; his Almshouse 315; referred to 284; his joint-guardians Muḥammad Barandūq and Jahāngīr Barlās, his later one Wais Ātāka q.v.; his sons ‘Abdu’r-razzāq and Mīrān-shāh, his daughter Bega Begīm and daughter-in-law Manauwar q.v.; [♰907 AH.-1501-2 AD.].

Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā Shāh-rukhī, ut supra (Ūlūgh), son of Shāh-rukh—his Trans-oxus rule 852879; receives Yūnas Chaghatāī badly (832-3?) 19-20; defeated by Abā-bikr Mīrān-shāhī 260; his family dissensions 20; his constructions, Astronomical and other 74, 77, 78-92880; his sportsmanship 342881; his murder and its chronograms 85; Bābur resides in his College (906) 142; his sons ‘Abdu’l-lat̤īf and ‘Abdu’l-‘azīz q.v.; a favoured beg Yūsuf Aūghlāqchī q.v.; Preface, q.v. On the misnomer “Mughūl Dynasty”. [♰853 AH.-1449 AD.].

Aūlūs Āghā (Ūlūs), daughter of Khwāja Ḥusain q.v.—particulars 24.

Aūrdū-būghā Tarkhān Arghūn (Ūrdū)—his son-in-law Abū-sa‘īd Mīrān-shāhī and son Darwesh-i-muḥammad q.v.

Aūrdū-shāh—murdered as an envoy (923) 463 n. 3.

Aurang-zīb Pādshāh Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—☛ referred to as of Bābur’s line 184; [♰1118 AH.-O.S. 1707 AD.].

Amīr Aūrūs—☛ flees from his post on Shaibānī’s death (916) 350.

Aūrūs-i ‘Alī Sayyid Mughūl, son? of ‘Alī Sayyid—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335.

Aūrūs Arghūn—his son Muḥammad-i-aūrūs q.v.

Aūzbeg Bahādur (Ūzbeg)—☛ one of five champions worsted in single combat by Bābur (914) 349 n. 1.

Aūzūn Ḥasan Beg Āq-qūīlūq Turkmān—his defeat of the Qarā-qūīlūq Turkmāns and of Abū-sa‘īd Mīrān-shāhī 49; [♰883 AH.-1478 AD.].

Khwāja Aūzūn Ḥasan (Ūzūn)2882—negociates for Bābur (899) 30; his appointment 32; confers in Bābur’s interests (900) 43 (where add his name after ‘Alī-dost’s); acts for Jahāngīr against Bābur (903) 87, 88, 91, (904) 100, 101, 102; his servant’s mischievous report of Bābur’s illness (903) 89; his men defeated by Bābur’s allies 102; loses Akhsī and Andijān 102-3; captured and released by Bābur 104; goes into Samarkand to help Bābur (907) 146; his brother Ḥusain and adopted son Mīrīm q.v.

‘Ayisha-sult̤ān Begīm Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Ḥusain—particulars 267; her husbands Qāsim Aūzbeg-Shaibān and Būrān, her sons Qāsim-i-ḥusain and ‘Abdu’l-lāh q.v.

‘Ayisha-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī, ut supra, daughter of Aḥmad (Alacha Khān) and first wife of Bābur—particulars 35, 36; married (905) 35, 120, 711; joins Bābur in Samarkand (906) 135-6; her child 136; leaves Bābur 36.

Mīr Ayūb Beg Begchīk—particulars 50; sent by The Khān (Maḥmūd) to help Bābur (903) 92, (906) 138, 161, 170; his Mughūls misbehave at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 140; claims post in the right wing (tūlghuma) 155; his Mughūls confuse pass-words 164; in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334; ☛ vainly tempts Sa‘id Chaghatāī to betray Bābur (916) 351; ☛ does not then desert 352, 362; ☛ rebels in Ḥiṣār (918) 362; ☛ dying, repents his disloyalty (920) 362; his sons Buhlūl-i-ayūb, Ya‘qūb-i-ayūb and Yūsuf-i-ayūb q.v.; [♰920 AH.-1514 AD.].

‘Az̤im Humāyūn Sarwānī—invests Gūāliār 477; his title changed and why (933) 537; his son Fatḥ Khān q.v.

Mīr ‘Azū, a musical composer—particulars 292.

Bābā ‘Alī aīshīk-āghā (īshīk), a Lord-of-the-Gate of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 278; his son Yūnas-i-‘alī and friend Badru’d-dīn q.v.

Bābā-qulī’s Sult̤ān Bābā ‘Alī Beg2883—particulars 27; his sons Bābā-qulī, Sayyidīm ‘Alī and Dost-i-anjū (?) Shaikh q.v.; [♰900 AH.-1495 AD.].

Bābā-aūghūlī, see Pāpā-aūghūlī.

Bābā Chuhra, a household brave—reprieved from death (914) 344; on Bābur’s service (932) 474, 534, (934) 590, 602; does well in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 671.

Bābā Ḥusain, see Ḥusain.

Bābā Jān akhtachī, a groom or squire—Bābur dislocates his own thumb in striking him (925) 409.

Bābā Jān qābūzī—musician at entertainments (925) 386-7, 388.

Bābā Kābulī Turk, son of Mīr ‘Alī, Shāh-rukh (Tīmūrid)’s Governor of Kābul—nominated ‘Umar Shaikh’s guardian when Kābul was allotted to the boy 14; particulars 382; his brothers Daryā Khān and Ghāzī (Apāq) Khān q.v.

Bābā Khān Sult̤ān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānīd, (Bābājāk), son of Aḥmad (Alacha Khān)—his ceremonious meeting with Bābur (908) 159; [living in 948 AH.-1542—T.R.].

Bābā Khān Chaghatāī, son of The Khān (Maḥmūd)—murdered with his father and brothers by Shaibānī (914) 35.

Bābā Qashqa Mughūl (perhaps identical with Qashqa Maḥmūd Chīrās q.v.)—out with Bābur (925) 404, 405; in charge of Dībālpūr (930) 442; his brothers Malik Qāsim and Kūkī; his sons Shāh Muḥammad, Dost-i-muḥammad and Ḥājī Muḥammad Khān Kūkī q.v.; [♰cir. 940 AH.-1553 AD.].2884

Sult̤ān Bābā-qulī Beg, son of Sult̤ān Bābā ‘Alī Beg—serving under Khusrau Shāh (901) 60, 61; with Bābur and captured (903) 72; staunch to him 91; in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335; conveys royal letters (932) 529.2885

Bābā Sairāmī—pursues Bābur in his flight from Akhsī (908) 178; promised fidelity but seems to have been false 179-182.

Bābā Shaikh Chaghatāī, brother of Mullā Bābā Pashāgharī—in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335; ☛ rebels at Ghaznī (921) 363; forgiven (925) 397; deserts Humāyūn (932) 546; his capture and death 545; a reward given for his head id.; [♰932 or 933 AH.-1526 AD.].

Bābā Shaikh—sent out for news (935) 661.

Bābā Sher-zād—one of three with Bābur against Taṃbal (908) 163; does well at Akhsī 174; fights against rebels at Kābul (912) 315; at Qandahār (913) 335.

Bābā Sult̤ān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, son of Khalīl son of Aḥmad (Alacha Khān)—waits on Bābur near Kālpī (934) 590; particulars 590; on service 318, (934) 599; not at his post (935) 672.

Bābā Yāsāwal—at the siege of Bajaur (925) 370; chops at a tiger’s head 393.

Bābū Khān—holding Kalanjar and looking towards Hātī Kākar (925) 387.

Ẓahīru’d-dīn Muḥammad Bābur Pādshāh Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—b. Muḥarram 6th 888 AH.-Feb. 14th 1483 AD. p. 1; ♰Jumāda I, 6th 937 AH.-Dec. 26th 1530 A.D. 708; Parentage:—paternal 13, maternal 19, 21; Titles:—Mīrzā (inherited) Pādshāh (taken) 344, Ghāzī (won) 574, Firdaus-makānī (Dweller-in-paradise, posthumous) see Gladwin’s Revenue Accounts; Religion:—2886belief in God’s guidance 31, 72-3, 103-13-37-94-99; in His intervention 73, 247, 316, 446-51-74-79, 525-96, 620; that His will was done 55, 100-16-32-34-35-67, 269, 316-22-23-36-37-70, 454-70-71-80, 542-94, 627-28-70; that He has pleasure in good 331; that to die is to go to His mercy 67; reliance on Him 100-08-16-32, 311, 463, 678; God called to witness 254 and invoked to bless 624; His punishment of sin 42-5, 449-77 (Hell), and of breach of Law 449; His visitation of a father’s sins on children 45; His predestination of events 128, 243-46-53, 469, 594; —prayer to Him for a sign of victory 440, for the dead 246, against a bad wife 258; a life-saving prayer 316; Characteristics:—ambition 92-7; admiration of high character 27, 67, 89, 90; bitterness and depression (in youth) 91, 130-52-57-78; consideration for dependants 91-9, 158-78-96, 469; distrust of the world 95, 144-56; silent humiliation 119; fairness 15, 24, 91, 105, 469; fearlessness 163-5-73; fidelity:—to word 104, 129 (see 118-9), 172-3, 194, to salt 125, to family-relation,—filial 88-9, 135-49-57-58-88, —fraternal see Jahāngīr and Nāṣir,—Tīmūrid 41, 149-57-68, Chaghatāī 54, 169-72, Mughūl 27, 119-25, Aūzbeg 37; friendship see Nūyān and Khw. Kalān; good judgment 43, 87, 91, 134-37-55; gratitude 99, 633; insouciance 150; joy at release from stress 99, 134-35-48-81; bashfulness and passion 120; persistence 92-7 and passim; promptitude 117, 170; reprobation of vice, tyranny and cruelty 42-5-6, 50, 66, 70, 90-6, 102-10-25-97, 290; and of an unmotherly woman 125-28; self-reproach 147; self-comment on inexperienced action 165-67-73; dislike of talkativeness 28, 97, 143-92-93; vexation at loss of rule (æt. 14) 90-1-9, 129-30-57; truth for truth sake 135, 318; seeking and weighing counsel 73, 100-14-31-41-65-70-73-97-98, 229-30-31-48, 340-76-78, 410-12-69, 524-30-77, 628-39-67-69-82; enjoins Humāyūn to take counsel 627; Occupations (non-military):—archery i.a. 175; calligraphy see infra; literary composition see infra; metrical amusements see verse; Natural History passim; travel, excursions, sight-seeing, social intercourse passim; building 5, 217-9, 375-98, in Dūlpūr 585, 606-07-42, in Āgra 642, in Kābul 646-7, in Sīkrī 588, Ajodhyā mosque 656 n. 3, App. U, Pānīpat mosque 472 n. 1; gardening and garden-making passim; —Bābur’s script (Bāburī-khat̤t̤) devised 910 AH. 228, Qorān transcribed by him in it 228 n. 4; studied by an enquirer 285; alphabet and specimens sent to Bābur’s sons 642; Abūshqa account of, App. Q, lxii to lxv; Observance and breaches of Muḥ. Law:—signs of his Sunnī mind e.g. 25, 44, 111, 262, 370-7, 483, 547-51-74-89-96, in the Mubīn and Wālidiyyah-risāla q.v.; his orthodox reputation 711; his heterodox seeming 354, and arrow-sped disclaimer 361; —his boyish obedience as to wine 302, up to his 23rd year 299, 302-3-4; for breach see Law and Wine; Writings:—a. Verses in the B.N. down to 926 AH. see infra; b. First Dīwān 402;* perhaps containing the Abūshqa quotations 438; c. Diary of 925 and 926 q.v. AH. (probably a survival of more) *438; d. The Mubīn (928 AH.) 426-37-38-49; quoted 630-31 n. 3; e. Treatise on Prosody (931 AH.) 586, App. Q, lx, lxvi; f. The Wālidiyyah-risāla (935 AH.) 619-20-31 n. 3, (tarjuma) 642-3, App. Q, lix; g. The Hindūstān Poems 642, App. Q; h. Rāmpūr MS. of 6 and 7. App. Q, referred to *438, *620 n. 6, 642 n. 3; i. Diary of 932 to 936 q.v.; j. Narrative of 899 to within 914 AH. q.v.; Bābur’s verse quoted in the Bābur-nāma:—(Turkī,) love-sickness 120-1; the worldling 130; granting a request 137; respite from stress 148; praise of a beloved 153; the neglected exile 154; isolation 156; the New Years 236; Fortune’s cruelty 309;? Turkmān Hazāra raid 312; Spring 321; God only is strength 337; dealing with tribesmen 393; greeting to absent convives 401; message to a kinswoman 402; his broken vow 449, 450 n.; reply to Khw. Kalān 526; disobedience to Law (T. & P.) 556; Death inevitable (T. & P.) 556 (?); the Ghāzī’s task 575; to those who have left him 584; couplet used in metrical amusement 586, App. 2, sect. 2; fever 588; Chandīrī 596; on his first grandson’s birth 624; Mūbīn quoted 637; Pagan lands 637; pain in renunciation 648; an invitation 683; [Persian,] good in everything 311; insight of Age 340; on casting off his Shī‘a seeming 361; parting from Khw. Kalān 372; a message 411; satirical couplet 448; before Pānīpat 470; Bīāna warned 529. See Table of Contents, On Bābur’s Naming.

Bābur Mīrzā Arlāt, son of Muḥammad-i-qāsim and Rābi‘a-sult̤ān Mīrān-shāhī—his Bāī-qarā marriage 266. ‘Abdu’l-qāsim Bābur Mīrzā Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Bāī-sunghar—his sister 265; his retainers Muḥammad Barandūq and Mazīd q.v.; his pleasure-house 302; [♰861 AH.-1457 AD.].

Bāburī—a bāzār-boy (905) 120.

Badī‘u’l-jamāl Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Abū-sa‘īd—waited on by Bābur near Āgra (935) 616.

Badī‘u’l-jamāl Badka Begīm Bāī-qarā, ut supra, daughter of Manṣūr and Fīrūza—particulars 257, 258; her husband Aḥmad Ḥājī-tarkhānī, their sons Maḥmūd and Bahādur and daughter Khān-zāda q.v.

Badī‘u’z-zamān Mīrzā Bāī-qarā, ut supra, son of Ḥusain and Bega Mervī—serving his father against Khusrau Shāh (901) 57; defeated 61; takes offence with his father 61, 69; in arms and defeated by his father 69, 70; his retort on Nawā’ī (q.v.); goes destitute to Khusrau Shāh and is well-treated 70, 130; on Khusrau Shāh’s service 71; moves with Arghūn chiefs against his father (903) 95, 261; gives Bābur no help against Shaibānī (906) 138; his co-operation sought by his father (910) 190, 191; takes refuge with his father 243; has fear for himself (911) 292-3; joint-ruler in Herī 293; concerts and abandons action against Shaibānī (912) 296-7, 301; his social relations with Bābur 297, 8, 9, 300, 2, 4; courteous to Bābur as a non-drinker 303; a false report of him in Kābul (912) 313; irresolute against Shaibānī (913) 326; his army defeated 275, 327; abandons his family and flees (1) to Shāh Beg Arghūn, (2) to Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī 327; captured in Tabrīz by Sult̤ān Sālim Rūmī (920) and dies in Constantinople (923) 327 n. 5; a couplet on his name 201-2; musicians compete in his presence 291; his host-facility 304; his son Muḥammad-i-zamān, his begs Jahāngīr Barlās and Ẕū’n-nūn Arghūn q.v..; joined by Sayyidīm Dārbān q.v; his College in Herī 306; [♰923 AH.-1517 AD.].

Sayyid Badr—particulars 276; safe-guards Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī 46-7; seen by Bābur in Herāt (912) 299; (see Ḥ.S. lith. ed. iii, 233).

Badru’d-dīn—particulars 278; his friend Bābā ‘Alī q.v.; his son (?) receives Kachwa (934) 590.

Maulānā Badru’d-dīn Hilālī, Chaghatāī—particulars 290; his poet-daughter 286 n. 1; [♰939 AH.-1532-3 AD.].

Bahādur Khān Sarwānī—Bābur halts at his tomb (935) 686.

Bahādur Khān Gujrātī, Tānk Rājpūt—ill-received by Ibrāhīm Lūdī (932); exchanges friendly letters with Bābur 534; becomes Shāh in Gujrāt 535; is given the Khīljī jewels 613 n. 1; [♰943 AH.-1547 AD.].

Bahjat Khān (or Bihjat), a Governor of Chandīrī—Bābur halts near his tank (934) 592, 594.

Bāī-qarā Mīrzā ‘Umar-shaikhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, grandson of Tīmūr—mentioned in a genealogy 256; a grandson ‘Abdu’l-lāh Andikhūdī q.v.

Bāī-qarā Mīrzā ‘Umar-shaikhī, ut supra, son of Manṣūr and Fīrūza—particulars 257; his brother Ḥusain, and sons Wais and Iskandar q.v.

Bairām Beg2887—☛ reinforces Bābur from Balkh (918) 359; serving Najm S̤ānī 360.

Bairām Khān Bahārlū-Qarā-qūīlūq Turkmān (Akbar’s Khān-i-khānān), son of Saif-‘alī—his ancestry 91 n. 3, 109 n. 5 (where for “father” read “grandfather”); ☛ mention of a witness of his assassination 348; quotation of his remarks on Ḥasan Khān Mewātī 523 n. 3; [♰968 AH.-1561 AD.].

Bairām-sult̤ān Begīm Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Ḥusain and Mīnglī—particulars 266; her husband ‘Abdu’l-lāh Andikhūdī, their son Barka q.v.

Bāī-sunghar Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī, ut supra, son of Maḥmūd and Pasha—particulars 47, 110-112; succeeds in Samarkand (900) 52, 86; withstands The Khān (Maḥmūd) 52; the khut̤ba read for him in Bābur’s lands 52; his man surrenders Aūrā-tīpā 55-6; his favouritism incites the Tarkhān rebellion (901) 38, 61; escapes from Tarkhān imprisonment 62, 86; defeated by his half-brother ‘Alī 38, 63; prosperous (902) 65; moves against ‘Alī 65; retires before Bābur 66; at grips with him 67; asks Shaibānī’s help (903) 73; goes to Khusrau Shāh 74; made ruler in Ḥiṣār 93, 5, 6, 261; murdered (905) 110; his death referred to 50, 112; his pen-name ‘Ādilī 111; his sister’s marriage 41; his brother Mas‘ūd, his guardian Ayūb q.v.; [♰905 AH.-1499 AD.].

Bāī-sunghar Mīrzā Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid, son of Shāh-rukh—his servant Yūsuf Andijānī 4; [♰837 AH.-1433-4 AD.].

Balkhī falīz-kārī—grows melons in Āgra (935) 686.

Bāltū—rescues Khalīfa’s son Muḥibb-i-‘alī (933) 550.

Mullā Banā’ī—Maulānā Jamālu’d-dīn Bana’ī—in Khwāja Yaḥyā’s service and seen by Bābur (901) 64, in Shaibānī’s (906) 136, in Bābur’s 64, 136; particulars 286-7; given the Herī’s authors to loot (913) 328; Bābur recalls a joke of his (935) 648; two of his quatrains quoted 137; his musical composition 286, 292; [murdered 918 AH. -1512 AD.].

Banda-i-‘alī, dāroghā of Karnān—pursues Bābur from Akhsī (908) 178-9, 180, 181.

Banda-i-‘alī Yāragī Mughūl, son of Ḥaidar Kūkūldāsh—sent to reinforce Bābur (904) 101; in the van at Sar-i-pul (906) 139; his mistimed zeal (908) 176; his son-in-law Qāsim Beg qūchīn q.v.

Bāqī Beg Chaghānīānī, Qībchāq Turk—his influence on Mas‘ūd Mīrān-shāhī (901) 57, (903) 95; defends Ḥiṣār for him (901) 58; acts against him (902) 71; joins Bābur (910) 48, 188-9; advises sensibly 190, 197; leaves his family with Bābur’s 191; dislikes Qaṃbar-i-‘alī Silākh 192; helps his brother Khusrau to make favourable terms with Bābur 192-3; quotes a couplet on seeing Suhail 195; his Mughūls oppose Khusrau 197; mediates for Muqīm Arghūn (910) 199; Bābur acts on his advice 230-1, 239, (911) 246, 249; particulars 249-50; dismissed towards Hindūstān 250; killed on his road 231, 251; his son Muḥammad-i-qāsim and grandson(?) Aḥmad-i-qāsim q.v.; [♰911 AH.-1505-6 AD.].

Bāqī Gāgīānī Afghān—his caravan through the Khaibar (911) 250.

Bāqī (khīz)ḥīz—opposes Bābur (908) 174, 396.

Khwāja Bāqī, son of Yaḥyā son of Aḥrārī—murdered 128; [♰906 AH.-1500 AD.].2888

Bāqī Beg Tāshkindī, shaghāwal and (later) mīng-bāshī (= hazārī)—sent to Balkh with promise of head-money (932) 463, 546; on service (934) 590, 601, 2; reports from Aūd (Oudh) (935) 679; on service with the Aūd (Oudh) army 684, 5; leave given him for home 685.

Bāqī Tarkhān, Arghūn Chīngīz-khānid, son of ‘Abdu’l-‘alī and a daughter of Aūrdū-būghā—particulars 38, 40; consumes the Bukhārā revenues (905) 121; defeated by Shaibānī 124; occupies Qarshī (qy. Kesh) (906) 135; plans to join Bābur 138; goes to Shaibānī and dies in misery 40.

Bārāq Khān, Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid—mentioned in the genealogy of Yūnas 19.

Bārāq Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-Shaibān Chīngīz-khānid, son of Sīūnjuk—at Jām (934) 622.

Sayyid Barka Andikhūdī, Tīmūr’s exhumation of his body 266 n. 4.

Sayyid Barka Andikhūdī, descendant of the last-entered, son of ‘Abdu’l-lāh—particulars 266; serving Bābur (917) 266.

Bār-mal Īdrī—his force at Kānwa (933) 562.

Bā-sa‘īd Tarkhānī, see Abū-sa‘īd Tarkhānī.

Basant Rāo—killed by (Bābā Qashqa’s brother?) Kūkī in the battle of the Ghogrā 673; [♰935 AH.-1529 AD.].

Bat̤almīūs (Ptolemy)—mentioned as constructor of an observatory 79.

Sult̤ān Bāyazīd2889—urges attack on the Afrīdī (925) 411, 412.

Shaikh Bāyazīd, Farmūlī Afghān—acts for his dead brother Muṣt̤afa2890 (932) 527; waits on Bābur and receives Aūd (Oudh) 527; on service 530; in Aūd (933) 544; his loyalty tested (934) 589; with Bīban, opposing Bābur 594, 598-601, 2, (935) 638; serving Maḥmūd Lūdī against Bābur 652, 673; Bābur resolves to crush him and Bīban 677-8; mentioned 679, 692; takes Luknūr(?) 681, App. T; action continued against him 681, 2, 5; his comrade Bīban q.v.; [♰937 AH.-1531 AD.].

Shaikh Bāyazīd Itārachī Mughūl, brother of Aḥmad Taṃbal—holding Akhsī for Jahāngīr (908) 170; sends a force against Pāp 171; receives Bābur in Akhsī 171-2; made prisoner against Bābur’s wish 173; escapes 175; reported as sending Yūsuf dāroghā to Bābur’s hiding-place 182.

Bega Begīm (1), Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Ḥusain and Pāyanda—particulars 266; [♰ before Ḥusain 911 AH.-1505 AD.].

Bega Begīm (2), Mīrān-shāhī ut supra, daughter of Aūlūgh Beg Kābulī—her marriage with Muḥammad Ma‘ṣūm Bāī-qarā (902) 264.

Bega Begīm (3), Mīrān-shāhī ut supra, daughter of Mahmud and Khān-zāda II—betrothed to Ḥaidar Bāī-qarā (901) 48, 61, 263; married (903) 48; their child 263.

Bega Begīm (4), Shāh-rukhī ut supra, daughter of Bāī-sunghar (Shāh-rukhī)—her grandson’s marriage 265.

Bega Begīm (5),—Ḥājī Begīm—daughter of Yādgār T̤aghāī, wife of Humāyūn—her son Al-amān q.v.

Bega Begīm (6),—“the Bībī”—, see Mubārika.

Bega Sult̤ān Begīm Mervī, wife of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 261, 7, 8; divorced 268; her son Badī‘u’z-zamān q.v.; [893 AH.-1488 AD.].

Wais Lāghari’s Beg-gīna,—brings Bābur news of Al-amān’s birth (935) 621, 4.2891

The Begīms, Bābur’s paternal aunts—waited on by him 301, 616, 686.

Begīm Sult̤ān, see Sa‘ādat-bakht.

Begī Sult̤ān Āghācha, ghūnchachī of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 269.

Beg Mīrak Mughūl—brings Bābur good news (932) 466; on service (933) 548.

Beg Mīrak Turkmān, a beg of the Chīrās (Mughūl) tūmān—acts for Yūnas Khān 191; [♰832 AH.-1428-9 AD.].

Beg Tīlba Itārachī Mughūl, brother of Aḥmad Taṃbal—induces the Khān (Maḥmūd) not to help Bābur (903) 91, (905) 115; his light departure perplexes his brother 116; invites Shaibānī into Farghāna (908) 172. Bhupat Rao, son of Ṣalāḥu’d-dīn—killed at Kānwa 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Bīān Shaikh (Biyān)—his rapid journeys 621, 624; brings news of the battle of Jām (935) 622, 623 n. 3; the source of his news 624 n. 1; hurried back 624, 627.

Bīān-qulī—his son Khān-qulī q.v.

Malik Bīban Jilwānī?2892 Afghān—deserts ‘Ālam Khān Lūdī (932) 457 and n. 2; writes dutifully to Bābur 464; is presuming at an audience 466; deserts Bābur 468, 528; is defeated 528-9; with Bāyazīd, besieges Luknūr (933) 582; defeats Bābur’s troops 594, 598; opposes Bābur in person (934) 598-601; referred to as a rebel (935) 638; serving Maḥmūd Lūdī 652, 675; Bābur resolves to crush him 677-8; mentioned 679 n. 7, 692; takes Luknūr(?) 681, App. T; action taken against him 681, 2, 5; his constant associate Bāyazīd Farmūlī q.v.

Muḥammad Shāh, Bihār Khān Bihārī, Nūḥānī Afghān, son of Daryā Khān—declared independent in Bihār (932) 523; particulars 664; his widow Dūdū and son Jalāl q.v.; [♰934 AH.-1527 AD.].

Bihār Khān Lūdī (or Pahār Khān),2893 a Panj-āb amīr of Ibrāhīm Lūdī’s in 930 AH.—2894 defeated by Bābur (930) 208, 411 (where add “OR PAHĀR”), 578; a chronogram which fixes the date 575.

Bihjat, see Bahjat.

Bih-būd Beg—particulars 277, App. H, and Additional Notes under p. 277.

Ustād Kamālu’d-dīn Bih-zād—particulars 291; his training due to Nawā’ī 272; is instructed in drawing by Shaibānī (913) 329.

Rāja of Bījānagar (Vījāyanagar)—mentioned as ruling in 932 AH. 483.

Rāja Bikam-deo, named in the Hindūstān Revenue List.

Rāja Bīkam-chand, ut supra.

Rāja Bīkramājīt, ut supra.

Bī-khūb Sult̤ān (var. Nī- or Naī-khūb)? Aūzbeg-Shaibān—on Bābur’s service (934) 589, 602, (935) 651, 682; in the battle of the Ghogrā 669.

Rānā Bikramājīt, son of Sangā and Padmāwatī—negotiations for him with Bābur (934) ☛ 603, 612, (935) 612-3, 615, 616; pact made with him 616-7; possessor of Khiljī jewels 613; his mother Padmāwatī and her kinsman Asūk Mal q.v.

Rājā Bikramājīt Gūālīārī, Tūnwar Rājpūt—his ancestral fortress 477; his Koh-i-nūr (932) 477; his buildings 607-610 and nn.; his palace Bābur’s quarters (935) 607; his death (932) 477; [♰932 AH.-1526 AD.].

Rāja Bikramājīt (Vikramādītya)—his Observatory and Tables 79.

Bīrīm Deo Malinhās—on Bābur’s service (932) 462.

Rāja Bīr-sing Deo—named in the Revenue List (935) 521; his force at Kānwa (933) 562; serving Bābur 639.

Khalīfa’s Bīshka(?)—a woman who leaves Samarkand with Bābur’s mother (907) 147.

Bīshka Mīrzā Itārachī Mughūl—brings and receives gifts (925) 415, 416.

Brethren of Bābur—removal of their opposition to his aim on Hindūstān 478.

Buhlūl-i-ayūb Begchīk, son of Ayūb—Bābur warned against him (910) 190; joins Bābur 196; his misconduct 241, (911) 254.

Sult̤ān Buhlūl, Sāhū-khail Lūdī, Afghān—grandfather of Ibrāhīm 463; his treasure 470; his tomb visited by Bābur 476; his capture of Jūnpūr and Dihlī 481; his sons Sikandar and ‘Alau’u’d-dīn q.v.; [♰894 AH.-1488 AD.].

Pahlawān Buhlūl, tufang-andāzī—receives gifts (935) 633.

Būjka, a household bravo—on Bābur’s service (932) 458, 474, 534, (933) 545; his success at Bīāna 547.

Malik Bū Khān Dilah-zāk (Dilazāk) Afghān—receives gifts from Bābur (925) 394; brings tribute 409.

Būrān Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-Shaibān—his marriage with ‘Āyisha-sult̤ān Bāī-qarā 267; their son ‘Abdu’l-lāh q.v.

Shaikh Burhānu’d-dīn ‘Alī Qīlīch, Marghīnānī, author of the Hidāyat—his birthplace Rashdān 7; a descendant 29, 89; [♰593 AH.-1197 AD.].

Malik Bū-sa‘īd Kamarī—a guide (910) 230, 231; doubted 233.

Chaghatāī Khān, second son of Chīngīz Khān—his yūrt (camping-ground) occupied by his descendant Yūnas 12; mentioned in the genealogy of Yūnas 19; [♰638 AH.-1241 AD.].

Chākū Barlās, one of Tīmūr’s noted men—an ancestor of Muḥammad Barandūq 270; descent of his line to Akbar’s day 270 n. 2.

Rāī Chandrabān, Chauhān Rājpūt—killed at Kānwa (933) 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 A.D.].

Chāpūq (Slash-face), see Ibrāhīm Begchik.

Sult̤ān Aḥmad Chār-shaṃba—unhorses Muḥammad Mūmin2895 Bāī-qarā (902) 71; coincident occurrences of “Chār-shaṃba” 71.

Ismā‘īl Chilma (or Chalma), son of Ibrāhīm Jānī—writes particulars of the battle of Jām (935) 624.

Chilma Mughūl (or Chalma)—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335; rebels in Kābul (914) 345.

Chilma tāghchī Mughūl (? shoeing-smith)—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335.

Chīngīz Khān Mughūl—counted back to in Yunās Khān’s genealogy 12, 19; his capture of Samarkand (619 AH.-1222 AD.) 75; referred to concerning the name Qarshī 84; his Rules (Tūra) 155, 298; [♰624 AH.-1227 AD.].

Chīn Ṣūfī—defends Khwārizm for Ḥusain Bāī-qarā against Shaibāni (910) 242 n. 3, 244; killed in the surrender 255-6; [♰911 AH.-1505-6 AD.].

Chīn-tīmūr Sult̤ān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, son of Aḥmad—mentioned s.a. 912 as serving Bābur 318; succeeds against Ibrāhīm Lūdī’s advance (932) 467; in the right centre at Pānīpat 472, and at Kānwa (933) 565, 568 n. 3; rewarded 527, 578-9; on service (933) 540; at Chandīrī (934) 590; pursues Bīban and Bāyazīd 601, 602; in command against Balūchīs (935) 638, 676; met on a journey 639; writes of loss of reinforcement 675; ordered to Āgra 676; waits on Bābur 688; his brothers Manṣūr, Aīsān-tīmūr, Tūkhtā-būghā, Sa‘īd, Khalīl q.v.; [♰936 AH.-1530 AD.].

Chīqmāq Beg—sent on road-surveyor’s work (935) 629-30; the Mubīn quoted in connection with his orders 630; his clerk Shāhī q.v.

Chirkas qīzlār (Circassian girls), see Gulnār and Nār-gul.

Chūlī Begīm, Aẕāq Turkmān—particulars 265, 268; her husband Ḥusain Bāī-qarā and their daughter Sult̤ānīm q.v.; [♰before 911 AH.-1505 AD.].

Dāmāchī Mughūl—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335.

Dankūsī var. Nigarsī—killed at Kānwa 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Darwesh-i-‘alī—serving Humāyūn in Saṃbhal (934) 587.

Darwesh-i-‘alī Beg Chaghatāī, brother of Nawā’ī—particulars 275; in Bābur’s service (916) 275 and (917) 277; his poet-wife Āpāq Bega q.v.

Darwesh-i-‘alī pīāda and, later, tūfang-andāz—takes news of Hind-āl’s birth to Bābur (925) 385.

Darwesh-i ‘Alī Sayyid Mughūl—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335.

Darwesh Beg Tarkhān, Arghūn—particulars 39; [♰895 AH.-1490 AD.].

Darwesh Gāū Andijānī—put to death as seditious (899) 30.

Shaikh Darwesh Kūkūldāsh qūr-begī—at a household-party (906) 131; his death, successor in office, and avengeance 251, 253; [♰911 AH.-1505-6 AD.].

Darwesh-i-muḥammad Faẓlī—defeated (910) 241; degraded for not supporting a comrade (925) 405.

Darwesh-i-muḥammad Sārbān—Mīrzā Khān’s envoy to Bābur (925) 402; a non-drinker not pressed to disobey 406; replaces a china cup 407; enters Bābur’s service 408; over-pressed to break the Law 410; eats a strange fruit 410-1; at ma‘jūn-parties 412, (935) 683; asks a fruitful question (932) 470-1; in the right-centre at Pānī-pat 472 and at Kānwa (933) 565; recals a vow to Bābur 553; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 673.

Darwesh-i-muḥammad Tarkhān Arghūn Chingīz-khānid—particulars 38; envoy to the Andijān begs (899) 31; his part in the Tarkhān rebellion (901) 62; his death 38, 63; his relationship to Mīrān-shāhīs 13 n. 5, 33, 38, and his kinsman ‘Abdu’l-‘alī q.v.; [♰901 AH.-1496 AD.].

Darwesh Sult̤ān (? Chaghatāī)—on Bābur’s service (934) 599.

Daryā Khān Turk, son of Mīr (Shaikh) ‘Alī Beg—particulars 382; his sons Yār-i-ḥusain and Ḥasan q.v.

Daryā Khān Nūḥānī, Afghān—his sons Saīf Khān and Bihār Khān, his grandson Jalāl q.v.

Mullā Dāūd—killed serving Bābur 549; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Sayyid Dāūd Garm-serī—receives gifts (935) 633.

Dāūd Khān Lūdī—defeated by Bābur’s troops (932) 467-8.

Dāūd Sarwānī, see Rāwū’ī Sarwānī.

Daulat Khān, Yūsuf-khail Lūdī, Afghān, son of Tātār—is given Bhīra etc. 382, 383; concerning his lands, Author’s Note 383; ☛ a principal actor from 926 to 932 AH. 428; dreads Ibrāhīm Lūdī 439; ☛ proffers allegiance to Bābur (929?) 439, 440; ☛ his gift of an Indian fruit decides Bābur to help him 440, 503 n. 6; ☛ his action causes the return to Kābul of Bābur’s fourth expedition into Hindūstān 442; his strength and action 443-4; his rumoured attack on Lāhor (932) 451, 453; negotiates with ‘Ālam Khān (931?) 455-6; loses Milwat to Bābur (932) 459; his death 461; his sons ‘Alī, Apāq, Dilawār q.v.; his relations with Nānak 461 n. 3; [♰932 AH.-1526 A.D.].

Daulat-i-muḥammad Kūkūldāsh, see Qūtlūq-i-muḥammad.

Daulat-qadam?—his son Mīr Mughūl q.v.

Daulat-shāh Isfarāyinī, author of the Taẕkiratu’sh-shu‘arā—at Taẕkir‘atu’sh the battle of Chīkmān-sarāī (876) 46 n. 2; [♰895 AH.-1490 AD.?].

Daulat-sult̤ān Khānīm, Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, daughter of Yūnas Khān and Shāh Begīm—particulars 24; her long family separation (907) 149; meets her brother Aḥmad (908) 159; married as a captive by Tīmūr Aūz-beg (909) 24; rejoins Bābur (917) ib. and 358 n. 1; letters from her reach Bābur (925) 409; sends letters and gifts to him (932) 446.

Dāwā Khān, Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid—-mentioned in Yūnas Khān’s genealogy 19; [♰706 AH.-1306-7 AD.].

Dejal, the false Messiah 563 n. 1.

Deo Sult̤ān?, see Div.

Rāja Dharmankat Gūālīārī—stirs trouble (933) 539; lays siege to Gūālīār 557.

Dharm-deo—his force at Kānwa (933) 562.

Dilāwar Khān Yūsuf-khail Lūdī, Afghān, son of Daulat Khān—☛ ill-received by Ibrāhīm Lūdī (929?) 439; ☛ goes to Kābul to ask help from Bābur 439-40; imprisoned by his father (931) 442, 443; escapes and joins ‘Ālam Khān 455, 456; joins Bābur 457, 461; location of his mother’s family 462; does not sit in Bābur’s presence 466; entrusted by Bābur with care for the corpse of Ibrāhīm Lūdī 474 n. 1; in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 567 (here styled Khān-i-khānān); [♰946 AH.-1539 AD.].

Dil-dār Begīm (? Ṣālḥa-sult̤ān 3rd daughter of Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī and Pasha), wife of Bābur—her unborn child forcibly adopted (925) 347, and App. L; her son Alwar (Alūr)’s death (935) 689 n. 5; particulars 712-4; her sons Hind-āl and Alūr, her daughters Gul-rang, Gul-chihra and Gul-badan q.v.

Dilpat Rāo—killed at Kānwa 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Div Sult̤ān Rūmlū (or Deo)—recaptures Balkh (cir. 919) 363; particulars 635 n. 2; his servant describes the battle of Jām (935) 635-6.

Dīwa Hindū, son of Sīktū—waits on Bābur in Bhīra (925) 382; made prisoner and ransomed 399.

Dīwāna jāma-bāf—put to retaliatory death 73; [♰903 AH.-1497 AD.].

Bābā Dost—put in charge of Humāyūn’s Trans-Indus district (925) 391; conveys wine to Bābur’s camp (933) 551 (here sūchī).2896

Dost, son of Muḥammad Bāqir—drunk (925) 415.

Dost-anjū?2897 Shaikh, son of Bābā ‘Alī—left in charge of Ghaznī (911) 307.

Dost Beg Mughūl, son of Bābā Qashqa and brother (p. 588) of Shāh Muḥammad—at a social gathering and sent to Bhīra 388 (here muhrdār); made a dīwān (932) 476; in charge of Bīāna (933) 539 and made its shiqdār 579 (here Lord-of-the Gate); in the right centre at Kānwa 565, 569; waits on Bābur 581; pursues rebels (934) 601 (here Dost-i-muḥammad); in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 673; for his kinsmen see s.n. Bābā Qashqa. Khwāja Dost-i-khāwand—lets himself down over the wall of Qandahār (913) 343; at boat-parties (925) 385, 388; comes from Kābul to Āgra (933) 544; in the left-centre at Kānwa 565; ☛ sent on Bābur’s family affairs to Humāyūn in Badakhshān (934) 603; delayed in Kābul till Kāmrān’s arrival 618 and nn. 2-6; his letters reach Bābur (935) 618.

Dost-kīldī Mughūl—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335.

Dost-i-nāṣir Beg—Dost Beg—(Nāṣir’s Dost), son of Nāṣir—enters Bābur’s service (904) 103; on service (906) 131, (908) 163, 165; one of three standing by Bābur 166, 167, 396; with him at Akhsī 174, 396; one of the eight in the flight 177, 396; at the recapture of Kābul (912) 315; in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335, 338; at Tāshkīnt (918) ☛ 356 n. 1, ☛ 358, 396-7; opposing rebels (921) ☛ 364, 397; leading the left at Bajaur (925) 368 (here first styled Beg), 369, 370, 397; his revenue work 384; at wine parties 387, 388; at Parhāla 390; attacked by fever 394; his death and his burial at Ghaznī 395-6; his brother Mīrīm q.v.; particulars 395-7; [♰925 AH.-1519 AD.].

Dost Sar-i-pulī, pīāda and (later) kotwāl—attacks Bābur blindly (912) 316-7; wounded (913) 324; [♰913 AH.-1507 AD.].

Dost-i-yāsīn-khair—wrestles well with eight in successive (935) 653; 656.

Dūdū Bībī, widow of Bihār Khān Bihārī—news of her bringing her son to Bābur (935) 664; encouraging letters sent to her 665; Sher Khān Sūr her co-guardian for her son 664 n. 2; her son Jalālu’d-dīn Nuḥānī q.v.

Faghfūr Dīwān—on service (933) 551; his servants sent for fruit to Kābul (935) 687. Ḥai. MS. reads Maghfūr.

Fajji Gāgīānī, Afghān—guides Bābur’s first passage of the Khaibar (910) 229.

Fakhrū’n-nisā', daughter of Bābur and ‘Āyisha—died an infant 35-6, 136; [♰906 AH.-1500-1 AD.].

Faqī-i-‘alī—reprieved (914) 345; with Bābur and left in charge of Balkh (923) 463; ☛ left in charge of Qila‘i-z̤afar by Humāyūn (936) 695.

Farīd Khān Nuḥānī, Afghān, son of Naṣīr—writes dutifully to Bābur (935) 659.

Farīdūn, (an ancient Shāh of Persia)—mentioned in a verse 85.

Farīdūn-i-ḥusain Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, son of Ḥusain and Mīnglī—particulars 263, 269; [♰915 AH.-1509 AD.].

Farīdūn qabūzī—summoned by Bābur (935) 617.

Mullā Farrukh—placed on Bābur’s left at a feast (935) 631; gifts made to him 632.

Farrukh Arghūn—surrenders Qalāt-i-ghilzāī to Bābur (911) 248-9.

Mīrzā Farrūkh Aūghlāqchī, son of Ḥasan—mentioned for his qualities 279.

Farrukh-i-ḥusain Mīrzā, Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Ḥusain and Pāpā—particulars 264; [♰915 AH.-1509 AD.].

Farrukh-zād Beg—Bābur dismounts in his garden at Qandahār (913) 337.

Farūq, son of Bābur and Māhīm—his birth (932) announced to Bābur (933) 536, 689 n. 5; [933 AH.-1526-7 AD.].

Fatḥ Khān Sarwānī Khān-i-jahān, son of ‘Azim-humāyūn—is escorted to Bābur (932) 534; well-received (933) 537; his hereditary title superseded ib.; invited to a wine-party ib.; serving Maḥmūd Lūdī (935) 652; his son Maḥmūd q.v.;? a kinsman Daud q.v.

Fāt̤ima-sūlt̤ān Āghā Mughūl—first wife of ‘Umar Shaikh Mīrān-shāhī 17, 24; their son Jahāngīr q.v.

Fāt̤ima-sultān Begīm Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Ḥusain and Mīnglī—particulars 266; her husband Yādgar-i-farrukh Mīrān-shāhī q.v.; [♰before 911 AH.-1505 AD.].

Fāẓil Kūkūldāsh—serving Shāh Beg Arghūn (910) 238; ☛ a good account of him named 443; his death a crushing grief to Shāh Beg ib.; [♰930 AH.-1514 AD.].

Fāẓil Tarkhān—a Turkistān merchant created a Tarkhān by Shaibānī, [Author’s Note] 133; his death ib.; [906 AH.-1500 AD.].

Faẓlī, see Darwesh-i-muḥammad.

Ferdinand the Catholic—his action in 1504 (910 AH.) 187 n. 2 (Erskine).

Fīrūza Begīm Qānjūt, wife of Manṣūr Bāī-qarā her Tīmūrīd ancestry 256; her children Bāī-qarā (II), Ḥusain, Ākā and Badka q.v.; [♰874 AH.-1469-70 AD.].

Fīrūz Khān Mewatī—reprieved (932) 477-8.

Fīrūz Khān, Sārang-khānī, Afghān—on Ibrāhīm Lūdī’s service 527; waits on Bābur (932) 527, and on his service 530.

Sult̤ān Fīrūz Shāh, Tūghlūq Turk—his servants’ dynasties 481, 482; his relations with the rulers of Mālwā 482 (where in n. 3 for “Gujrāt” read Mālwā); [♰790 AH.-1388 AD.].

Fīrūz Shāh Beg—his grandson ‘Abdu’l-khalīq q.v.

Gadāī Balāl—rejoins Bābur (913) 330-1.

Gadāī bihjat—misbehaves (925) 414.

Gadāī T̤aghāī—shares a confection (925) 375; at social gatherings 385, 7, 8, 400, 412; rides carrying a full pitcher 386; out with Bābur 404; removes a misbehaving namesake 414.

Gauhar-shād Begīm, wife of Shāh-rukh Tīmūrid—Bābur visits her college and tomb (912) 305; [♰861 AH.-1457 AD.].

Gauhar-shad Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Abū-sa‘īd—visited by Bābur (935) 616.

Mīr Gesū—finds chronogram identical with Shaikh Zain’s 575.

Apāq Ghāzī Khān Turk, son of Mīr (Shaikh) ‘Alī Beg—particulars 382; his brothers Bābā Kābulī and Daryā Khān, his son ‘Alī and his relation Naz̤ar-i-‘alī Turk q.v.

Apāq Ghāzī Khān Yūsuf-khail Lūdī Afghān, son of Daulat Khān—☛ arrested by Bābur (930) 442; moves against Bābur (932) 451, 453; not trusted 455; agrees to help ‘Ālam Khān 455-6; receives him ill on defeat 457-8; pursued for Bābur 458, 460, 461, 462, 463; Bābur’s reproach for his abandonment of his family 460-1; his forts in the Dūn 462; his library less valuable than was expected by Bābur 460; his kinsman Ḥāji Khān and his own son 465.

Ghiyās̤, a buffoon 400 (where erroneously Ghīāṣ).

Mīr Ghiyās̤, building entrusted to him (935) 642.

Mīr Ghiyās̤ T̤aghāī Kūnjī Mughūl, brother of ‘Alī-dost—particulars 28; enters the Khān (Maḥmūd)’s service (899) 28, 32; [♰ before 914 AH.-1507-8 AD.].

Amīr Ghiyās̤u’d-dīn, ☛ patron of Khwānd-amīr and supposed ally of Bābur—killed in Herāt (927) 432.

Ghiyās̤u’d-dīn, nephew of Khwānd-amīr—☛ conveys the keys of Qandahār to Bābur (928) 432, 435, 436.

Sult̤ān Ghīyāṣu’d-dīn Balban—Bābūr visits his tomb (932) 475; [♰ 686 AH.-1287 AD.].

Ghiyās̤u’d-dīn qūrchī—takes campaigning orders to Junaid Barlās (935) 628; returns to Court 636; takes orders to the Eastern amirs 638.

Ghulām-i-‘alī—returns from taking Bābur’s three articles to Naṣrat Shāh (935) 676.

Ghulām bacha, a musician—heard by Bābur in Herāt (912) 303.

Ghulām-i-shādī, a musician—particulars 292; his younger brother Ghulām bacha q.v.

Mullā Ghulām Yasāwal—makes an emplacement for the Ghāzī mortar (935) 670; sent to collect the Bihār tribute 676.

Ghūrī Barlās—on Bābur’s service (905) 125; in the left wing at Qandahār (913) 334; wounded 336; [♰919 AH.-1513 AD.].

Gūjūr Khān—ordered on service (935) 638.

Gul-badan Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Bābur and Dil-dār—☛ her birth (929 or 930) and her book (cir. 995) 441; her journey to Āgra (935) 650 n. 2; ☛ her parentage 712; [♰1011 AH.-1603 AD.].

Gul-barg Barlās Turk, daughter of Khalīfa—☛ betrothed(?) to Shāh Ḥasan Arghūn (924-5) 366; ☛ married (930) 443.

Gul-chihra Begīm, full sister of Gul-badan supra—her marriage with Tūkhtā-būghā Chaghatāī 705 n. 1, 708; her parentage 712; ☛ perhaps the mother of Salīma Chaqānīanī 713.

Gul-rang Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Bābur and Dil-dār—☛ born in Khwāst (920) 363; ☛ married to Aīsān-tīmūr Chaghatāī (937) 705 n. 1, 708; parentage 712.

Gul-rukh Begīm Begchīk, wife of Bābur—☛ with Bābur on the Trans-oxus campaign (916-20) 358; particulars 712; her sons Kāmrān and ‘Askarī and her brother(?) Sult̤ān ‘Alī Mīrzā T̤aghāī q.v.

Mīrak Gūr dīwān (or Kūr) captured by Shaibānī (913) 328.

Shaikh Abū’l-fatḥ Gūran (G’hūran)—serving Bābur (932) 526, 528-9, (933) 539, 567, (934) 590; in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 567; host to Bābur in Kūl (Koel) (934) 587; takes lotus-seeds to him 666; sends him grapes (935) 686; given Gūālīār (936) 688, 690; ☛ holds it till Bābur’s death 692 n. 1.

Ḥabība-sult̤ān Begīm Arghūn, wife of Aḥmad Mīrān-shāhī—particulars 36, 37; arranges her daughter Ma‘ṣūma’s marriage with Bābur (912) 306, (913) 330.

Ḥābība-sult̤ān Khānīsh Dūghlāt, daughter of Muḥammad Ḥusain and Khūb-nigār Chaghatāī—her marriages 21-2; depends on Bābur (917) 22.

Ḥāfiz̤ Ḥājī, a musician—heard by Bābur in Herī (912) 303.

Ḥāfiz̤ kabar-kātib—his brother conveys Bābur’s earliest Dīwān to Samarkand (925) 482; at a feast (935) 631, 632.

Ḥāfiz̤ Mīrak—composes an inscription (913) 343.

Ḥāfiz̤-i-muḥammad Beg Dūldāī Barlās—particulars 25; in Aūrā-tīpā (893) 17, 25; ☛ joint-guardian of Mīrzā Khān (905) 25, 122; his death 26; his sons Muḥammad mīskīn and T̤āhir q.v.; his (?) Chār-bāgh 108; [♰cir. 909-10 AH.-1504 AD.].

Khwāja Shamsu’d-dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz̤ Shīrāzī—parodied (910) 201; [♰791 AH.-1389 AD.].

Ḥāfiz̤ Tāshkīndī—gifts made to him (935) 632.

Haibat Khān karg-andāz, Hindūstānī—leaves Bābur (933) 557.

Haibat Khān Samana’ī—☛ perhaps the provider of matter to fill the lacuna of 936 AH., 693.

Mullā Ḥaidar—his sons ‘Abdu’l-minān and Mūmin q.v.

Ḥaidar ‘Alamdār—on Bābur’s service (925) 383, (926) 421.

Ḥaidar-‘alī Sult̤ān Bajaurī—obeys custom in testing his dead mother’s virtue 212; ☛ his Gibrī fort taken by Bābur (924) 366, 7, 8.

Ḥaidar Kūkūldāsh Yāragī Mughūl, Maḥmūd Khān’s “looser and binder”—defeated 35, (900) and killed 52, 111-2; his garden 54; his son Banda-i-‘alī and a descendant (?) Ḥusain Yārajī q.v.

Ḥaidar-Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Ḥusain and Pāyanda-sult̤ān—his Mīrān-shāhī betrothal at Ḥiṣār (901) 48, 61; rejoins his father opportunely (903) 261; particulars 263; his wife Bega q.v.; [♰908 AH.-1502-3 AD.].

Muḥammad Ḥāidar Mīrzā Kūrkān Dūghlāt, author of the Tārīkh-i-rashīdī—particulars 21-2,2898 348; ☛ takes refuge with Bābur (916) 350; ☛ his first battle (917) 353; ☛ ill when Kūl-i-malik was fought (918) 357-8; goes to Sa‘īd Khān in Kāshgar 22, 362; on Sa‘īd’s service (933) 590, (936) 695-6; [♰958 AH.-1551 AD.].

Ḥāidar-i-qāsim Beg Kohbur Chaghatāī—father of Abū’l-qāsim, Aḥmad-i-qāsim and Qūch (Qūj) Beg q.v.

Ḥaidar-qulī—on Aūzūn Ḥasan’s service (904) 102.

Ḥaidar-qulī, servant of Khwāja Kalān—on service (932) 467; mentioned by Bābur in writing to the Khwāja (935) 648.

Ḥaidar rikābdār—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; his son Muḥammad ‘Alī q.v.

Ḥaidar tāqī—his garden near Kābul 198 n. 1.

Ḥājī Ghāzī Manghīt—sent to help Bābur (904) 101 where in n. 3 add Vambéry’s Note 29 to the references.

Ḥājī (‘Alī) Khān Yūsuf-khail Lūdī Afghān—acting with ‘Ālam Khān Lūdī (932) 445-6-7.

Ḥājī pīāda—killed at the Lovers'-cave 68; [902 AH.-1497 AD.].

Ḥājī Pīr bakāwal—negociates for Ḥusain Bāī-qarā with the Ḥiṣār begs (901) 61.

Halāhil—on service (925) 391, (925) 638.

Ḥalwāchī Tarkhān Arghūn—engages Bābur’s left wing at Qandāhar (913) 336.

Sayyid Mīr Hamah—gets the better of two traitors (932-3) 546; receives head-money (933) 546; in the right wing at Kānwa 566.

Ḥamīd Khān Khāṣa-khaīl Sārang-khānī Lūdī—opposes Bābur (932) 465; defeated by Humāyūn 466; defeated (633) 540; sent out of the way before Kānwa 547.

Hāmūsī, son of Dīwa—sent to make a Hindū pact with Sangā’s son (935) 616.

Amīr Ḥamza—a poem mentioned imitating that in which he is celebrated 280; [♰3 AH.-625 AD.].

Ḥamza Beg qūchīn, son of Qāsim and a daughter of Banda-i-‘alī—his wedding gifts to Bābur on his marriage with Khalīfa’s daughter (925) 400; joins Bābur on summons from Qūndūz 406, 410.

Ḥamza Bī Mangfīt Aūzbeg—defeated, when raiding, by Bābur’s men (910) 195.

Ḥamza Khān, Malik of ‘Alī-shang—made over to the avengers of blood (926) 425; [♰926 AH.-1520 AD.].

Ḥamza Sult̤ān Aūzbeg—his various service 58, 59, 131; defeated by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (901) 58; enters Bābur’s service 59; given leave 64; his Mughūls rebel against Bābur (904) 105; serving Shaibānī (906) 131, 139, (910) 244; ☛ holding Ḥiṣār and comes out against Bābur (916) 352; defeated at Pul-i-sangīn and put to death by Bābur (917) 18, 37, 262, 353; his defeat announced to Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī 354; his sons in the battle of Jām (935) 622; his sons ‘Abdu’l-lat̤īf and Mamāq q.v.; his Mīrān-shāhī wife 37; [♰917 AH.-1511 AD.].

Ḥaq-dād, headman of Dūr-namā—makes offering of his garden to Bābur (926) 420.

Ḥaq-naz̤ar—finds the body of his nephew (Nūyān) Kūkūldāsh (907) 152.

Ḥaq-naz̤īr chapā—to punish his raid, beyond the power of the Herāt M[i]rzās (912) 300.

Ḥarūnu’r-rashīd Khalīfa—his second son Māmūn Khalīfa (d. 218 AH.) 79; [♰193 AH.-809 AD.].

Ustād Ḥasan-i-‘alī—orders given for the completion of work he had begun in Kābul (935) 646-7.

Ḥasan-i-‘alī Chaghatāī—receives a pargana (935) 689.

Ḥasan-i-‘alī Jalāīr Chaghatāī, son of ‘Alī (q.v.)—particulars 278, 286; meets Bābur (912) 299; his poet-sister 286 n. 1; [♰925 AH.-1519 AD.].

Sayyid Ḥasan Aūghlāqchī Mughūl, son of Murād—particulars 279; serving Bābur (917) 279; his son Farrukh q.v.; [♰918 AH.-1522 AD.].

Ḥasan Barlās—his rough dealing with Bābur (910) 194.

Shāh Ḥasan Beg Arghūn, son of Shāh (Shuja‘) Beg—quarrels with his father and goes to Bābur (924) 365, ☛ 430; his betrothal (?) to Gul-barg (924-6) 366 and marriage (930) 443; in the left centre at Bajaur (925) 369; sent to claim ancient lands of the Turks 383-4; is successful 388; out with Bābur 395; gifts to him ib. 414, 584; social matters 400, 7, 10, 12; Bābur sends him a quatrain 401; (see s.n. Shāh-zāda), ☛ a principal actor between 930 and 932 AH. 427; his attack on Multān 437, 442 and s.n. ‘Askarī; accedes in Sind (930) 443; reads the khut̤ba for Bābur 430; his envoy to Bābur (935) 632; [♰962 AH.-1555 AD.].

Ḥasan Chalabī—T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawī’s envoy to Bābur (935), arrives late 631, 632 n. 3, 641; Bābur accepts excuse for his delay 649; Bābur’s envoy accompanies him on his return 641; his servant gives Bābur’s envoy an account of the battle of Jām 649.

Ḥasan-dīkcha of Akhsī—supports Bābur (904) 101.

Ḥasan-i-khalīfa, son of Niz̤āmu’d-dīn ‘Alī—sent on service 679.

Ḥasan Khān Bārīwāl Hindūstānī—leaves Bābur for Sangā (933) 557.

Ḥasan Khān Daryā-khānī, son of Daryā Khān son of Mīr ‘Alī Beg—on service for Bābur (933) 582; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 669; pursuing rebels 678.

Ḥasan-i-makan, loses Kandār to Sangā (932) 529-30.

Ḥasan Khān Mewātī—his change of capital (930) 578; his opposition to Bābur (932) 523 and n. 3, (933) 545, 547; his force at Kānwa 562 and death 573; Bairām Khān’s remarks on him 523 n. 3; his son Nāhar q.v.; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Ḥasan Nabīra, grandson of Muḥammad Sīghal—waits on Bābur (902) 66; captures his elder brother (903) 72; leaves ‘Alī for Mīrzā Khān (905) 122; goes as envoy (?) to Bābur from Mīrzā Khān (925) 415; his elder brother Muhammad Qāsim Nabīra q.v.

Mullā Ḥasan ṣarrāf—given custody of gifts for Kābul (932) 525.

Ḥasan sharbatchī—helps Bāī-sunghar Mīrān-shāhī’s escape (901) 62.

Ḥasan-i-yaq‘ūb Beg, son of Nūyān Beg?—particulars 26; supports Bābur (899) 30, 31; his appointments 32; shows disloyalty (900) 43; his death 44; his sobriquet Nūyān’s Ḥasan 273; [♰900 AH.-1494 AD.].

Malik Hast Janjūha—receives an envoy from Bābur (925) 380; serving Bābur 380, 389; his injuries from Hātī Kakar 391.

Hātī Kakar—particulars 387; his misdeeds provoke punishment (925) 387, 9, 91; abandons Parhāla 390; sends Bābur tribute and is sent an envoy 391-2; referred to 452.

‘Abdu’l-lāh Hātifī, nephew of Jāmī—particulars 288.

Ḥātīm qūrchī—promoted to be qūr-begī (911) 252; in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335.

Hazārāspī, see Pīr-i-muḥammad.

Henry VII of England—his Intercursus malus contemporary with 910 AH. 187 n. 2.

Henry of Navarre—☛ his difficulties, as to creed, less than those of Bābur in 917 AH.-1511 AD., 356.

Hilālī, see Badru’d-dīn Hilālī.

Abū’l-nāṣir Muḥammad Hind-āl Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Bābur and Dil-dār—his pre-natal adoption (925) 374; meaning of his name Hind-āl 385; gifts to him or his servants 522, (935) 633, 642; the Wālidiyyah-risāla and Hindūstān verses sent to him 642; under summons to Hind 645, ☛ 696; ☛ sent by Humāyūn to Qila‘-i-z̤afar (936) 695; referred to 697; ☛ waits on his father in Lāhor 699; ☛ his dying father’s wish to see him (937) 708; his escort of Bābur’s family in 946 AH. referred to 710; [♰958 AH.-1551 AD.].

Hindī—Mindī,—Mahndī, see Mahndī.

Hindū Beg qūchīn—leaves ‘Alī Mīrān-shāhī for Mīrzā Khān (905) 122; sent to raid Panj-kūra (925) 374; in Bhīra 386-8; leaves it 399; out with Bābur 403; serving under Humāyūn (932) 465-6, 528-9; in the right wing at Pānīpat 472 and at Kānwa (933) 566 and n. 2, 569; escorts Māhīm from Kābul (935) 687; sent to Saṃbhal ib.; waits on Bābur ib. and n. 2, 689; his mosque in Saṃbhal 687 n. 2. ☛ Hulākū Khān Aīl-khānī (Īl-khānī)—referred to 79; [♰663 AH.-1264 AD.].

Ḥul-hul Anīga—a woman drinker 417.

Naṣīru’d-dīn Muḥammad Humāyūn Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Bābur and Māhīm—his birth (913) 344; his mother’s parentage 344 n. 3, ☛ 712-3; death of elder brethren referred to 374; a Trans-indus district given to him (925) 391; carried in haste to meet his father 395; makes a good shot 417; prefers not to go to Lamghān (926) 421; ☛ appointed to Badakhshān (927) 427; with his father in the Trans-oxus campaign (916-20) 358; his delay in joining the Hindūstān expedition (932) 444, 446 n. 3, 447; a desertion from him 545; first sight of a rhinoceros 451; books given to him at Milwat 460; his story-teller killed ib.; a successful first military affair 466-7; on service 471; in the right wing at Pānīpat 472; sent to take possession of Āgra 475, 476, 526; becomes owner of the Koh-i-nūr 477; receives Saṃbhal and other gifts 522, 7, 8; appointed against the Eastern Afghāns, his campaign 534, 544; mentioned in connection with the title ‘Az̤am-humāyūn (933) 537; his return to Āgra 544; his dislike of wine 545; in the right wing at Kānwa 566, 568-9; his departure for Kābul (and Badakhshān) 579-80; misappropriates treasure 583, ☛ 695 n. 1; a daughter born (934 or 5) 618; his father’s messenger, detained a year by him, arrives in Āgra (935) 621, 626; birth of a son (934) 621, 624-5; letter to him from his father quoted 624-27; ordered to act with Kāmrān against the Aūzbegs 625-6; news of his action reaches Bābur 639, 640; gifts sent to him on his son’s birth and with them the Wālidiyyah-risāla and the Hindustān poems 642; topics of a letter to him enumerated 645; the letter despatched 649; gifts from him to his father 687; a family tradition that his father wished to abdicate in his favour 689 n. 5; ☛ misery of his creation 692; concerning a plan to set him aside from the succession 644 n. 4, 688 n. 2, ☛ 692-3, ☛ 702-7; deserts his post in Badakhshān (936) 694; its sequel 695, 6, 7-8; ordered by his father to Saṃbhal 697; his illness and his father’s self-surrender (937) 701-2; goes back to Saṃbhal 702; summoned and is declared successor at his father’s last audience 708; [♰963 AH.-1556 AD.].2899

Bāba Ḥūsain—his murder of Aūlūgh Beg Shāh-rukhī (853) 85 and n. 3.2900

Maulānā Shaikh Ḥusain—particulars 283-4.

Ḥūsain Aīkrak (?) (or Ḥasan)—receives the Chīn-āb country from Bābur (925) 386; misbehaves (926) 423.

Sayyīd Ḥusain Akbar Tīrmīẕī, a maternal relative of Maṣ‘ūd Mīrān-shāhī—attacks the fugitive Bāī-sunghar (903) 74; out with Bābur (910) 234; suspected 239; in the left wing at Qandahār (913) 334.

Sult̤ān Ḥusain Arghūn Qarā-kūlī—particulars 40; leaves Samarkand with the Tarkhāns (905) 121; fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139; his great-niece Ma‘ṣūma a wife of Bābur 36.

Ḥusain Āqā Sīstānī—in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 566.

Ḥusain ‘aūdī, lutanist of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 292; owed his training to ‘Alī-sher Nawā’ī 272.

Shāh Ḥusain bakhshī—brings Bābur news of a success (935) 685.

Khwāja Ḥusain Beg, brother of Aūzūn Ḥasan—particulars 26; his daughter a wife of ‘Umar Shaikh 24, 146 n. 3; leaves Samarkand with the Tarkhāns (905) 121; fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139; one of eight in the flight from Akhsī (908) 177 (here Khwāja Ḥusainī); his lameness causes him to leave Bābur 178; sends Lāhor revenues to Kābul (932) 446; waits on Bābur 458; on service (933) 549 (here Mullā Ḥusain); in the left centre at Kānwa 566.

Shāh Ḥusain chuhra, a brave of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—left in Balkh (902) 70.

Sult̤ān Ḥusain Dūghlāt—joins Bābur (901) 58-9; conspires against Taṃbal (907) 154; sent by The Khān (Maḥmūd) to help Bābur (908) 161.

Ḥusain Ghainī—a punitive force sent against him (911) 253.

Ḥūsain-i-ḥāsan—out with Bābur (925) 403; killed and avenged 404, 405; [♰925 AH.-1519 AD.].

Maulānā Shāh Ḥusain Kāmī, a poet—particulars 290.

Ḥūsain Kashifī—his omission from Bābur’s list of Herāt celebrities 283 n. 1.

Ḥusain Khān Lashkar (?) Wazīr—writes from Naṣrat Shāh, accepting Bābur’s three articles (935) 676.

Sult̤ān Ḥusain Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Manṣūr—defeats Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī (865) 46, 259 (876) 260; his relations with Nawā’ī 33, 272; his campaign against Khusrau Shāh (901) 57, 58-61, 130; his dissensions with his sons 61, 69, (902) 68-70, 260, (903) 94-5; his capture of Herī (875) compared with Bābur’s of Samarkand (906) 134-5; does not help Bābur against Shaibānī 138, 145; asks Bābur’s help against him (910) 190-1, (911) 255; his death 256, and burial 293; particulars of his life and court 256-292: —personal 256 —amīrs 270 —ṣadrs 280 —wazīrs, etc. 281 —poets 286 —artists 291 his dealings with Ẕū’n-nūn Arghūn and Khusrau Shāh 274; his kindness to Maṣ’ūd Mīrān-shāhī (903) 93, 95; his disorderly Finance Office 281-2; delays a pilgrim 284; his copyist 291; his splendid rule 300; his buildings 305; his relation Nuyān Beg Tīrmīẕī 273; Bābur writes to him in ignorance of his death (912) 294; Bābur’s comments on him 60, 191, 225; a poem mistakenly attributed to him 281; [♰911 AH.-1506 AD.].

Sult̤ān Ḥusain Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī, son of Maḥmūd and a Tīrmīzī wife—his death (æt. 13) in his father’s lifetime, 47, 110.

Mīr Ḥusain mu‘ammā’ī Nishāpūrī—particulars 288 and n. 7; [♰904 AH.-1498-9 AD.].

Ḥusain Khān Nūḥānī Afghān—holding Rāprī and not submissive to Bābur (932) 523; abandons it 530; takes it again (933) 557; drowned in flight 582; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Sult̤ān Ḥusain Qānjūt, maternal grandfather of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—his Tīmūrid descent 256 n. 5.

Shāh Mīr Ḥusain Qārlūq—waits on Bābur (925) 403 (here var. Ḥasan) 409; sent to Bajaur (926) 422; meets Bābur on his road 423; in charge of impedimenta (932) 458; allowed to raid from Milwat 464; fighting for Bābur 468, 471; in the left wing at Pānīpat 472; posted in Jūnpūr (933) 544.

Ḥusain-i Shaikh Tīmūr—particulars 273 (where in n. 2 read grand(“father”)).

Sult̤ān Ḥusain Sharqī—rise and fall of his dynasty 481; [♰905 AH.-1500 AD.].

Shāh Ḥusain Yāragī Mughūl Ghanchī—in the left wing at Pānīpat (932) 472, and at Kānwa (933) 567; on service 530.

Ḥusamu’d-dīn ‘Alī Barlās, son of Khalīfa—on service (934) 601; waits on Bābur (935) 687.

Ibn-i-ḥusāin Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Ḥusain and Pāpā—parentage 265; joins his brothers against Shaibānī (912) 296; fails in etiquette when meeting Bābur 297; his place at a reception 298; goes back to his districts Tūn and Qāīn 301; mentioned 331; the poet Āhī his servant 289; [♰919 AH.-1513 AD.].

Ibrāhīm Ātā (Father Abraham)—his tomb in Turkistān 159.

Ibrāhīm Beg Begchīk, brother of Ayūb—in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334.

Mīr Ibrāhīm Begchīk—fights and kills a guardian of ‘Umar Shaikh Mīrān-shāhī (cir. 870) 25.

Ibrāhīm Chaghatāī—joins Ḥusain Bāī-qarā 279,2901 689 n. 4.

Ibrāhīm chuhra—conveys a quatrain of Bābur’s (925) 401.

Ibrāhīm Dūldāī Barlās—particulars 274.

Sult̤ān Ibrāhīm Ghaznawī—his tomb 218; [♰492 AH.-1098 AD.].

Ibrāhīm-i-ḥusain Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Ḥusain—particulars 265; on his father’s service (901) 57; receives Balkh (902) 70; besieged (903) 93-4; [♰910 AH.-1504-5 AD.].

Ibrāhīm Jānī—fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (906) 139; one of three Ibrāhīms killed there 141, 624 n. 1; his son Chilma q.v.; [♰906 AH.-1501 AD.].

Mīr Ibrāhīm qānūnī—waits on Bābur (935) 605; his kinsman Yūnas-i-‘alī q.v.

Sult̤ān Ibrāhīm Sahu-khail Lūdī Afghān, son of Sikandar—Bābur sends him a goshawk and asks for the ancient lands of the Turk (925) 385; ☛ co-operation against him proffered to Bābur by Sangā 426, 529; ☛ a principal actor in the years of the lacuna from 926 to 932 AH. 427; ☛ no indication of Bābur’s intending to attack him in 926 AH. 429; his misdoing leads to appeal for Bābur’s help (929) 439; defeats his uncle ‘Ālam Khān (932) 456-7; Bābur moves from the Dūn against him 463; his military strength 463, 470; imprisons humble men sent by Bābur 464; various news of him 465, 466-7; Bābur’s estimate of him 470; defeated and killed at Pānīpat 473-4, 630 n. 4; an Afghān account of Bābur’s care for his corpse ib.; references to his rule in Gūālīār (977), to the rebellion of his Eastern amīrs 523, 527, to his capture of Chandirī and defeat at Dhūlpūr by Sangā 593, to Bābur’s route when he was defeated (932) 206, and to his “prison-house” 459; his resources contrasted with Bābur’s 480; his treasure at an end (935) 617; his mother q.v. s.n. mother; his son sent to Kāmrān’s charge in Qandahār (933) 544; [♰932 AH.-1526 AD.].

Ibrāhīm Sārū Mīnglīgh Beg—Chāpūk—particulars [Author’s Note] 52; disloyal to Bābur (900) 52; besieged and submits 53; receives Shīrāz (902) 66; remains with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; on service (904) 101, 106; his man holds fast in Aūsh 107; plundered by ‘Alī-dost (905) 119; waits on Bābur 125; one of three Ibrāhīms killed at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 139, 141; his brother Samad q.v.; his good bowman 66; [♰906 AH.-1501 AD.].

Ibrāhīm Sult̤ān Mīrzā Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Shāh-rukh—his rule in Shīrāz, death and successor (838) 20; referred to 85; [♰838 AH.-1414-5 AD.].

Ibrāhīm T̤aghāī Beg Begchīk, brother of Ayūb—wounded and nicknamed Chāpūk (902) 67; leaves Bābur (903) 86; in Akhsī with Bāyazīd Itārachī (908) 171; sent against Pāp ib.; arrests Bāyazīd 173-4; wounded but fights for Bābur 174; soon falls behind in the flight from Akhsī 176; in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334; holds Balkh for Bābur (923) 463 n. 3; sent as Bābur’s envoy to Aūzbeg Khāns and Sult̤āns (935) 643.

Ibrāhīm Tarkhān Arghūn—serving Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (901) 58; holding Shīrāz (906) 130; reinforces Bābur 131; one of three Ibrāhīms killed at Sar-i-pul 140-1; his brother Aḥmad q.v.; [♰906 AH.-1501 AD.].

Qāẓī Ikhtiyār—particulars 285; waits on Bābur and examines the Bāburī script (912) 285; is instructed in the exposition of the Qorān by Shaibānī (913) 329; [♰928 AH.-1521 AD.].

Ilīās Khān, see Rustam.

Shāh ‘Imād Shīrāzī—brings Bābur friendly letters from two amīrs of Hind (932) 463.

‘Imādu’d-dīn Mas‘ūd—an envoy of Jahāngīr Mīrān-shāhī to Tramontane clans (911-912) 296.

‘Imādu’l-mulk, a slave—strangles Sikandar Gujrātī (932) 535.

Imām-i-muḥammad—Bābur’s company drink at his house (925) 418; his master Khwāja Muḥammad-amīn q.v.

Īsān, see Aīsān.

Isḥāq Ātā (Father Isaac)—his tomb in Turkistān 159.

Iskandar, see Sikandar.

Islīm Barlās—particulars 276.

Ismā‘īl chilma, see Chilma.

Isma‘īl Khān Jilwānī (not Jalwānī)—with ‘Ālam Khān Lūdī (932) 456; deserts him 457; writes dutifully to Bābur 464; speaks of waiting on him (934?) 680; does it (935) 677, 679.

Ismā‘īl Khān Yūsuf-khail Lūdī, son of ‘Alī—parleys with Bābur at Milwat (932) 459; deported 461.

Ismā‘īl Mītā—Naṣrat Shāh’s envoy to Bābur (935) 640-1, 664-5.

Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī ‘Arab, Shāh of Persia—reference to his capture of ‘Irāq (cir. 906) 280, 336; gives refuge to a fugitive Bāī-qarā (913) 327 n. 5; ☛ hostilities begin between him and Shaibānī (915) 350; defeats Shaibānī at Merv (916) 18, 318, ☛ 350; sends Khān-zāda back to Bābur 18, 352; ☛ asked by Bābur for reinforcement (917) 352-4; ☛ his alliance dangerous for Bābur 355; ☛ indication of his suzerain relation with Bābur 355; ☛ a principal actor in the lacuna years from 926-930, 427; ☛ his relations with Shāh Beg Arghūn 430; relations with Bābur (927) 433-4; ☛ his death after defeat (930) 443; ☛ Lord Bacon on his personal beauty 443 n. 1; his son T̤ahmāsp q.v.; his (presumed) Bāī-qarā disciple in Shī‘a heresy 262; [♰930 AH.-1524 AD.].

Ja‘far Khwāja, son of Mahdī Khwāja and step-son of Bābur’s sister Khān-zāda—fills his father’s place in Etāwa (933) 579, 582; sent to collect boats (934) 598; pursues Bīban and Bāyazīd (935) 682. Jahāngīr Barlās, son of Ibrāhīm and a Badakhshī Begīm (T.R. trs. p. 108)—particulars 273; joint-governor of Kābul for Abū-sa‘īd 270, 273.

Jahāngīr Mīrzā Barlās Turk, eldest son of Tīmūr—named in Abū-sa‘īd’s genealogy 14; is given Samarkand by Tīmūr 85; his tomb in Kesh 83; his son Muḥammad 78, 85; [♰776 AH.-1374-5 AD.].

Jahāngīr Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of ‘Umar Shaikh and Fāt̤ima Mughūl—particulars 17; sent (a child) to reinforce an uncle (cir. 895) and then betrothed 48, 189; comes to Andijān after his father’s death (899) 32; Mughūl support for him against Bābur (900) 43-4, (903) 87-8, (904) 101; joins Taṃbal 103; a “worry” 104; defeated at Khūbān (905) 113; waits on Bābur 119; summoned for a Samarkand expedition 122; reinforces Bābur (906) 138; a gift to him from the exiled Bābur (907) 150; joins Bābur (908) 173; acts against Bābur’s wishes 173-4; flees in panic 174-5; rumoured a prisoner 176; ☛ his occupation of Khujand (909?) 182; Bābur rejects advice to dismiss him (910) 191; deference to him from Khusrau Shāh 193; his part in occupying Kābul 198, 199; receives Ghaznī 227; out with Bābur 233-4, 235-6, 239; rejects counsel to betray him 239; is Bābur’s host in Ghaznī 240; his experiences in an earthquake (911) 247; insists on a move for Qalāt-i-ghilzāī 248; waits on Bābur and does service 252-3; his misconduct 254; causes Bābur to mobilize his troops 255; goes to Yaka-aūlāng (912) 294; the clans not supporting him, he goes to Herī with Bābur 295-6; at social gatherings 298, 302; defeats his half-brother Nāṣir 321; his death 331 n. 3, 345; his widow brings their son Pīr-i-muḥammad to Bābur (913) 331; [♰912 or 913 AH.-1507-8 AD.].

Nūru’ddin Muḥammad Jahāngīr Pādshāh Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Akbar—his work in Bābur’s burial-ground 710; words of his made clear by Bābur’s 501 n. 6; mentioned concerning the tamghā 553 n. 1; [♰1037 AH.-1627 AD.].

Jahāngīr Turkmān—revolts in Badakhshān against the Aūzbegs (910) 242; keeping his head up (913) 340.

Jahān-shāh Barlās, son of Chakū—mentioned in his son Muḥammad Barandūq’s genealogy 270.

Jahān-shah Mīrzā Barānī, Qarā-qūīlūq Turkmān—ruling in Tabrīz while Yūnas Chaghatāī stayed there 20; his sons defeated by the Āq-qūīlūq (872) 49; his son Muḥammadī’s wife Pasha 49;2902 [♰872 AH.-1467-8 AD.].

Rāī Jāīpal Lāhorī—a legend of his siege of Ghaznī 219; [♰cir. 392 AH.-1002 AD.].

Rāja Jāī-singh Jāīpūrī—his astronomical instruments 79 n. 4; [♰1156 AH.-1743 AD.].

Jalāl Khān Jig-hat—waits on ‘Ālam Khān Lūdī (932) 456 and n. 4; his house in Dihlī Bābur’s quarters 476; his son ‘Ālam Khān Kālpī q.v.

Jalāl Khān Lūdī, son of‘Ālam Khān—deserts his father (932) 457; in the left wing at Kānwa (933) 567 (where for “Jamāl” read Jalāl).

Jalāl Tāshkīndī—brings Bābur news of Bīban and Bāyazīd (935) 685.

Jalālu’d-dīn Maḥmūd nāī—a flautist, heard in Herāt (912) 303.

Sult̤ān Jalālu’d-dīn Nūḥānī—Jalāl Khān, son of Bihār Khān and Dūdū—one of three competitors for rule (935) 651 n. 5; writes dutifully to Bābur 659; news of his and his mother’s coming 664; waits on Bābur 676; receives revenue from Bihār 676.

Maulānā Jalālu’d-dīn Pūrānī—origin of his cognomen 306; his descendant Jamālu’d-dīn Abū-sa‘īd Pūrān q.v.; [♰862 AH.-1458 AD.].

Sult̤ān Jalālu’d-dīn Sharqī, son of Ḥusain Shāh—waits on Bābur (935) 651; particulars 651 n. 5; his man abandons Benares 652; entertains Bābur 652; his son styled Sult̤ān ib.; his gift of a boat to Bābur 663; in the battle of the Ghogrā 669; on service 678.

Shaikh Jamāl Bārīn Mughūl—his son(?) Shaikh ‘Alī q.v.

Shaikh Jamāl Farmūlī Afghān—deserts ‘Ālam Khān (932) 457; serving Bābur (933) 551.

Shaikh Jamālī—at a feast (935) 631; conveys encouragement to Dūdū Bībī 665-6.

Shaikh Jamālu’d-dīn Abū-sa‘īd Pūrān—particulars 306 n. 2; ill-treated by Shaibānī (913) 306 n. 2, 328; [♰921 AH.-1515 AD.].

Shaikh Jamālu’d-dīn khar, Arghūn—captor of Yūnas Khān and Aīsān-daulat Begīm (T.R. trs. p. 94) —slain 35; [♰877 AH.-1472-3 AD.].

Mīr Jamālu’d-dīn muḥaddas̤—particulars 284; [living 934-7 AH.-1527-31 AD.].

Shaikh Jāmī—ancestor of Akbar’s mother 623 n. 8.

Jāmī, see ‘Abdu’r-raḥmān Jāmī.

Jamshīd, (an ancient ruler of Persia)—mentioned 85, 152.

Mīr Jān-aīrdī, retainer of Ẕū’n-nūn Arghūn—sells provisions to Bābur (912) 308.

Jānak—recites in Turkī (912) 304.

Jānaka Kūkūldāsh, (or Khānika)—escapes after Sār-i-pul (906) 141.

Jān-i-‘alī—murdered by Shaibānī (906) 127, 128; [♰906 AH.-1500 AD.].

Jān Beg—in charge of impedimenta (932) 458; allowed leave for a raid 464; in a night-attack 471; in the left wing at Pānīpat 472 and at Kānwa (933) 567 (here Jān-i-muḥammad Beg Ātāka); on service (935) 682 (here Jānī Beg).

Mīr Jān Dīwān—his house in Qandahār reserved as loot for Nāṣir Mīrān-shāhī (913) 338.

Jānī Beg Dūldāī Barlās Turk—particulars 37 (where nn. 2 and 3 should be reversed).

Jānī Beg Sult̤ān Khān Aūzbeg-Shabān Chīngīz-khānid—his two Mīrān-shāhī marriages of conquest 18, 35; fights for Shaibānī at Sār-i-pūl (906) 139 (where read Jānī Beg Sult̤ān); he and his sons at Jām (935) 622; flees to Merv 636 n. 2.

Jān-i-ḥasan, Bārīn Mughūl—sent to reinforce Bābur (903) 92, (908) 161, 170.

Jān-i-nāṣir—answers a call-to-arms (925) 408.

Mīr Jān Samarkandī—his distasteful singing (912) 303.

Jān-wafā Mīrzā—serving Shaibānī in Samarkand (906) 131; escapes on Bābur’s success 133.

Barlās Jūkī—brings Bābur good news, a live Aūzbeg, and a head (925) 408.

Jūha Sult̤ān Taklū,Governor of Ispahān—with T̤ahmāsp Ṣāfawī on the battle-field of Jām (935) 635.

Jūjī Khān Chīngīz-khānid—a Qāzzāk descendant mentioned 23.

Muḥammad Jūkī Mīrzā Shah-rukhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of ‘Abdu’l-lat̤īf (♰854)—mentioned as besieged by Abū-sa‘īd Mīrān-shāhī 24; [♰868 AH.-1463-4 AD.].

Sult̤ān Junaid Barlās (or Junīd)—particulars 276; his sons Niz̤āmu’d-dīn ‘Alī Khalīfa and Junaid q.v.

Sult̤ān Junaid Barlās (or Junīd), son of the last-entered—incites an attempt on Samarkand (900) 52, 111; serving Bābur (932) 460, 468, 471; in the left wing at Pānīpat 472; sent to help in occupying Dihlī 475; given Dūlpūr 530-1; posted in Jūnpūr (933) 544; in Kharīd (935) 637 and n. 1; joins Bābur late and is not received 667; gives local information 668; in the battle of the Ghogrā 669; on service 679, 682 and n. 2; his wife Shahr-bānū Mīrān-shāhī q.v.

Kābulī Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrīd, Barlās Turk—abandoned by her husband Badī‘u’z-zamān Bāī-qarā and captured by Shaibānī (913) 328.

Kahil ṣaḥib-i-qadam—gives his horse to Bābur (908) 174.

Pahlawān Kalāl—wrestles (935) 650.

Kalāntar of Dikh-kat (var. kālāntar and kīlāntar)—his house used by Bābur (907) 150; his aged mother’s story ib.

Kalīmu’l-lāh Shāh Bahminī Afghān—ruling the Dakkhin (932) 482.

Kal-qāshūq—put to retaliatory death (903) 73.

Sayyid Kāmal—serving Khusrau Shāh (903) 96 (where for “Qasīm” read Kāmal).

Kamāl Khān Sāhū-khail Lūdī Afghān, son of ‘Ālam Khān—in the left wing at Kānwa (933) 567.

Kamāl Khwāja—his birth-place Khujand 8; [♰803 AH.-1400-1 AD.].

Kamāl sharbatchī—in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 335.

Pahlawān Khwāja Kamālu’d-dīn Badakhshī—in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 566.

Khwāja Kamālu’d-dīn Ḥusāin Gāsur-gāhī—particulars 280, 281; sent as envoy to Shaibānī (904) 145.

Khwāja Kamālu’d-dīn Maḥmūd, retainer of Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī—☛ with Bābur after the defeat at Ghaj-davān (919) 362-3; [♰cir. 919 AH.-1514 AD.].

Kamālu’d-dīn Qīāq (var.)—lays before Bābur complaint of the begs of the Balkh frontier (935) 649.

Kāmrān Mīrza Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Bābur and Gul-rukh Begchīk—☛ the date of his birth App. J, xxxv; ☛ taken on the Transoxus campaign (916-920) 358; carried in haste to meet his father (920) 395; joins his father 417; ☛ the Mubīn written for his instruction (928) 438; ☛ left in charge of Kābul and Qandahār (932) App. J, xxxv; a letter from Bābur to him ib. and App. L, xliii; his copy of the Bābur-nāma App. J, xxxv-vi; gifts sent to him (932) 460, 522, 642; put in charge of Ibrāhīm Lūdī’s son (933) 544; ☛ of his transfer to Multār (934-5) ☛ 604, 605 n. 3, 645; of his proceedings in Kābul 618; his marriage to a cousin 619; the Wālidiyyah-risāla, Hindustān Poems and specimens of the Bāburī script sent to him 642; heads of a letter to him 645, 646; ☛ meets Humāyūn in Kābul (935) 696; ☛ meets Bābur in Lāhor (936) 699; ☛ of his governments 699; ☛ later action in Multān and Lāhor (938) (which read for 935) 699; ☛ visits his father’s tomb near Āgra (946) 709; [♰964 AH.-1556 AD.].

Kankū or Gangū—killed at Kānwa 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Karīm-bīrdī—on Bābur’s service (935) 661.

Karīm-dād Turkmān—at a household party (906) 131; escapes from Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 141; one of four fighting with Bābur (908) 166, 396; reprieved from a death sentence (914) 345.

Karm-chand—acting for Ḥasan Mewatī (933) 545, 578; asks peace from Bābur for Ḥasan’s son Nāhar 578.

Kārm Singh—killed at Kānwa 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Rāja Karna Gūālīārī, (or, Kirtī), Tūnwar Rājpūt—his buildings in Gūālīār 608 n. 3.

Khadīja Āghā, and later, Begīm, mistress of Abū-sa‘īd Mīrān-shāhī, wife of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 262, 268; her dominance 268, 292; visited in Herī by Bābur (912) 301; at an entertainment to him 302; a suspicion against her 302 n. 1; captured by Shaibānī (913) 327; given for a traitor to loot 328; her daughter Āq Begīm and sons Shāh-i-gharīb and Muẓaffar-i-ḥusain q.v.

Khadija-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Abū’sa‘īd—(probably) seen by Bābur in Herī (912) 301; Bābur visits her near Āgra (934) 588 and in Āgra Fort (935) 606, 616.

Khaldār Yāragī Mughūl, son of Ḥaidar Kūkūldāsh—fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139.

Khalīfa, see Niẕamu’d-dīn ‘Alī Barlās.

Khalīl chuhra—a brave who fought well for Bābur (904) 101.

Khalīl dīwāna—on Aūzūn Ḥasan’s service (904) 102 (where for “Dīwān” read dīwāna).

Sult̤ān Khalīl Mīrzā, Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Mīrān-shāh—mentioned 262 n. 2; [♰814 AH.-1411-2 AD.].

Sult̤ān Khalīl Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī (ut supra), son of Abū-sa‘īd—his daughter sole wife of Bāī-sunghar Mīrān-shāhī 112.

Khalīl Sult̤ān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, son of Aḥmad, (Alacha Khān), full brother of Sa‘īd—his son Bābā Sult̤ān q.v.

Khalīl Sult̤ān Itārajī Mughūl, brother of Aḥmad Taṃbal—holding Māḏū for Taṃbal (905) 109; captured ib., and released 119; surprises Aūsh 125; helps Bābur against Shaibānī (906) 138; killed at Sar-i-pul 141; [♰906 AH.-1501 AD.].

Khalwī pīāda (or Khalwā)—his spear-head bitten off by a tiger (925) 393.

The Khatīb of Qarshī—an envoy to Bābur (910) 188.

Khān-i-jahān, see Fatḥ Khān Sarwānī.

Khān-i-jahān, a “pagan”—opposes Bābur (933) 539.

Khān-qulī, son of Bīān-qulī—leaves Bābur in Samarkand (903) 86; at a household party (906) 131 (where read Khān-qulī for “Khān-i-qulī”); gives ground for suspicion (907) 156; one of eight in the flight from Akhsī (908) 176, 177; in the right-centre at Qandahār (913) 335.

Khān-zāda Begīm (1), Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Maḥmūd—particulars 48.

Khān-zāda Begīm (2), ut supra, daughter of Maṣ‘ūd and Sa‘ādat-bakht—particulars 267; visited by Bābur near Āgra (935) 616.

Khān-zāda Begīm (3), ut supra, daughter of ‘Umar Shaikh and Qūtlūq-nigār—particulars 17; her marriage with Shaibānī (907) 18, 147, ☛ 184; her divorce and remarriage with Sayyid Hādī Khwāja 352 [Ḥ.S. iii], 364; her reunion with Bābur (916) 18, 352, 356; her marriage with Mahdī Khwāja q.v.; her summons to Hindūstān (935) 647; his son Khurram Shāh q.v.; [♰952 AH.-1545 AD.].

Khān-zādā Begīm (4), Tīrmīẕī, wife of Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī—particulars 48; her son Mas‘ūd q.v.; her niece 48.

Khān-zāda Begīm (5), Tīrmīẕī, niece of the above, wife of Maḥmūd—particulars 48, 9; her son Ḥusain q.v.; her five daughters 47-8.

Khān-zāda Begīm (6), Tīrmīẕī, wife of Aḥmad Mīrān-shāhī—particulars 37; Bābur, a child, pulls off her wedding veil (893) 37.

Khān-zāda Khānīm Ḥājī-tarkhānī, daughter of Aḥmad and Badī‘u’l-jamāl (Badka)—particulars 258 n. 2, 329; illegally married by Shaibānī (913) 329; her husband Muzaffar-i-ḥusain Bāī-qarā q.v.

Khawānd Shāh Amīr, (“Mirkhond”), author of the Rauzatu’ṣ-ṣafā—omitted (or lost) from Bābur’s list of Herāt celebrities 283 n. 1; [♰903 AH.-1498 AD.].

Khiẓr Khwāja Khān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid—mentioned in Yūnas Khān’s genealogy 19.

Khwāja Khiẓr Nūḥānī, a merchant—killed by a Mughūl (910) 235 (where for “Lūḥānī” read Nūḥānī).

Khūb-nīgār Khānīm Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, daughter of Yūnas and Aīsān-daulat—particulars 21, 22; her death announced to Bābur (907) 148, 149; her rebel husband forgiven for her sake (912) 319; her husband Muḥammad Ḥusain Dūghlāt, their son Ḥāidar and daughter Ḥabība q.v.; [♰907 AH.-1501-2 AD.].

Khudā-bakhsh Chaghatāī, retainer, (1) of Khusrau Shāh, (2) of Bābur—in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334; rebels against Bābur (914) 345.

Khudāī-bīrdī Beg tūghchī, Mughūl—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; made a beg and on service 110; killed at Sar-i-pul 141; [♰906 AH.-1501 AD.].

Khudāī-bīrdī būqāq, Mughūl—killed at Asfara (900) 53 (here ātākām, my guardian); his favour from Bābur 105; his son Qulī chūnāq q.v.; [♰900 AH.-1495 AD.].

Khudāī-bīrdī tūghchī Tīmūr-tāsh—made ‘Umar Shaikh’s Lord-of-the-Gate (cir. 870) 14; particulars 24-5; [♰a few years after 870 AH.-1466 AD.].

Khurram Shāh Aūzbeg-Shaibān, Chīngīz-khānid, son of Shaibānī and Khān-zāda—particulars 18; [♰a few years after 916 AH.-1510-11 AD.].

Khūsh-kīldī2903 Mughūl—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335.

Khusrau, an ancient ruler of Persia—mentioned in a couplet 85.

Khusrau Gāgīānī—waits on Bābur (910) 230 (where insert his name in the last line); taken as a guide 231.

Khusrau Kūkūldāsh—at a household party (906) 131 (where insert his name after that of Shaikh Darwesh); captured by Taṃbal (908) 168; rejoins Bābur (913) 330-1; in the right centre at Qandahār 335; out with Bābur (925) 377, 403; an enquiry 405; ☛ posted in Sīālkot (930) 442; seeming still to hold it (932) 453; on service 465, 471; in the van at Pānīpat 472; in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 566, 568; given Alūr (Alwar) by mistake 578; sent against Balūchīs (935) 638; at social gatherings 385-7-8.

Amīr Khwāja Khusrau Lāchīn Turk—a couplet of his quoted 503; [♰725 AH.-1325 AD.].

Khusrau Shāh2904 Turkistānī, Qībchāq Turk, —particulars 49-50; takes Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī (æt. 17) to Ḥiṣār (cir. 873) 46-7; referred to as a rival 50; his tolerance of Ḥiṣārī ill-conduct (899) 41-2; expelled from Samarkand on Maḥmūd’s death (900) 51-2; opposes Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (901) 57, 60-1; his rise helped by Bāī-qarā failures 61; supports Mas‘ūd Mīrān-shāhī 64; falls out with him 71, 93; blinds him (903) 95; defeats Badī‘u'-zamān Bāī-qarā 60-1; re-equips him defeated by his father (902) 70; receives well the fugitive Bāī-sunghar Mīrān-shāhī (903) 74; makes him pādshāh in Ḥiṣār 93; strangles him (905) 110; a fugitive Tarkhān goes to him (906) 120, 141; his niggardliness to Bābur 129, 130; gives him no help against Shaibānī 138, ☛ 183; Qāsim Beg quchīn takes refuge with him (907) 27; his position less secure (910) 188; followers of his join Bābur 189, 192, 196, 227 n. 3; invited to co-operate with the Tīmūrid Mīrzās against Shaibānī 190; takes the Kābul road on Bābur’s approach 192, 244; offers him service 192; the interview of his submission 193-4; allowed to go towards Khurāsān 194, 195; breaks his pact and is put to flight 197, 243; gets sensible counsel in Herāt 243; makes trouble for Nāṣir Mīrān-shāhī in Badakhshān 244-5; beheaded at Qūndūz by the Aūzbegs 244; good results from his death for Bābur 245; Bābur’s reflections on the indiscipline of his followers 199, 230 n. 5, 239, 244-5; his former following rebels (914) 335; his brothers Walī and Bāqī, and nephew Aḥmad-i-qāsim q.v.; [♰910 AH.-1505 AD.].

Khwāja Chishtī var. Ḥusaini—at a feast (935) 631.

‘Abdu’l-lāh Khwājagān-khwāja, fifth son of ‘Ubaidu’l-lāh Aḥrarī—his son ‘Abdu’sh-shahīd 653 n. 4.

Khwājakā Khwāja, Muḥammad-i-‘ubaidu’l-lāh, eldest son of Aḥrarī—protects Bāī-sunghar Mīrān-shāhī in the Tarkhān rebellion (901) 62 (where, erroneously, “Khwājakī”); becomes his spiritual guide 63; visited in Farkat by Bābur (907) 149; his brother Yaḥyā q.v.

Khwāja Kalān, descendant of ‘Ubaidu’l-lāh Āḥrarī—☛ a likely recipient of the Mubīn 438, 631 n. 3 (where for “son” read grandson of Yaḥyā); at a feast in Āgra (935) 631; gifts and leave given 632, 641-2; a copy of Bābur-nāma writings sent to him 653.

Mīr Khwāja Kalān, son of Maulānā Muḥammad Ṣadru’d-dīn—receives Bajaur (925) 370; particulars 370 n. 2; prisoners pardoned at his request 371; out with Bābur 372; returns to Bajaur 376; is recalled on grounds given (926) 422-3; joins Bābur for Hindūstān (932) 447; on service 465-6; in the right wing at Pānīpat 472; helps to secure Āgra 475; of his leaving Hindūstān 520, 531; his offending couplet about leaving, and Bābur’s reply 525-6; has charge of Kābul and Ghaznī 524; conveys money to repair the Ghaznī dam 219, 524 n. 2, 647 n. 1; Bābur’s various writings sent to him, quatrains (925) 372, (932) 525-6, (935) the Wālidiyyah-risāla and Hindūstān poems 642 —letters (925) 411, (935) 604, 618 n. 2, quoted 645-8; commended to Humāyūn as a friend 627; a letter of his mentioned 644; wine parties in his house (925) 371-2, 375; has Ghaznī wine at Milwat (932) 461; urged to renounce wine 648; tells Bābur of a fruitful orange-tree (935) 510, cf. 483 n. 2; ☛ quotation from his ode on Bābur’s death 709.

‘Abdu’l-lāh Khwāja Maulānā-i-qāzī—particulars 29, 89-90; supports Bābur (899) 30; chases off an invader 32; confers with other well-wishers of the boy (900) 43; mediates for Ibrāhīm Sārū 53, for Aūrgūtīs (902) 68; envoy to Aūzūn Ḥasan (903) 87; open-handed to Bābur’s followers 88; entreats him to save Andijān 88-9; Mīr Mughūl aids him in its defence 122; hanged by Taṃbal and Aūzūn Ḥasan 89; ‘Alī-dost fears retaliation for his death (905) 119; his right guidance recalled by Bābur (912) 303; [♰903 AH.-1498 AD.].

Khwājakī Mullā-i-ṣadr, son of Maulānā Muḥammad Ṣadru’d-dīn, and elder brother of Khwāja Kalān—particulars 67; killed near Yām 67; [♰902 AH.-1497 AD.].

Khwāja Mīr-i-mīrān—speaks boldly at Akhsī (908) 174; in charge of baggage camels (925) 376, 377, and of Bābur’s camp 389, 391; Bābur halts near his Lamghān village (926) 424; given charge of Daulat Khān Yūsuf-khail (932) 459-60; in the left-centre at Pānīpat (973); entrusted with gifts for Kābul 525.

Khwāja Mīr Sult̤ān—he and his son receive gifts (935) 632.

Khwānd-amīr, grandson of Khāwand Shāh Amīr (“Mīrkhond”)—☛ associated with Muḥammad-i-zamān Bāī-qarā (923) 364-5, 463 n. 3; fleeced by Shaibānī’s order (913) 328 n. 2; his discomforts in Herāt 617 n. 2; waits on Bābur (935) 605; Bābur invites him in verse 693; completes the Ḥabību’s-siyar while at Tīr-mūhānī with Bābur 687 n. 3; his omission (or loss) from Bābur’s list of Herāt celebrities 283 n. 1; his and Bābur’s varied choice of details 328 n. 2; ☛ his patron Amīr Ghiyās̤u’d-dīn and nephew Ghiyās̤u’d-dīn 436; [♰942 AH.-1535 AD.].

Khwāja Khwānd-sa‘īd—Bābur visits his tomb (925) 407.

Mīr Khāwand—Shāh Amīr (“Mīrkhond”)—author of the Rauzatu’ṣ-ṣafā, grandfather of Khwānd-amīr—his omission (or loss) from Bābur’s list of Herāt celebrities 283 n. 1; [♰903 AH.-1498 AD.].

Kīchīk ‘Alī—his courage (908) 176; made prisoner (933) 557, 576; shiqdār of Koel 176.

Kīchīk Bāqī dīwāna—suspended (911) 248; killed at Qalāt-i-ghilzāī 248; [♰911 AH.-1505 AD.].

Kīchīk Begīm Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Ḥusain and Pāyanda-sult̤ān—refused in marriage to Mas‘ūd Mīrān-shāhī 265; “afterwards” marries Multā Khwāja 266.2905

Kīchīk Khwāja—on ‘Askarī’s service (935) 681, 682.

Kīchīk Khwāja Beg, son of Maulānā Muḥammad Ṣadru’d-dīn and elder brother of Khwāja Kalān—in the left wing at Khūbān (905) 113; killed at Qalāt-i-ghilzāī 2482906; [♰911 AH.-1505 AD.].

Kīchīk Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Aḥmad (Mīrzā Sayyidī) and Ākā Bāī-qarā—particulars 257.

Kīchkīna tunqt̤ār—sent with orders to Tramontane begs (925) 406.

Kīpa and Kīpīk, see Kūpūk.

Rāja Kirtī Gūālīārī, see Karna.

Kītīn-qarā Sult̤ān Aūzbeg—in Balkh (932) 545-6; at Jām (935) 622 (where in n. 1 read 935 for “934”); makes complaint to Bābur 649, 645 n. 1.

Kitta Beg Kohbur Chaghatāī, son of Sayyidī Qarā—convoys Yūsuf-khail chiefs to Bhīra (932) 461; on Bābur’s service 465-6, 468, 528, (933) 545, (935) 638; wounded at Bīāna (933) 548.

Kitta Māh and Kīchīk Māh, slaves of Muz̤affar-i-ḥusain Bāī-qarā—offend Bābur by their performance (912) 304.

Kūchūm Khān Sult̤ān—Kūchkūnjī—Aūzbeg-Shaibān, Chīnqīz-khānid—particulars 632 n. 3; ☛ his force gathered at Qarshī (917) 353; ☛ a principal actor between 926 and 932 AH. 427; his position in relation to ‘Ubaidu’l-lāh (935) 618 n. 6; in the battle of Jām 622; various accounts of his escape or death 623, 636; his envoy to Bābur 631, 632; his sons Abū-sa‘īd and Pulād q.v.; [♰937 AH.-1530-1 AD.].

Kūkī-i[1] Bābā Qāshqa, see Hājī Muḥammad Khān Kūkī.

Kūkī,2907 paternal-uncle of the last-entered (A.N.)—on Bābur’s service (934) 589, (935) 674, 679; in the battle of the Ghogrā 673; [♰940 AH.-1553 AD.?].

Kūpuk Beg, var. Kīpik, Kīpa (hunchbacked)—in Bābur’s service (910) 237; promoted (911) 253; frost-bitten (912) 311; in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335; envoy to Mīrzā Khān (925) 405.

Kūpuk Bī Aūzbeg var. ut supra—blamed for three murders (906) 128; given Khwārizm by Shaibānī (911) 256; his son Qaṃbar-i-‘alī q.v.

Kūpuk Mīrzā Bāī-qarā, Muḥammad Muḥsin, son of Ḥusain and Lat̤īf-sult̤ān—parentage 262; defeated by his father (904) 260; does not join his brothers against Shaibānī (912) 296-7; defeated and killed 329-30; [♰913 AH.-1507 AD.].

Sayyid Lāchīn—bearer of an urgent message from Bābur (932) 453.

Ḥaẓrat Lām, (Lāmak, Lāmakān), father of Noah—his reputed tomb, 210.

Langar Khān Janjūha—on Bābur’s service (925) 380, 381, 388-9, 412; one of a raft-party 385; waits on Bābur 391, 411.

Langar Khān Nīazāī Afghān—one of a raft-party (925) 412; waits on Bābur (926) 421.

Lat̤īf Begīm Dūldāī Barlās Turk—particulars 37 (where for “916” read 917 AH.).

Lat̤īf-sult̤ān Āghācha Chār-shaṃba’ī, a mistress of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 269; her sons Abū’l-muḥsin and Kūpuk q.v.; [♰before 911 AH.-1506 AD.].

Lope de Vega—a popular use of his name resembling one of Nawā’ī’s 287 n. 3.

Lut̤fī Beg—measures the Ganges-bank on Bābur’s journey (933) 659.

Maghfūr, see Faghfūr.

Māh-afrūz—married by Kāmrān (934) 619 n. 1.

Mah-chūchūq Arghūn, daughter of Muqīm and Zarīf—marries Qāsim Kūkūldāsh (913) 342, 199 n. 1, ☛ 365; their daughter Nahīd q.v.; [♰cir. 975 AH.-1568 AD.].

Mahdī Sult̤ān Aūzbeg, the constant associate (brother?) of Ḥamza—defeated by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (901) 58; enters Bābur’s service 59; deserts 64; defeats ‘Alī Mīrān-shāhī and goes back to Shaibānī 65; his Mughūls are disloyal to Bābur (904) 105; serving Shaibānī (906) 131; at Sar-i-pul 139; at Ḥiṣār (910) 244; ☛ retires before Bābur (916) 352; defeated and killed by him at Pul-i-sangīn (917) 18, 37, 262, 353, 354; his Mīrān-shāhī wife 36; his sons at Jām (935) 622; [♰917 AH.-1511-12 AD.].

Mahdī-Sult̤ān Auzbeg-Shaibān?—his identity discussed 264 n. 1; his son ‘Ādil and grandson ‘Āqil q.v.

Sayyid Mahdī Khwāja, son of Mūsa Khwāja and third husband of Bābur’s sister Khān-zāda—Bābur’s dīwān-begī (916-7) 704 n. 3; ☛ dissuades Muḥammad-i-zamān from accepting Bābur’s invitation to Kābul (after 920) 364; on Bābur’s service (932) 468, 471; in the left wing at Pānīpat 472, 473; commands troops sent to seize Dihlī 475; gifts made to him 527; given Etāwa 530; orders changed 531; serves as an escort (933) 534, 537; given Bīāna 539; sends news of Sangā’s approach 544; joins Bābur quickly 548; in the left wing at Kānwa 567; given leave for Kābul 579; host to Bābur near Etāwa (935) 644; waits on him returning to Āgra 686; displeases him 688 n. 2, 704 n. 2; summoned to Court 689; later particulars 644 n. 4, 688 n. 2, ☛ 692; ☛ discussion of a plan to make him Pādshāh 703-7; ☛ his name may be a gloss in the story 705; his son Ja‘far q.v.; his inscribed slab at Amīr Khusrau’s tomb 704 n. 1; his surmised Tīrmīzī descent 704; his relation or servant Mīr Muḥammad (925) 381.

Māhīm Begīm, wife of Bābur—particulars 344 n. 3, 711, ☛ 712, 714; ☛ with Bābur during the Transoxus campaign (916-920) 358; adopts Hind-āl (925) 374, 385, ☛ 715, App. L; ☛ visits Humāyūn in Badakhshān (928) 436; goes to Āgra (935) 640 n. 2, 650650 n. 2, 665, 686-7, 689 n. 2, 690; ☛ her influence probably misused on Humāyūn 694, 707; meets him, sick, in Muttra (937) 701-2; ☛ her care of Bābur’s Āgra tomb (937) 709; [♰940 AH.-1533-4 AD.].

Sayyid Maḥmūd Aūghlāqchī, Mughūl—forced to go on foot (910) 239.

Maḥmūd Beg Nūndākī, Barlās Turk—particulars 51; defends Ḥiṣār against Abā-bikr Mīrān-shāhī ( 873) 51, and against Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (901) 58; negociates with Ḥusain 61.

Sultān Maḥmūd Dūldāī Barlās Turk—expelled from Andijān (900) 44; turns informer (905) 125.

Mulla Maḥmūd Farābī, associated with Khalīfa—reads the Qorān to Bābur (925) 401; rebukes a jest at Khalīfa’s expense 416; reads the Khut̤ba first for Bābur in Dihlī (932) 476; reinforces the right wing [tūlghuma] at Kānwa (933) 569; leads the Morning Prayer at Rāprī (935) 643 (where for “Muḥammad” read Maḥmūd).

Sult̤ān Maḥmūd Ghāzī Ghaznawī Turk—his humble capital Ghaznī 217, 219; his and his descendants’ tombs 218; Dost-i-nāṣir’s tomb near his 396; his dam and Bābur’s gift from Hindūstān for its repairs 219; Būt-khāk traditionally named from his idol-breaking 409 n. 3; mentioned as a conqueror of Hindūstān 479; contrast made between his position and Bābur’s 479; [♰421 AH.-1030 AD.].

Sult̤ān Maḥmūd Khān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, Khāqān of the Mughūls, elder son of Yūnas and Shāh Begīm—succeeds his father (892) 13; his disaster on the Chīr (895) 31, 34, 39; invades Farghāna (899) 13, 31; thought of as a refuge for Bābur 29, (908) 178; retires from Farghāna 32; attempts Samarkand and is defeated (900) 52, 111, (905) 122; takes Aūrā-tīpā (900) 55-6; demands Andijān (903) 87; is visited by Bābur (900) 54, (903) 90, 92, (907 and 908) 153-159; sends help to Bābur (903) 90, 92, (904) 101, (906) 138, 139; his men abandon Bābur (903) 91, 92; he opposes Bābur (905) 115-6, 116; moves out against Taṃbal (907) 154, 156; numbers his army 154; acclaims his standards 155; ceremonies on his meeting his brother Aḥmad (908) 160; goes with him against Taṃbal 161, 168, 171; they number their armies 161; retires to Tāshkīnt 172; defeated at Archīān by Shaibānī (909) 7, 23, ☛ 182-3; his præ-accession sobriquet Khāmka Khān 23; his summer retreat in Farghānā 5; his Mīrān-shāhī marriage (cir. 892) 13, 35; retainers of his 25, 28; former followers, deported (908) by Shaibānī, return after his death (916) 351; Bābur’s comment on him as a soldier 91, 157, and as a verse-maker 154; ☛ murdered with five young sons by Shaibānī 350; [♰914 AH.-1509 AD.].

Māḥmūd Khān Lūdī Afghān, son of Sikandar—fights for Sangā at Kānwa (933) 562; reported to have taken Bīhar (935) 639, 675; one of three competitors for rule 651 n. 5; gathers an army to oppose Bābur 651-2; it breaks up 654; is near the Son 658; flees before Bābur’s men 662; referred to 664 n. 7, 679 n. 7; on his title Sult̤ān 652 nn. 2, 6, 653-4 n. 1; [♰945 AH.-1543 AD.].

Maḥmūd Khān Nūḥānī Afghān —holding a district from Bābur; taken by ‘Ālam Khān (932) 455, 456; deserts ‘Ālam Khān; waits on Bābur and given revenue from Ghāzīpūr 527; sent against Etāma 530; waits on Bābur (935) 659; searches for a passage through the Ghogrā 668; in the battle of the Ghogrā 669 (here Ghazīpūrī); receives a grant on Bihār 676; on service against Bīban and Bāyazīd 682.

Maḥmūd Khān shikdār of Sikandarpūr—collects boats for Bābur’s passage of the Ghogrā (935) 668.

Maḥmūd Khān Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-Shaibān Chīngīz-khānid—in the battle of Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139; receives Qūndūz (910) 244; his protection sought 196 n. 5; dies 244; [♰910 AH.-1504 AD.].

Sult̤ān Maḥmūd Khīlīj Turk, ruler in Mālwā—particulars 482 (where in n. 2 for “GUJRĀT” read Mālwā); his territory (916) 593; his jewels (925 and 935) 612-3; thought of by Raḥīm dād as a refuge 688 n. 2 (where for “Muḥammad” read Maḥmūd); [♰937 AH.-1531 AD.].

Maḥmūd kūndūr-sangak, pīāda—killed fighting 68; [♰902 AH.-1497 AD.].593;

Sult̤ān Maḥmud mīr-akhẉur, see Mīrzā Beg fīrmgī-bāz (58 and n. 4).

Sult̤ān Maḥmūd Mīrzā Ghāzī, Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Abū-sa‘īd—particulars 45-51; defeated by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (865 and 876), 46, 259-60, 268; succeeds his brother Aḥmad (899) 40-1, 86; alienates allegiance 41-2; sends Bābur wedding-gifts (900) 43; his death 27, 45, 50, 52; his family joins Bābur (910) 189; referred to 12 n. 2, 13 n. 5, 190, 194; his Ḥiṣār house 93; [♰900 AH.-1495 AD.].

Sayyid Maḥmūd Ṣaifī, Maulānā ‘Arūẓī—author of the ‘Arūẓ-i-saifī—tutor of Bāī-sunghar Mīrān-shāhī 111.

Maḥmūd Sarwānī, son of Fatḥ Khan Khān-i-jahān—ordered to stay at Court (933) 537.

Maḥmūd Shāh Ilyās—his murder mentioned to illustrate a succession custom of Bengal 483.

Sult̤ān Maḥmūd Sharqī, son of Jalālu’d-dīn—Bābur gives him the title of Sult̤ān (935) 652.

Maḥmūd, son of Muḥammad-i-makhdūmī—beheaded in Badakhshān 242; [♰910 AH.-1504-5 AD.?].

(?) Mahndī (415, 473), or Mindī or Hindī (235, 335)—kills an Afghān trader (910) 235; in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335; wine first given to him (925) 415; in the left wing [tūlghuma] at Pānīpat (932) 473.

Khwāja Majdu’d-dīn Muḥammad Khawāfī—particulars 281, 282.

Makan Farmūlī(?) Afghān—not submissive to Bābur (932) 529; sent out of the way before Kānwa (933) 547; his son Ḥasan q.v.

Makhdūm-i-‘ālam, Naṣrat Shāh’s Governor in Ḥājīpūr—his defences on the Gandak (935) 663.

Ḥaẓrat Makhdūmī Nūrā—mentioned 641 n. 1.

Makhdūm-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Maḥmūd and Zuhra—in Badakhshān (cir. 935) 48.

Makhdūm-sult̤ān Begīm Qarā-gūz, wife of ‘Umar Shaikh—particulars 18, 24.

Malik-dād Kararānī (Karānī)2908—reprieved (932) 477-8; on service (933) 540, 582, (935) 682; in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 557.

Malik-i-muḥammad Mīrzā Mīran-shāhī, nephew of Abū-sa‘īd—aspires to rule (899) 41; murdered 41; his wife 47; his house 146; [♰899 AH.-1494 AD.].

Maliks of Alangār—their garden a halting-place (926) 424.

Malik of Fān—stingy to Bābur (906) 130.

Malik-qulī Kūnārī—Bābur halts at his son’s house (926) 423 (where read qulī for “‘Alī”).

Malik Sharq—returns from service (935) 683.

Mallū Khān of Mālwā—his tank at Chanderī 597 n. 8, 598.

Mamāq Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-Shaibān Chīngīz-khānid, son of Ḥamza—takes service with Bābur (901) 58, 59; ☛ his death 353; [♰917 AH.-1511-2 AD.].

Māmūm Khalīfa, ‘Abbāsī, son of Hārūnu’r-rashīd—his Observatory and Tables, Author’s Note 79; [♰218 AH.-833 AD.].

Mānik-chand Chauhān Rājpūt—killed at Kānwa 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Rāja Man-sing Gūālīārī, Tūnwar Rājpūt—his buildings 607, 608; his son Bikramājīt q.v.; [♰924 AH.-1518 AD.].

Shāh Manṣūr bakhshī—helps Shaibānī to take Herāt (913) 325; given Khadīja Begīm to loot 326.

Shah Manṣūr Barlās—on service (932) 465-6, 475, 530, (933) 545; in the right centre at Pānīpat (932) 472, 473, and at Kānwa (933) 565, 569; his untimely praise of the Rājpūt army 548, 550.

Sult̤ān Manṣūr Khān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, eldest son of Aḥmad, Alacha Khān—☛ defeats his half-brother Sa‘īd (914) 349; ☛ mentioned as Khāqān of the Mughūls, Sa‘īd as Khān in Kāshghar 427; [♰950 AH.-1543 AD.].

Manṣūr Mīrzā Bāī-qarā, ‘Umar-shaikhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—mentioned in his son Ḥusain’s genealogy 256; his not-reigning 256; his wife Fīrūza and their children 256, 257; his beg Walī q.v.

Manṣūr Turkmān—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335.

Malik Shāh Manṣūr Yūsuf-zāī Afghān, son of Sulaimān—envoy of his tribe to Bābur (924) 371; his daughter’s marriage with Bābur (925) 375, App. K; waits on him 399, 400; his brother T̤aus Khān and cousin Aḥmad q.v.; a follower 377.

Maqṣūd sūchī, shārbatchī, karg—in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335, 338; his tossing by a rhinoceros (karg) 400.

Marghūb qul—in Mahāwīn (932) 523.

Mīān Ma‘rūf Farmūlī Afghān2909—disaffected to Ibrāhīm and (later) to Bābur (932) 523; his opposition 530; flees 533-4; his son Muḥammad (?) leaves him (934) 598; his sons Muḥammad and Mūsa q.v.

Ma‘rūf Yaq‘ūb-khaīl Dilah-zāk (Dīlazāk) Afghān—waits on Bābur at ‘Alī-masjid (925) 394.

Shaikh Maṣlaḥat Khujandī—his birthplace 8; dreamed of by Bābur (906) 132; his tomb visited by Tīmūr (790) 132 n. 2.

Mastī chuhra—deals with a drunken man (925) 415; intoxicated by beer (926) 423.

Sult̤ān Mas‘ūd Ghaznawī—his tomb 218.

Sult̤ān Mas‘ūd Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Maḥmūd and Khān-zāda I—particulars 47, 48; holding Ḥiṣār (900) 52; opposes Ḥusain Bāī-qarā and flees (901) 57-8, 130; one of three besieging Samarkand; retires with his desired Barlās bride 64; quarrels with Khusrau Shāh (902) 71, and with the Ḥiṣār begs (903) 93; takes refuge with Ḥusain Bāī-qarā 93, 95, 261, 265; returns to Khusrau and is blinded by him 95, 50; goes back to Ḥusain 95, 266; mentioned as older than Bāī-sunghar 110; meets Bābur in Ḥerāt (912) 302; murdered by Aūzbegs (913) 267; his wives Ṣāliḥa-sult̤ān Mīrān-shāhī, and Sa‘ādat-bakht Bāī-qarā q.v.; his betrothed (?) Kīchīk Begīm Bāī-qarā q.v.; [♰913 AH.-1507 AD.].

Sult̤ān Mas‘ūd Mīrzā Kābulī, Shāh-rukhī, ut supra—particulars 382; his cherished followers, sons of Mīr ‘Alī Beg q.v.; his son ‘Alī aṣghar q.v.; [deposed 843 AH.-1439-40 AD.].

Mullā Mas‘ūd Sherwānī, of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s Court—no particulars 284.

Ma‘ṣūma-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Aḥmad and Habība-sult̤ān, and wife of Bābur—particulars 36, ☛ 711; her marriage arranged (912) 306, ☛ 714; brought from Ḥerāt (913) 330; married 339; dies in child-bed and her name at once given to her child 36; [♰cir. 915 AH.-1509 AD.].

Ma‘ṣūma-sult̤ān Begīm, ut supra, daughter of Bābur and Ma‘ṣuma-sult̤ān (supra)—her birth 36; with her father in the Transoxus campaign (916-920) 358; her marriage (or betrothal) to Muḥammad-i-zamān Bāī-qarā (923 or 924) 365; gifts made to her servants (935) 633; ☛ in the family-list 705, 706.

Maulānā Sayyidī, or Mashhadī—his chronogram on Humāyūn’s birth (913) 344.

Shaikh Mazīd Beg, Bābur’s first guardian—particulars 26, 27; [♰ before 899 AH.-1494 AD.].

Mīr Mazīd T̤aghāī Kūnjī Mughūl, brother or uncle of Aīsān-daulat—takes part in a sally from Samarkand (906) 142; wounded at Akhsī (908) 168; rebels (921) 363, 397; his relations, ‘Alī-dost, Sherīm, Qul-naẕr q.v.; [♰cir. 923 AH.-1517 AD.].

Mazīd Beg Tarkhān Arghūn, son of Amīr Tarkhān Junaid (Ḥ.S. lith. ed. iii, 359)—his retainer Khusrau Shāh 49; his action in 873 AH. 51; his brother ‘Āshiq-i-muḥammad q.v.

Shaikh Mazīd Kūkūldāsh—envoy of Muḥammad-i-zamān to Bābur (925) 402.

Medinī Rāo var. Mindī etc.—particulars 593 n. 5; his force at Kānwa (933) 562; holding Chanderī (934) 483, 593; Bābur negociates with him 594; his house the scene of a supreme rite 595.

Mihr-angez Begīm Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—married as a captive (913) 329 n. 1.

Mihr-bān Khānīm (see infra)—gifts to and from Bābur (935) 631, 632, 641; her husband Kūchūm Aūzbeg and their son Pūlād q.v.; a verse seeming to be addressed to her (925) 402.

Mihr-bānū Begīm Mīrān-shāhī, half-sister of Bābur (perhaps the Khānīm last entered)—particulars 18.

Mihr-nigār Khānīm Chaghatāī Chingīz-khānid, daughter of Yūnas—particulars 21, 149; joins Bābur in Kābul (911) 246; visited by him after her disloyalty (912) 315; goes to Badakhshān (913) 341; dies a prisoner 21.

Millī Sūrdūk—reprieved from death (932) 477, 478.

Mīnglī Bī Āghācha, a mistress of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 269; her sons and daughters 262-3, 266.

Mīnglīk Kūkūldāsh—leaves Samarkand (907) 147.

Minūchihr Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, brother of Abū-sa‘īd—an attributed descendant 24; his son Malik-i-muḥammad q.v.

Minūchihr Khān Turk—delayed in waiting on Bābur by a forcible marriage (925) 386, 388; on Bābur’s service in Bhīra 389; leading Daryā-khānīs (934) 589; his relation Naz̤ar-i-‘alī Turk q.v.

Mīrak—entrusted with building work (935) 642.

Mīrak Kūr Dīwān (or Gūr)—in Ālā-qūrghān when Shaibānī took Herāt (913) 328.

Mīrān-shāh Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Aūlūgh Beg Kābulī—rebels against his father and goes to Khusrau Shāh 95; sent to Bāmīān 96.

Mīrān-shāh Sult̤ān Mīrzā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, 3rd son of Tīmūr—mentioned in a genealogy 14; his daughter’s son Aḥmad Bāī-qarā q.v.; [♰810 AH.-1407-8 AD.].

Mīr Buzurg Tīrmīẕī—his daughter and granddaughter, wives of Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī 47-8, 49.

Mīrīm—Mīr Muḥammad?2910—adopted son of Aūzūn Ḥasan—killed fighting against Bābur 170; [♰908 AH.-1502 AD.].

Mīrīm Dīwān—ut supra—captured serving Bābur (904) 106; released (905) 119; discovers a rebel (912) 319.

Mīrīm Lagharī—ut supra—leaves Bābur for home (903) 91; captured serving Bābur (904) 106; killed 167; [♰904 AH.-1499 AD.].

Mīrīm-i-nāṣir Beg—ut supra—enters Bābur’s service (904) 103; one of a household-party (906) 131; in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335, 338; at social gatherings (925) 385, 388; on service 389, 391; receives his dead brother’s district 397.

Mīrīm Tarkhān—ut supra—drowned while serving Bāī-sunghar Mīrān-shāhī 74; [♰903 AH.-1497 AD.].

Mīr Khurd bakāwal—one of a boat-party (925) 388; ordered to catch pheasants 404; made Hind-āl’s guardian 408; on service (935) 640.

Mīr Mughūl, son of ‘Abdu’l-wahhāb shaghāwal—helps to defend Andijān (903) 122; his son killed (904) 102 (here Mughūl Beg); sent by Tarkhāns to invite Bābur to Samarkand (905) 122, 123; on service (925) 389 (here Beg Muḥammad Mughūl); measures Bābur’s marches (935) 658 (here Mughūl Beg); in the battle of the Ghogrā 673-4 (here Mughūl-i ‘Abdu’l-wahhāb).

Mīr Sang-tarāsh—entrusted with building-work (935) 642.

Mīrzā Beg firīngī-bāz—in Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s service (901) 58.

Mīrzā Beg Kaī-khusrawī—in Ālā-qūrghān when Shaibānī took Herī (913) 328.

Mīrzā Beg T̤aghāī, see Sl. ‘Alī M. T̤aghāī Begchīk.

Mīrzā Beg Tarkhān—in the left centre at Pānīpat (932) 472.

Wais Mīrzā Khān Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—Khān Mīrzā—son of Maḥmūd and Sult̤ān-nigār Chaghatāī—particulars 47; sent by The Khān (Maḥmūd Chaghatāī) against Samarkand (905) 122; in Tāshkīnt (908) 159; at Khusrau Shāh’s audience of submission (910) 193; demands vengeance on him 194; on service 234; disloyal (912) 313-20; captured and banished 320; rejoins Bābur from Herāt (913) 331; in the right wing at Qandahār 334; his loot 338; goes to Badakhshān on Shāh Begīm’s insistance 340-1, 342; his claim to rule in it 698 nn. 1-3; serves as a refuge for Sa‘īd Chaghatāī (915) 349 and Ḥaidar Dūghlāt 350; sends Bābur news of Shaibānī’s defeat at Merv (916) 350; invites his help in recovering their ancestral lands ib.; messenger of Bābur to Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī 352; helps him to defend Ḥiṣār (918) 359; receives him plundered 362; sends him an envoy (925) 402; loses lands to Sa‘īd Chaghatāī 695; ☛ mentioned 427; his death announced to Bābur (927) 433, 621 n. 5; his titles 21 n. 5; his guardians 26, 122; [♰927 AH.-1521 AD.].

Mīr-zādas of Khwāst—wait on Bābur (925) 399.

Mīrzā-i-malū Qārlūq?—his son Shāh Ḥusain or Ḥasan q.v.

Mīrzā Mughūl, son of Daulat-qadam-i-turk—conveys letters (932) 526-7.

Mohan Mundāhir Rājpūt—☛ a punitive expedition against him (936) 700-1; [♰936 AH.-1529 AD.?].

The Mother of the Head-man of Dikh-kat—particulars 150.

Ibrāhīm Lūdī’s Mother—receives an allowance from Bābur (932) 478; attempts to poison him (933) 541; started under guard for Kābul 543; her grandson sent to Kāmrān 544; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Mīrzā-qulī Kūkūldāsh (Mīrzā’s servant?)—with Jahāngīr (æt. 9) in Akhsī (899) 32; one of three with Bābur (908) 166, 396; fights for him in Akhsī 174-5; one of eight in flight 177; his horse fails 178; at social gatherings (925) 385, 387, 388; out with Bābur 403; behaves in his own fashion 407.

Mūātūkān Chaghatāī Chīngīs-khānid—mentioned in Yūnās Khān’s genealogy 19.

Bībī Mubāraka Yūsuf-zāī Afghān, a wife of Bābur—referred to 367 n. 3; her courtship App. K; asked and given in marriage 375, 376; a couplet suiting her 411; accompanies Mahīm to Āgra (935) 689 n. 5; ☛ her probable charge of conveying Bābur’s body to Kābul 709-10; her brother Jamāl App. K, xli; [♰ early under Akbar 963 AH.-1556 AD.].

Mubārak Khān Jilwānī—killed serving Bīban (935) 685.

Mubārak Shāh Muz̤affarī—rises in Badakhshān against Shaibānī (cir. 910) 242; invites Nāṣir Mīrān-shāhī 242, 243; defeats Aūzbegs (912) 294-5; defeats Nāṣir 321; in force (913) Author’s Note 340; invites Mīrzā Khān to Qila‘i-z̤afar 21; [♰cir. 913 AH.-1508 AD.].

Mughūl Beg, amīr of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 275.

A Mughūl servant—aims an arrow at Bābur (912) 316.

Mūḥammad, the Prophet—reference to 75; a saying on travel 184; his edicts do not include the imposition of the tamghā 555; on the duty of a wazīr 556; mentioned in the farmān and the fatḥ-nāma (933) 553, 559-574.

Khwāja Muḥammad, an old tailor of ‘Umar Shaikh’s—allays anxiety for Bābur (899) 30.

Mīr Muḥammad-i-Mahdī Khwāja—on service (925) 381.

Pahlawān Ḥajī Muḥammad—gifts made to him (935) 633.

Ustad Sult̤ān Muḥammad, a Kābul builder—orders for his work (935) 646-7.

Muḥammad ‘Alī, son of Ḥaidar kikābdār—brings a gift (925) 418; summons Humāyūn (933) 537-8; sent out for news (935) 661, 662.

Muḥammad ‘Alī bakhshī—on Abū-sa‘īd’s service and defeated by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (868) 259.

Muḥammad ‘Alī Jang-jang—in the centre at Bajaur (925) 370; at boat-parties 387, 388; his servant’s service 391, 392; his districts 392-3, 530; reinforced 412; waits on Bābur 403, 419, (932) 458; at Milwat (932) 460, 461; at Hiṣār-fīrūza 465-6; wounded 471; in the van at Pānīpat 472; on service 530, (933) 549, 550, 576, 582; in the left wing at Kānwa 557; acts unsuccessfully against Bīban and Bāyazīd (934) 589, 594, 598; pursues from near Qānūj 601; sent against Balūchīs (935) 638; his brother Arghūn and sons Tardī-muḥammad and Nan-roz q.v.

Khwāja Muḥammad ‘Alī kitābdār—messenger to Khwāja Yaḥyā (905) 124; confuses a pass word (908) 164 (here sāīrt-kīshī = sārt); captured by Taṃbal 168; fights against rebels (912) 315; in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335; in charge of treasure 338; at entertainments (925) 410, 411, 413; ☛ at Kalanūr (930) 442 (here Tājik = Sārt).

Mūḥammad ‘Alī Mubashir-beg—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; at Khūbān (905) 113; in the flight from Akhsī (908) 163; captured by Taṃbal 168; killed on service 252; his servant Sulaimān 175; [♰911 AH.-1506 AD.].

Muḥammad ‘Alī pīāda—deserts Nāṣir Mīrān-shāhī (913) 343.

Khwāja Muḥammad ‘Alī T̤aghāī—‘Asas—brother of Mahīm Begīm?—in the van at Qandahār (913) 335; meets Bābur at a crisis (914) 346; waits on Bābur (925) 399, 403; answers a military summons 408; the first to follow Bābur in renouncing wine (933) 552; at various entertainments (925) 387, 388, 400, 412, (926) 423, (935) 683; on his identity 522 n. 4; ☛ in charge of Bābur’s Āgra tomb (937) 709. Khwāja Muḥammad-amīn—out with Bābur (910) 230; deserts from Qandahār (913) 343; at a garden-wine-party (925) 418; his servant Imām-i-muḥammad ib.

Muḥammad-āmīn Khān Qāzānī, Jūgī Chīngīz-khānid—Shaibānī sends him a Herāt musician 292; [♰925 AH.-1519 AD.].

Ustād Muḥammad-amīn jībachī—attention for him desired from Khwāja Kalān (935) 647.

Muḥammad Andijānī—sent to Kābul (912) 313-4.

Muḥammad Arghūn—with Mughūls against Bābur (904) 106.

Sayyid Muḥammad-i-aūrūs Arghūn, son of Aūrūs—particulars 279.

Shāh Sult̤ān Muḥammad Badakhshī—his claim to Greek descent and his six daughters 22. (Cf. T.R. trs. p. 107.)

Mīir Muḥammad Badakhshī of Ishkīmīsh—particulars 288-9; waits on Bābur (917) 289.

Muḥammad bakhshī—on service at Qandahār (913) 338.

Muḥammad Bāqir Beg Andijānī—with Jahāngīr (899) 32; disloyal to Bābur (900) 44; with Bāī-sunghar (902) 65; leaves Bābur for home (903) 91; in Akhsī and seen in the flight (908) 189, 181; ☛ 182; his son Dost q.v.

Muḥammad Barandūq Beg Barlās Turk—particulars 270; on Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s service (901) 58; retorts on Khusrau Shāh (910) 243; retainer of Muz̤affar-i-ḥusain Bāī-qarā (911) 274, 293; acts against Shaibānī (912) 296, 297; at a feast 298; concerning Bābur’s reception at the Herī Court 299; presses him to winter in Herī 307; his plan of defence rejected (913) 326.

Muḥammad Beg Begchīk, brother of Ayūb—in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334.

Pahlawān Muḥammad Bū-sa‘īd—particulars 292.

Shāh Muḥammad dīwāna, receives a fugitive Bāī-qarā 263; his son brings Bābur news of Bīban and Bāyazīd (935) 681.

Muḥammad-dost T̤aghāī Kūnjī Mughūl, son of ‘Alī-dost—with Bābur (900) 53; remains at a crisis (903) 91; captured by Taṃbal (904) 106; released (905) 119; his self-aggrandizment 119; deserts to Taṃbal 125; negociates for him with Bābur (908) 173; blinded by the Aūzbegs 125.

Sayyid Muḥammad Dūghlāt Ḥiṣārī—enters Bābur’s service (901) 58, 59; his Mughūls desert Bābur (904) 105; conspires against Taṃbal and goes to The Khān (Maḥmūd) (907) 154; sent with Bābur against Taṃbal (908) 161.

Sult̤ān Muḥammad Dūldāī, Barlās Turk—Bābur’s messenger to Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (912) 294; returns with news of Ḥusain’s death 295; in the right centre at Qandahār (913) 335; waits on Bābur from Bajaur (925) 401; overtakes him at Jūī-shāhī 410; at a wine-party ib.; at Ḥiṣār-fīrūza (932) 465-6; in the right-wing at Pānīpat 472; given Qanūj 530; abandons it (933) 557; unwilling to return there 582; sent against Balūchīs (935) 638; ordered to Āgra 676.

Shāh Muḥammad Farmūlī Afghān, son of Ma‘rūf—particulars 675; Bābur gives him Sārūn (934) 603, 675; waits on Bābur (935) 675, 679.

Sult̤ān Muḥammad Galpuk, Itārachī Mughūl—opposing Bābur (908) 165.

Shaikh Muḥammad Ghaus̤—particulars 539; helps Bābur to gain Gūālīār (933) 539-40; intercedes for Raḥīm-dād (936) 688, 690.

Muḥammad Ḥaidar Mīrzā Dūghlāt, see Ḥaidar.

Muḥammad Ḥusain Mīrzā Kūrkān Dūghlāt, receives Aūrā-tīpā (900) 56; effects Qāsim qūchīn’s dismissal (903) 90; sent by The Khān (Maḥmūd) to help Bābur 92; lends him Pashāghar (904) 97, and Dikh-kat (907) 148; sent against Samarkand (905) 122; keeps back Aūrā-tīpā from Bābur (907) 149; goes to him in Kābul (911) 246; incites a Mughūl revolt against him (912) 313-17; captured and banished 319; ungrateful for leniency ib.; Shaibānī avenges Bābur ib.; his son Ḥaidar’s excuses for him 317 n. 3; his wife Khūb-nigār, son Ḥaidar, daughter Ḥabība q.v.; [♰914 AH.-1508 AD.].

Muḥammad Ḥusain, brother of Abū’l-ḥasan qūr-begī—joins Mīrzā Khān (912) 315; on Bābur’s service (925) 413 (here qūrchī).

Muḥammad-i-ḥusain Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Ḥusain and Mīnglī—particulars 262, 268; hostile to his father (903) 94; his flight into ‘Irāq 262.

Mīr Muḥammad jāla-bān—examines a ford through the Sind-water (Indus) (925) 378; selects a site for a pontoon-bridge across the Ganges (934) 599; examines fords above Aūd (Oudh) 602; advises about crossing the Sarū (Goghrā) 674; rewarded for his pontoon-bridge (935) 635; his raft-mishaps (925) 407, 423.

Muḥammad Jān, Najm S̤ānī’s Lord-of-the-Gate—☛ envoy to Bābur and discontented with his reception (917) 355.

Muḥammad Khalīl akhta-begī—sent raiding (933) 538; at Kānwa (933) 569.

Muḥammad Khān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid—mentioned in Yūnas Khān’s genealogy 19.

Muḥammadī Kūkūldāsh, kinsman of Bābā Qashqa (?—q.v.)—seen with Bābur by Khān-zāda (before 907 and in 916) 18; on service at Milwat (932) 458, 460; in the right centre at Pānīpat 472, 473, 475; sent against Dūlpūr 530; receives Samāna 528; in the right wing at Kānwa (933) 566, 569, 576; sends news of a second2911 Balūchī incursion (935) 605 n. 3, 638; reports action 675; ordered to Āgra 676; at various entertainments (925) 385, 388, 412.

Muḥammad-i-makhdūmī—his son Maḥmūd q.v.

Muḥammad Ma‘ṣum Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Ḥusain and Mīnglī—particulars 264, 269; his wife Bega Mīrān-shāhī q.v.; [♰907 AH.-1501-2 AD. See ḤS. iii, 290].

Mullā Muḥammad Maẕhab—profers support to Bābur (932) 463; Bābur’s envoy to Bengal (935) 637.

Muḥammad Mazīd Tarkhān Arghūn Chīngīz-khānid, son of Aūrdū-būghā—particulars 39; has charge of Nāṣir Mīrān-shāhī (899) 32; leaves Samarkand after the Tarkhān rebellion (901) 62; displeases ‘Alī Mīrān-shāhī (905) 121; plotted against ib.; invites Mīrzā Khān and Bābur 122, 123; welcomes Bābur 40, 124; joins Khusrau Shāh (906) 129; fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 139; takes refuge with Khusrau Shāh 141; at Kūl-i-malik (918) ☛ 357; killed there 39; his house a post of Bābur’s 143; [♰918 AH.-1512 AD.].

Sult̤ān Muḥammad Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—parentage 257.

Sayyid Muḥammad Mīrzā Dūghlāt, uncle of Ḥaidar—sent to help Bābur (906) 139; envoy of Sa‘īd Chaghatāī to him (917) 22; escorts his niece to Kāshghar ib.

Sult̤ān Muḥammad Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī, grandson of Tīmūr—his son Abū-sa‘īd q.v.

Sultan Muḥammad Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid—his father Abū-sa‘īd q.v.

Muḥammad mīskīn, Dūldāī Barlās, son of Ḥafiẓ—captured by Bābur’s men (903) 72.

Muḥammad Muḥsin Bāī-qarā, see Kūpūk.

Muḥammad Muqīm Beg Arghūn, son of Ẕū’n-nūn—takes possession of Kābul (908) 195 n. 3; loses it to Bābur (910) 198, 199, 227, 246246 n. 3; loses Qalāt-i-ghilzāī to him (911) 248-9; seeks his co-operation against Shaibānī (913) 330; withdraws and fails in etiquette 331-2; opposed to Bābur at Qandahār 333-7; flees in defeat 339.

Khwāja Muḥammad Muqīm Herāwī, father of Niz̤āmu’d-dīn Aḥmad the historian—☛ mentioned 691 n. 1, ☛ 692; ☛ his story of a plan to supersede Humāyūn as Pādshāh in 937 AH. 703; discussion of it 704-7; its incredibility as told 704-5.

Muḥammad Mūmin Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Badī‘u’z-zamān—Astarābād claimed for him (902) 69; defeated by an uncle 71 (where delete the ‘aīn from his name); his murder attributed to Khadīja Begim 268.

Shaikh Muḥammad Muṣalmān, ancestor of the Farmūlī Shaikh-zādas—his tomb and descendants 220.

Sult̤ān Muḥammad Muz̤affar Gujrātī, Tānk Rājpūt—particulars 481-2; his death 481; his sons Sikandar Shāh and Bahādur Khān q.v.; [♰932 AH.-1526 AD.].

Muḥammad Nūḥānī, see Bihār Khān.

Mullā Muḥammad Pargharī—loquacious (932) 453.

Muḥammad-i-qāsim Barlās—comes accidentally on Bābur (925) 417.

Muḥammad-i-qāsim Mīrzā Arlāt, son of Abū’l-qāsim (Ḥ.S. iii, 327)—his Bāī-qarā wife and their child 265; his sons (?) Bābur and Murād q.v.

Muḥammad-i-qāsim Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, son of Ḥusain and Pāpā—parentage 265.

Muḥammad-i-qāsim Nabīra, grandson of Muḥammad Sīghal—made prisoner when opposing Bābur (903) 72.

Muḥammad-i-qāsim Qībchāq Turk, son of Bāqī Chaghānīānī—leaves his family in Ajar (910) 191; father (?) of Aḥmad-i-qāsim q.v.

Muḥammad-qulī qūchīn—Mīr Shāh qūchīn—helps Bāī-sunghar’s escape from Samarkand (901) 62; with Bābur at Samarkand and wounded (902) 68; stays with him at a crisis (903) 91; captured (904) and released by Taṃbal (905) 119; in the van at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139; besieged in Samarkand 142-144; with Bābur when surprised by Taṃbal (908) 163; in the left wing at Qandahār (913) 334; in a raid (925) 403.

Muḥammad qūrchī, retainer of Khusrau Shāh—rises against the Aūzbeg occupation of Badakhshān (910) 242; expels Nāṣir Mīrān-shāhī (912) 321; keeping up his head (913) 340.

Ustād Muḥammad sabz-banā—his son Banā’ī q.v.

Maulānā Muḥammad Ṣadru’d-dīn Andijānī—his six sons’ service to Bābur 370 n. 2; his sons Khwājaka Mullā-i-ṣadr, Kīchīk Khwāja, Khwāja Kalān q.v.

Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Mīrzā Khwārizmī, author of the Shaibānī-nāma—in Khwāja Yaḥyā’s service2912 and waits on Bābur (901) 64; leaves Samarkand with the Tarkhāns (905) 121; enters Shaibānī’s service 65 n. 3; on Shaibānī’s service (910) 196 n. 5; couplets of his quoted by Bābur 120-1, 448; [♰941 AH.-1534-5 AD.].

Ustād Shāh Muḥammad sang-tarāsh—cuts an inscription (913) 343; receives orders for work (933) 585, 606, (935) 642.

Muḥammad Shāh Khīljī Turk, son of Nāṣiru’d-dīn of Mālwā—takes Chanderī and seeks Ibrāhīm Lūdī’s protection (916) 593; his young son Aḥmad q.v.; [♰931 AH.-1524 AD.?].

Muḥammad Shāh Pādshāh Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—his change of name for an orange 511 n. 4; [♰1161 AH.-1748 AD.].

Muḥammad Shaibānī, see Shaibānī.

Shaikh Muḥammad-i Shaikh Bhakarī (?)—on service (933) 382.

Shāh Muḥammad Shaikh-zāda Farmūlī Afghān, son of Ma‘rūf—leaves his Afghān associates (934) 598 (no name here); favoured by Bābur 603, 675; compelled to act with Bīban and Bāyazīd (935) 675; writes dutifully to Bābur ib.; waits on ‘Askarī and Bābur ib. and 679.

Muḥammad Sharīf munajjim (astrologer)—comes to Kābul (925) 399 and to Āgra (933) 551; augurs defeat at Kānwa 551, 576; offers congratulations on victory, blamed and banished with a gift 576.

Sult̤ān Muḥammad Sīghal, Chaghatāī—his descendants Muḥammad-i-qāsim and Ḥasan q.v. (Cf. 66 n. 4 and Ḥ.S. lith. ed. iii, 275 for tribe and title resp.).

Muḥammad Sult̤ān bakhshī—left behind to catch pheasants (925) 404; in a night-attack on Ibrāhīm’s camp (932) 471; in the left wing at Pānīpat 472; has custody of the cook who poisoned Bābur (933) 542; staff-officers at Kānwa 568; host to Bābur (935) 629; introduces a Kābul messenger 644; brings news of Maḥmūd Lūdī 653-4; writes that Bābur’s family is on its way from Kābul 657; waits on Bābur 606; his servant Shāh Qāsim q.v.

Sult̤ān Muḥammad Sult̤ān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid—Sult̤ānīm and Khānika—eldest son of The Khān (Maḥmūd)—sent to help Bābur (903) 92; his guardian and he oppose Bābur (905) 116; his part in acclaiming the standards (907) 155; goes out to meet his uncle Aḥmad (Alacha Khān) (908) 159; ☛ murdered 350; [♰914 AH.-1508 AD.].

Muhammad Sult̤ān-i-jahāngīr Mīrzā Jahāngīrī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—Samarkand given to him by his grandfather Tīmūr 85; his college 78.

Muḥammad Sult̤ān Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Wais and Sult̤ānīm—particulars 265; waits on Bābur at Kalānūr (932) 458; on Bābur’s service 468, 471, 475, 530, 534, (933) 545, 548, 582, (934) 589, (935) 682; in the left wing at Pānīpat (932) 472 and at Kānwa (933) 567, 570; gifts to him 527; given Qānūj 582; joins Bābur (935) 651; in the battle of the Ghogrā 671, 672, 674; ☛ mentioned 706 (where wrongly classed with half-Tīmūrids); once owner of the Elphinstone Codex 706 n. 3.

Beg Muḥammad ta‘alluqchī—conveys gifts to Humāyūn (Muḥ. 934) and returns (Rabī‘I, 935) 621; Bābur complains of his detention.

Muḥammad T̤āhir—captured (903) 74.

Muḥammad Tīmūr Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-Shaibān, Chīngīz-khānid, son of Shaibānī—at Samarkand (906) 128; at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 139; defeats and kills two Bāī-qarā Mīrzās (913) 263, 329-30; leaves Samarkand on Bābur’s approach (917) 354; at Ghaj-davān (918) 360; his marriages with captives 24, 36, 328 n. 1.

Mullā Muhammad t̤ālib-mu‘ammāī—an enigmatist of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s Court—particulars 201 n. 72913; a couplet of his quoted 201-2; [♰918 AH.-1512 AD.].

Pahlawān Ḥājī Muḥammad tufang-andāzī—receives gifts (935) 633.

Mullā Muḥammad Turkistānī, retainer of Khusrau Shāh—makes Qūndūz safe for Shaibānī Khān (910) 192.

Muhammad-i-‘ubaidu’l-lāh, son of Aḥrārī, see Khwāja Khwāja.

Sult̤ān Muḥammad Wais—waits on Bābur (902) 66; runs away and is suspected (907) 156; serving Bābur at Akhsī (908) 174; his retainer Kīchīk ‘Alī q.v. Muḥammad Walī Beg—particulars 277; on Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s service (901) 57, (902) 70, (903) 94.

Muḥammad-i-yūsuf Aūghlāqchī, elder son of Yūsuf—waits on Bābur (905) 125.

Mīr Muḥammad-i-yūsuf—particulars 285; waits on Bābur in Herāt (912) 285; Shaibānī instructs him in exposition (913) 329.

Muḥammad Zaitūn2914—opposing Bābur (932) 523; written to and makes false excuse 529, 530; waits on Bābur (933) 540; sent out of the way before Kānwa 547.

Khwāja Muḥammad Ẕakariya,2915 son of Yaḥyā—murdered 128; [906 AH.-1500 AD.].

Muḥammad-i-zamān Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, grandson and last surviving heir of Ḥusain—particulars 261, 269 n. 6, 279; spared by Shaibānī 263; his wanderings and association with Khwānd-amīr 364-5, 463 n. 3; sent to Bābur and married to his daughter Ma‘ṣūma-sult̤ān (923-4) 365; in Balkh 365, 522; dutiful letters and tribute sent by him to Bābur (925) 385, 402, ☛ 427, ☛ (926-932) 428; with Bābur (935) 606, 631, 639, 659; objects to the Bihār command 661-2; does homage for it and is given insignia of royalty 662, ☛ 706; starts for Bihār but is recalled 663, 664; in the battle of the Ghogrā 668, 669, 671; ☛ given Jūnpūr 682; pursues Bīban and Bāyazīd 682; grounds for surmising in Bābur the intention to leave him as ruler in Hindūstān 705-7; ☛ of his later uprisings against Humāyūn 714 n. 1; [♰drowned at Chausa 946 AH.-1539 AD.].

Muḥibb-i-‘alī Khān Barlās Turk, son of Khalīfa—☛ marries Nāhid Begim (930) 443; in a night-attack (932) 471; in the left centre at Pānīpat 472, 473; and at Kānwa (933) 565; unhorsed in ‘Abdu’l-‘azīz’ discomfiture 549-50; on service (934) 601.

Muḥibb-i-‘alī qūrchī—on Khusrau Shāh’s service (901) 60, (902) 71; joins Bābur (910) 188; Bābur’s praise of him (912) 307, 308; loyal 313, (914) 346; in the van at Qandahār (913) 335; collector of an impost (925) 384; at Ḥiṣār-fīrūza (932) 465-6; at an entertainment 410.

Muḥibb-sult̤ān Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Maḥmūd—particulars 48, 49.

Sāqī Muḥsin—wrestles (935) 660.

Muḥsin Dūldāī Barlās—at Chanderī (934) 590.

Muīnu’d-dīn al Zamjī—omitted (or lost) from Bābur’s list of Herāt celebrities 283 n. 1.

Mujāhid Khān Multānī—on Bābur’s service (933) 540.

The Mulla, see ‘Abdu’r-raḥmān Jāmī.

Mullā Bābā Farkatī—brings Bābur news of Shaibānī (913) 343.

Mullā Bihishtī—conveys gifts to Hind-al (935) 642.

Mullā Bābā Pashāgharī, Chaghatāī—comes into one of Bābur’s dreams (906) 132; at Sar-i-pul 141; envoy for Bābur to Khusrau Shāh (910) 188; loyal (912) 313, (914) 346; ☛ disloyal in Ghaznī (921) 363; deserts Humāyūn (932) 545; joins the Aūzbegs; his proceedings 546; his brother Bābā Shaikh q.v.; his Kābul garden 315.

Mullā Hijrī, a poet—waits on Bābur (907) 153.

Mullā Kabīr—his devious route to wait on Bābur (925) 399.

Mullā Khwājakā—prescribes for Bābur (925) 399 (where read Khwajakā).

Mullā Khwāja-i Sayyid Ātā—his Bāī-qarā wife 265-6.

Mullā Tabrīzī—conveys gifts (935) 642.

Mullā T̤aghāī—envoy to Bābur of Abū-sa‘īd Aūzbeg (935) 631, 632, 641.

Mūmin—suspected of the death of Nūyān Kūkūldāsh (907) 151-2.

Mūmin-i-‘alī tawāchī—conveys orders (932) 451; conveys the Kānwa Letter-of-victory to Kābul (933) 580.

Mūmin Ātākā—out with Bābur (925) 404; on service (932) 465, 534; in the left wing (tūlghuma) at Kānwa (933) 568, 569; his brethren (935) 679.

Khwāja Munīr Aūshī—incites attack on Bukhāra (902) 65.

Sayyid Murād Aūghlāqchī2916—referred to as father of Yūsūf 39 and Ḥasan 279; [♰874 AH.-1469-70 AD.].

Mūrād Beg Bāyandarī Turkmān—his joining Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (908) 280, 336.

Murād Mīrzā Arlāt, son of Muḥammad-i-qāsim and Rābi‘a-sult̤ān Mīrān-shāhī—his Bāī-qarā (?) marriage 266.2917

Murād Qajar Turkmān, qūrchī—‘Irāqī envoy to Bābur (935) 666, 688, 689, n. 4.

Mullā Khwāja Murshid ‘Irāqī—envoy of Bābur to Ibrāhīm Lūdī (925) 385, ☛ 427 n. 3; made Dīwān of Bihār (935) 661, 662.

Mīr Mūrtāẓa—particulars 284.

Musā Khwāja—whispers of Mughūl rebellion (914) 346.

Malik Musā Dilah-zāk (Dilazāk) Afghān—receives gifts (925) 394; brings tribute 409.

Musā Sult̤ān Farmūlī, son of Ma‘rūf—waits on Bābur (935) 685; in the battle of the Ghogrā 669.

Muṣt̤afa Shaikh-zāda Farmūlī Afghān—on service for Ibrāhīm Lūdī (932) 527; his brother Bāyazīd q.v.; [♰932 AH.-1525-6 AD.].

Muṣt̤afa Rūmī, tawāchī—his culverin-discharge at Pānīpat (932) 474; has carts made for defence at Kānwa (933) 550; at Kānwa 550, 568-9; at the Gangas bridge (934) 599; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 668, 669, 670.

Mū’yad—leading Daryā-khānīs for Bābur (933) 582.

Shāh Muz̤affar—particulars 291; his artist-training owed to Nawā’ī 272.

Muz̤affar Barlās—particulars 270-1.

Sult̤ān Muz̤affar Gujrātī—his death and successor 534 (where for [Jumāda II] “and” read 932); [♰932 AH.-1526 AD.].

Muz̤affar-i-ḥusāin Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Ḥusain and Khadīja—particulars 262, 268; serving under his father (901) 58, (902) 71; given Astarābād (902) 61, 69; made joint-ruler in Herī (911) 292-3; combines in action against Shaibānī (912) 296-7 and withdraws 301; fails in etiquette 297; in social relation with Bābur 298, 299, 300, 302-3; plain speech to him from Qāsim Beg 304; a false report of him in Kābul 313; irresolute in opposing Shaibānī (913) 326; his army defeated 327; flees (to Astarābād) abandoning his family ib.; his wife Khān-zāda Khānīm q.v.

Sult̤ān Muz̤affar Shāh Ḥabshī, mentioned in illustration of a Bengal custom 483.

Mīrzā Yār-i-aḥmad Najm S̤ānī̤, wazīr of Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī—his killing Sohrāb Bāī-qarā 262; ☛ his commission to correct Bābur (918) 355, 359; ☛ his massacre in Qarshī 360; ☛ slain at Ghaj-dawān 262 n. 4, 361; Bābur’s alleged failure to support him 361; his retainer Muḥammad Jān q.v.; [♰918 AH.-1512 AD.].

Nādir Shāh Afshārid—his birthplace (mod.) Qalāt-i-nādirī 329 n. 4; [♰1160 AH.-1747 AD.].

Nahār, son of Ḥasan Khān Mewātī—released by Bābur from capture (933) 545; returns to Court 578; escapes 581.

Nāhid Begīm—☛ her marriage (930) 443.

Na‘man Chuhra—captured by Taṃbal (908) 168; at a wine-party (925) 385.

Gurū Nānak Shāh—his relations with Daulat Khān Yūsuf-khail and traditionally with Bābur 461 n. 3; [♰946 AH.-1539 AD.].

Napoleon—☛ his problem of creed in Egypt less difficult than that of Bābur with Shī‘a support 356.

Nārpat Hāra Chauhān Rājpūt—his force at Kānwa (933) 562.

Nāṣir Beg—makes over Andijān to Bābur (904) 103; counsels him (908) 165; captured by Taṃbal 168; his sons Dost-, Mīrīm-, and Shāhīm-i-nāṣir; his brother-in-law Aūzūn Ḥasan q.v.

Naṣīr Khān Nūḥānī Afghān—particulars 659 n. 4; disaffected to Ibrāhīm Lūdī and unsubmissive to Bābur (932) 523; discussion of his movements 530; assembles a force but flees before Bābur’s 533-4, 544; his son Farīd q.v.

Nāṣir Mīrzā] Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of ‘Umar Shaikh—particulars 17; in Kāsān (æt. 8) (899) 32; taken to his uncle Aḥmad 32; meets Bābur (908) 172, 178; at the capture of Kābul (910) 198, 199; Zurmut hostility 220; given Nīngnahār 227; misconduct 229, 241-2; accepts an invitation to Badakhshān 242-3; has an imbroglio with Khusrau Shāh 243; clans which had left him 255; defeats Aūzbegs (912) 295; defeated by Badakhshīs and goes to Bābur 321; Bābur’s reflections on the situation 322; out with Bābur (913) 324; in the van at Qandahār 335; his loot and command and beleaguerment in Qandahār 339-40; goes to Ghaznī 343, 344; ☛ given Kābul (917) 363; ☛ returns it to Bābur (920) 363; dies in Ghaznī (921) 363; his sister Mihr-bānū and wife Qarā-gūz Bāī-qarā q.v.; [♰921 AH.-1515 AD.].

Khwāja Naṣīru’d-dīn T̤ūsī—his Astronomical Tables 79; [♰672 AH.-1274 AD.].

Sult̤ān Nāṣiru’d-dīn Khīljī Turk, Sult̤ān of Malwā—events following his death 593; his son Maḥmūd q.v.; [♰916 AH.-1510 AD.].

Naṣrat Shāh Ḥusain-shāhī, Sult̤ān in Bengal—particulars 482-3; reported friendly to Bābur (935) 628, 637; sends him an envoy 637; negociations with him 661, 664, 676; referred to as at peace with Bābur 665; mentioned 667, 677, 679; his troops defeated on the Ghogrā 671-4; peace made 676; [♰939 AH.-1532 AD.].

Naṣrat Shāh Tūghlūq Turk—receives Dihlī from Tīmūr 481 n. 4.

Naurang Beg—☛ punishes the Mundāhirs (936) 700, 701.

Nau-roz, brother of Muḥammad-‘alī Jang-jang—at Bajaur (925) 370.

Naukar Hindū, see Tūka.

Naz̤ar-i-‘alī Turk—on Bābur’s service (925) 389; his relation Minūchihr q.v.

Naz̤ar Bahādur—killed on Khusrau Shāh’s service 93, 94, 279; [♰903 AH.-1497-8 AD.].

Naz̤ar Bahādur Aūzbeg—one of five champions worsted by Bābur in single combat (914) 349 n. 1.

Shāh Naz̤ar Turkmān—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335; rebels (914) 345.

Ni‘amat Arghūn—his defeat 34.

Mullā Ni‘amat—killed in a surprise by Sangā 549; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Khwāja Ni‘amatu’l-lāh—his son Āṣafī 286 n. 2.

Nīgārsī, see Dankūsī.

Niz̤ām Khān Bīāna’ī—not submissive to Bābur (932) 523; receives letters and a quatrain from him 529; defeats Bābur’s troops (933) 538-9; waits on Bābur 539; in the left wing at Kānwa 567; on service (935) 678.

Khwājā Niz̤āmu’d-dīn Aḥṃad, the author of the Ṭabaqāt-i-akbarī, son of Muḥammad Muqīm—☛ discussion of his story of the intended supersession of Bābur’s sons 702-8; [♰1003 AH.-1594 AD.].

Sayyid Niz̤āmu’d-dīn ‘Alī Khalīfa Marghīlānī, Barlās Turk son of Junaid—escapes from prison and death (900) 55; driven from Bābur’s presence (903) 90, (905) 119; defends Kābul (912) 313; mediates (914) 345; hears rumours of Mughūl revolt 346; in the left centre at Bajaur (925) 369 and at Pānīpat (932) 473; given charge of Ibrāhīm’s corpse 474 n. 1; at Kānwa (933) 556, 558, 564-5; on service 384, 395, 666; communicates bad news at Chanderī (934) 594 and (935) 639; mediates for Raḥīm-dād 689; ☛ declines the Badakhshān government (936) 697; ☛ discussion of his plan to set Humāyūn aside (in Hindūstān?) 702-8; his seat at a feast 631; host to Bābur 408; his sons Muḥibb-i-‘alī, Ḥusamu’d-dīn-i-‘alī, Ḥamza and daughter Gul-barg q.v.

Shaikh Niz̤āmū’d-dīn Auliyā—his tomb visited by Bābur (932) 475; [♰725 AH.-1325 AD.].

Niz̤āmu’l-mulk Khawāfī, Dīwān in Herī—arrested and put to death 282; [♰903 AH.-1497-8 AD.].

Hazrat Nuḥ (Noah)—his father Lām q.v.

Nūr Beg (perhaps Sayyid Nūru’d-dīn Chaghānīānī infra)—disobeys the Law, plays the lute (925) 395; joins Bābur in an autumn garden 418; his brethren on service (932) 446; with Bābur in the East (935) 653; in the battle of the Ghogrā 673; sent to allay Rahīm-dād’s fears 688-9; his brother Shāham q.v.

Sayyid Nūru’d-dīn Chaghānīānī—Sayyid Amīr—a son-in-law of Bābur and father of Salīma-sult̤ān ☛ 713; perhaps Nūr Beg supra.

Shaikh Nūru’d-dīn Beg Turkistānī, Qībchāq Turk—grandfather, through a daughter, of Yūnas Chaghatāī 19 (see T.R. trs. p. 64).

Nūru’l-lāh t̤ambūrchī—his experience in an earthquake (911) 247.

Sayyid Nūyān Beg Tīrmīẕī—particulars 273; his son Ḥasan-i-ya‘qūb q.v.

Nūyān Kūkūldāsh Tīrmīẕī—makes a right guess (906) 131-2; on service against Shaibānī 142; his sword sent as a gift to Taṃbal (907) 150; that sword wounds Bābur’s head (908) 151, 167, 396; his suspicious death 151-152; Bābur’s grief 152; Nūyān’s uncle Ḥaq-naz̤ar q.v.; [♰907 AH.-1502 AD.].

Padmāwatī, wife of Rānā Sangā—in Rantanbhūr (935) 612; mentioned 613 n. 1; her son Bikramājīt and kinsman Asūk-māl q.v.

Pahār Khān Lūdī, see Bihār.

Pahār Mīrza, a father-in-law of Jahāngīr Mīrān-shāhī—his daughter brings her son Pir-i-muḥammad to Bābur (913) 331.

Pahlawān Aūdī (Oudhī)—wrestles (935) 683, 688.

Pahlawān Lāhorī, a boatman—wrestles (935) 656.

Pāpa Āghācha, a mistress of Ḥuṣain Bāī-qarā—particulars 266, 268-9; her five sons and three daughters ib.2918

Pāpā-aūghūlī, of Bābur’s household—out with Bābur (910) 234; at Qandahār (913) 335.

Parbat Kakar—conveys tribute to Bābur (925) 391, 392, 393.

Pasha Begīm Bahārlū, Āq-qūīlūq Turkmān, daughter of ‘Alī-shukr Beg—particulars 49; her nephew Yār-‘alī Balāl q.v.2919

Pāyanda-muḥammad Qīplān—out with Bābur (925) 404.

Pāyanda-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Abū-sa‘īd and wife of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 263, 265, 268; her son Ḥaidar and her daughters ib.; visited in Herāt by Bābur (912) 301; arranges a marriage for him 306; captured by Shaibānī (913) 327.

Pietro della Vallé—an illustration drawn from his recorded morning-draught (1623 AD.) 395.

Khwāja Pir Aḥmad Khawāfī—his son 281.

Pir Budāgh Sult̤ān, Khāqān in Desht Qībchāq (Ḥ.S. iii, 232)—his Bāī-qarā marriage 258 n. 2.

Mīr Pīr Darwesh Hazār-aspī—in charge of Balkh (857) 50; fights there ib.

Pīrī Beg Turkmān—joins Bābur (913) 336; particulars Author’s Note, 336.

Pīr Kānū of Sakhī-sarwār—Bābur halts at his tomb (910) 238.

Pīr Muḥammad Aīlchī-būghā, qūchīn—particulars 50 and nn.; drowned 48 n. 4, 50; [895 AH.-1490 AD.].

Pīr Muḥammad Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Jahāngīr—brought by his widowed mother to Bābur (913) 331.

Pīr-qulī Sīstānī—in the right wing at Pānīpat (932) 472, and at Kānwa (933) 566; on service (932) 530.

Pīr Sult̤ān Pashāī—one of Bābur’s guides (912) 308.

Prester John, Wang Khān [T.R. trs. 16], Ong Khān [Abu’l-ghāzī, Desmaisons’ trs. p. 55]—his title 23 n. 3.

Pulād Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-Shaibān Chīngīz-khānid—son of Kūchūm—Bābur sends him his earliest-mentioned Dīwān (925) 402, 632 n. 3; at Jām (934) 622; an envoy goes from him to Bābur (935) 631, 632, 641.

Pūrān (Allāh-bīrdī or Allāh-qulī)—out with Bābur (910) 234; wounded (913) 342; his father-in-law Qāsim qūchīn q.v.

Qābil (Cain)—Bābur goes alone to his tomb (925) 415.

Qādīr-bīrdī Ghainī—spoken to by Bābur when in hiding (908) 180-1.

Qāītmās Turkmān, retainer of Jahāngīr—drowned (910) 237.2920

Qalandar pīāda—on Bābur’s service (932) 529.

Qaṃbar-i-‘alī Arghūn—on Bābur’s service (935) 688.

Qaṃbar-i-‘alī Beg—mobilizes the Hindūstān army by Abū-sa‘īd’s order (873?) 46;

expelled from Khurāsān with Maḥmū Mīrān-shāhī 47.

Qaṃbar-i-‘alī Beg qūchīn, son of Qāsim—races with Bābur (?) (907) 147; wounded, brings Bābur a message (908) 174; one of the eight in flight from Akhsī 177; gives Bābur his horse 177-8; beats down snow for a road (912) 308-9; fights rebels in Kābul 315; at Qandahār (913) 334; wounded 336; hurries from Qūndūz against rebels in Ghaznī (921) 364; brings Bābur a letter from Balkh (?) (925) 385.

Qaṃbār-i-‘alī Beg Silākh, Mughūl—particulars 28; his inconvenient absence (904) 106; recalled (905) 108; goes away 110; returns 112; in the van at Khūbān 113; goes away 115; returns and is ill-tempered 117; his districts 115, 124; his ill-timed pacificism 118; his misconduct 123; goes to Taṃbal, made prisoner, escapes to Bābur 124; on Bābur’s service (906) 130, 131; at Sar-i-pul 138, 139; sends his family out of Samarkand 141;? races with Bābur (907) 147;? leaves Bābur in Dikh-kat 150 n. 3; conspires against Taṃbal and goes to The Khān (Maḥmūd) 154; serves Bābur against Taṃbal (908) 161, 162, 165, 166; counsels Bābur distastefully and flees 168, 170; talks to him of peace with Taṃbal 173; made prisoner in Akhsī against Bābur’s wish 174; leaves Khusrau Shah for Bābur (910) 189; dismissed by Bābur and why 192, 532 n. 1; his son ‘Abdu'-shukūr q.v.

Qaṃbar Bī Aūzbeg—blamed by Shaibānī for three murders (906) 128; on service for him (910) 242, 244; defeated by T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawī’s men (934) 622.

Qarā Aḥmad yūrūnchī—Bābur’s messenger to the Kābul begs (912) 314.

Qarā Barlās—leaves Samarkand with the Tarkhāns (905) 121; fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (906) 139; besieged and holds out to the end 143, 144.

Sayyid Qarā Beg Kohbur Chaghatāī—remains with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; invited into Akhsī (for Bābur) (904) 101; escapes after defeat 106; at Khūbān (905) 113; released 1192921; his (?) hasty retreat to entrenchments (906) 138, 232 n. 4; his son ‘Abdu’l-qadūs q.v.

Qarā Bīlūt—surrenders Qalāt-i-ghilzāī to Bābur (911) 248-9.

Qaracha Khān—punished for disobedience (925) 390-1; on service (934) 602, (935) 638; his messenger with news of Mahīm’s journey 650, 659.

Qārā-gūz Begīm Arlāt—her marriage with Nāṣir Mīrān-shāhī 265.

Qarā-gūz Begīm, see (1) Makhdūma, (2) Rābi‘a-sult̤ān.

Qarā-qūzī—on Bābur’s service (932) 471; in the left-wing [tūlghuma] at Pānīpat 473.

Qārlūghāch Bakhshī kills Mughūl Beg’s son (904) 102.

Qashqa Maḥmūd (or Qāshqa), Beg of the Chīrās tūmān of Mughūls—sent to help Bābur (906) 138; quarrels with a Begchīk for the military post of honour (907) 155. (He may be “Bābā Qashqa” q.v.)

Mullā Qāsim—building work given to him (935) 642.

Sayyid Qāsim (p. 96), see Sayyid Kāmal.

Qāsim-i-‘ajab Beg—remains with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; promoted to beg’s rank (904) 104; captured by Taṃbal’s men (905) 115-6; released 119.

Qāsim-i-‘alī tariyākī—musician at entertainments (925) 385, 387, 388.

Qāsim Beg qūchīn—particulars 26; supports Bābur (899) 30, (900) 43; his appointments 43, 44 (where delete Sayyid as his title); punishes misconducted Mughūls (902) 66-7, 153 and has to leave Bābur (907) 27, 67; on missions (903) 90, (904) 100, 101; remains with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; defeated by Mughūls (904) 105-6; in the centre at Khūbān (905) 113; banished from Andijān by ‘Alī-dost 119; rejoins Bābur for Samarkand 123, (906) 130; suspects Banā’ī 136; in the centre at Sar-i-pul 139; defending Samarkand 141, 142, 143, 144; races with Bābur (907) 147; advises a tactful gift 150; out with Bābur (910) 234; rewarded (911) 252; goes with a punitive force to Nigr-aū 253; a saying of his twisted for ill 254; defeats Aūzbegs (912) 295; insists in Herāt on ceremony due to Bābur 298; angered by Bābur’s being pressed to drink wine 304; mistaken as to a route 308-9; mistakenly compassionate 313; allowed to keep his Fifth of spoil (913) 324; in the left wing at Qandahār 334, 335; wounded 336; retainers allotted to him 339; his counsel 339-40; mediates for suspects (914) 345; waits on Bābur returned from Hindūstān (925) 395; mediates for Tramontane clans to leave Kābul 402; Bābur breaks fast at his house 408; his sons Ḥamza, Tīngrī-bīrdī, Qaṃbar-i-‘alī q.v.; his ill-conducted nephew 414; a servant 313; a father-in-law Banda-i-‘alī q.v.; [♰928 AH.-1522 AD.].

Qāsim Duldāī, Barlās Turk—serving Bāī-sunghar Mīrān-shāhī (902) 65;

joins Bābur 66.

Qāsim-i-ḥusain Aūzbeg-Shaibān, son of Qāsim and ‘Āyisha-sult̤ān Bāī-qarā—particulars 267, 298; joins Bābur (933) 550; at Kānwa 556, 559; receives Badāūn 582; on service 582, (934) 589, (935) 682; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 669; mentioned 631 n. 4, ☛ 706.

Sayyid Qāsim Jalāīr—wins the Champion’s Portion at Asfara (900) 53; takes it at Shāhrukhiya 53; stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; joins him for Samarkand (905) 123-4; at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139; his strange doings in Pāp (908) 171; his unseasonable arrival in Akhsī 174; defeats an Aūzbeg raider (910) 195; out with Bābur 234, (925) 403; drunk 415; Bābur pays him a consolation-visit 418; a party in his country-house (926) 420; assigned to reinforce Khwājā Kalān in Kābul (935) 647.

Qāsim Khān Qāzzāq, Jūjī Chīngīz-khānid—his marriage with Sult̤ān-nigār Chaghatāī 23; his good administration 23-4; [♰924 AH.-1518 AD.].

Qāsim Khītka (?) Arghūn, (var. Jangeh)—in Akhsī (908) 171.

Qāsim Khwāja—succeeds in his brother Yakka’s appointments (935) 674; on service 682.

Qāsim Kūkūldāsh—at a household party (906) 131 (his name is omitted from the Ḥai. MS. f. 83 and from my text); helps Bābur at his mother’s burial (911) 246; at Qandahār (913) 335; his Arghūn marriage 342, 199 n. 1, ☛ 443.

Qāsim Mīr-akhẉūr—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; on service (933) 548.

Malik Qāsim Mughūl, brother (p. 568) of Bābā Qashqa—in the right-wing [tūlghuma] at Pānīpat (932) 473, and at Kānwa (933) 568; on service with his brethren (932) 528, (933) 558, 582, (934) 589; his good service near Qanūj and his death 599; his kinsmen, see s.n. Bābā Qashqa; [♰934 AH.-1528 AD.].

Shāh Qāsim pīāda—sent on a second mission to Bābur’s kinsfolk in Khurāsān (935) 617.

Qāsim Saṃbhalī—not submissive to Bābur (932) 523; surrenders 528, 529; sent out of the way before Kānwa (933) 547 (where the Ḥai. MS. adds “Beg”, by clerical? error).

Qāsim Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-Shaibān Chīngīz-khānid—his Bāī-qarā marriage 267; at a reception (912) 298; his son Qāsim-i-ḥusain q.v.

Qātāq Begīm, wife of Aḥmad Mīrān-shāhī—particulars 36; of Aḥmad’s escape from her dominance 36 n. 1.

Qayyām Beg—Aūrdū (Ūrdū) Shāh—out with Bābur (925) 403; waits on Bābur as Governor of Nīngnahār (926) 421; joins him in Hindūstān (933) 550 (here Qawwām Aūrdū-shāh); at Kānwa 556, 569.

Qāẓī Bihzādī—Bābur forbids unlawful drinks in his house (925) 398.

Qāẓī Ghulām—escapes death by pretending to be a slave (904) 102.

Qāẓī Jīā—waits on Bābur (932) 527; on service 530, (933) 544, (935) 639; joins Bābur 667; on service 668, 682.

Qāẓī of Kābul—waits on Bābur (925) 395.

Qāẓī of Samāna—☛ complains of Mundāhir attack (936) 693, 700.

Qismatāī Mīrzā—on Bābur’s service in Hindūstān (932) 474, (933) 545, 546-7, 548; his untimely praise of the Rājpūt army 548, 550.

Qilka Kāshgharī—escapes death (904) 102.

Qīzīl tawāchī—messenger of Shāh Beg Arghūn to Bābur (925) 395.

Qublāī Khān, great-grandson of Chīngīz Khān—his building at Qarshī 84 n. 2; [♰693 AH.-1294 AD.].

Qūch Beg (Qūj), son of Aḥmad qarāwal—in the left wing at Khūbān (905) 113; his courage at Bīshkharān 118; leaves Bābur for Ḥiṣār (906) 129;? reprieved at Qāsim qūchīn’s request (914) 345; on Bābur’s service (925) 374, (925) 384; at Parhāla 390; comes on summons to Kābul 409; referred to as dead (933) 565; his brother Tardī Beg q.v.

Qūch Arghūn—allotted in Qalāt to Qāsim qūchīn (913) 339.

Qūch Beg Kohbur Chaghatāī, son of Ḥaidar-i-qāsim—at Sar-i-pul (906) 139; in Samarkand besieged 142, 143, 144.

Qul-arūk—drowned in the Sind-water (910) 237.

Qul-bāyazīd bakāwal—particulars 237; swims the Sind-water (910) 237; at Qandahār (913) 335, 338; his son Tīzak q.v.; his tomb near Kābul 198.

Qulī Beg Arghūn—known as attached to Bābur (913) 337; returns from an embassy to Kāshghar (925) 415; his brother Aḥmad-‘alī Tarkhān q.v.

Qūlij Bahādur Aūzbeg—mentioned in T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawi’s account of Jām (935) 636 n. 2.

Mīrzā Qūlī Kūkūldāsh, see Mīrzā-qulī.

Qulī-muḥammad Būghdā qūchīn—particulars 40.

Ustād Qul-muḥammad ‘Aūdī]—particulars 291; his musical training owed to Nawa’ī 272.

Qul-nachāq—holding Balkh for the Bāī-qarās (912) 294, 296; surrenders it to Shaibānī 300.

Qul-naz̤ar of T̤aghāī Beg—sallies out from Samarkand (906) 142; does well 144.

Qurbān Chīrkhī—sent into Bhīra (925) 381; a false rumour about him as invited into Balkh (935) 625; gifts to his servants 633; in the battle of the Ghogrā 669; on service 678.

Qus̤am ibn ‘Abbās, one of the Companions—his tomb at Samarkand 75.

Qusum-nāī (?)—on service (932) 534.

Qut̤b Khān Sarwānī—not submissive to Bābur (932) 523; Mahdī Khwāja sent against him in Etāwa 530; takes Chandwār (933) 557; abandons both places 579, 582; defeated 587.

Khwāja Qut̤bu’d-dīn Aūshī (Ūshī)—his birthplace in Farghāna 475 n. 6; Bābur visits his tomb in Dihlī (932) 475; [♰633 AH.-1235 AD.].

Qūtlūq Khwāja Kūkūldāsh—with Bābur in Samarkand (906) 143, 144; host to Bābur (925) 398, 407; held up as an example 406.

Qūtlūq-muḥammad Kūkūldāsh, foster-brother of Daulat-sult̤ān Khānīm—brings Bābur letters from Kāshghar (925) 409 (where for “Daulat” read Qūtlūq).

Qūtlūq-nigār Khānīm Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, mother of Bābur—particulars 21; mentioned 17, 19; in Andijān (900) 43; entreats her son’s help (903) 88, 89; sent to join him in Khujand 92, and in Aūrā-tīpā (905) 136; her Mughūls rebel (904) 105; with Bābur in Samarkand (906) 136; leaves the town with him (907) 147; hears of a sister’s death 148-9; goes to her own family in Tāshkīnt 149; her dangerous illness ib.; her safety leaves Bābur free (908) 157, 158; ☛ with him in Sūkh 184; uses his tent in the exodus from Farghāna (910) 188; left in Kāhmard 189; crosses Hindū-kush and rejoins him in Kābul 197; her death (911) 21, 246; her treatment as a refugee in Tāshkīnt (908) contrasted with that of her refugee-relations in Kābul (912) 318; her concern for her son’s marriage affairs (905) 120, (910) 48; her old governess 148; [♰911 AH.-1505 AD.].

Qūtlūq-qadam qarāwal—out with Bābur (910) 236-7; in the left-centre at Qandahār (913) 335; on service (925) 403, (932) 458, 460, 468, 471, 530; in the left wing at Pānīpat 472 and at Kānwa (933) 567, 570; on service 475; host to Bābur (926) 424; his tomb and bridge near Kābul 198, 204; [♰934 AH.-1528 AD.?].

Qūtlūq-sult̤ān Begīm, daughter of Mīrān-shāh son of Tīmūr—wife of Ḥusain Qānjūt 256 n. 5.

Rābi‘a-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—Qarā-gūz Begīm—daughter of Aḥmad—particulars 13, 35.

Sayyid Rafī‘u’d-dīn Ṣafawī—Mullā Rafī‘—mediates for Niz̤ām Khān with Bābur (933) 539; concocts tonic powders (935) 606; at a feast 631.

Khwāja Raḥīm-dād, paternal-nephew of Mahdī Khwāja—receives and obtains possession of Gūālīar (933) 539, 540, 547; his quarters and constructions there (935) 607, 610, 613; Bābur sleeps in his flower-garden 612, 613; action against him as seditious 688-9, (936) 690; his son held as hostage and escapes (935) 688-9; ☛ Ibn Batuta’s account of him 692 n. 1; ☛ no sequel of his rebellion mentioned in the Akbar-nāma 692.

Raḥmat pīāda—conveys letters to Kābul (932) 466.

Rāja of Kahlūr—☛ waits on Bābur (936) 699.

Rajab-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Maḥmūd—particulars 48, 49.

Ramẓān lūlī—a musician at parties (925) 387, 388.

Rāo Sarwānī, see Dāūd.

Sult̤ān Rashīd Khān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, son of Sa‘īd and Makhtūm Qālūchī (T.R. trs. p. 187)—his Qāzzāq marriage 23.

Mr. Thomas Rastel—an illustration drawn from his morning-draught recorded [1623 AD.] 395.

Rānā Ratan-sī—successor of his father Sangā in Chītor 613; mentioned in connection with the Khīljī jewels ib.; his younger brother Bikramājīt q.v.

Rauḥ-dam—musician at entertainments (925) 385, 387, 388; in a raft-misadventure 407.

Rawū’ī Sarwānī (Rāo)—serving Bābur (933) 538 (here read as Dāūd), (935) 682; host to Bābur (934) 588.

Rīnīsh (var. Zīnīsh) Aūzbeg—his defeat by T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawī (934) 618, 622 (where in n. 1 for “934” read 935 as the date of the battle of Jām); [♰934 AH.-1528 AD.].

A Rūmī prescribes for Bābur (935) 657, 660.

Rāja Rūp-narāin—included in Bābur’s Revenue List 521.

Ruqaiya Aghā, wife of Badī‘u’z-zamān Bāī-qarā—captured in Herāt and married by Tīmūr Aūzbeg 328.

Ruqaiya-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of ‘Umar Shaikh—particulars 18, 19; [♰cir. 935 AH.-1528 AD.].

Rūstam-i-‘alī Turkmān—in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335; on service (925) 377, (933) 538; in the tūlghuma of the left-wing at Kānwa 568, 569.

Rustam Khān—Ilīās (p. 576)—captures Bābur’s commander at Kūl (Koel) (933) 557, 576; captured and flayed alive 576.

Sa‘ādat-bakht Begīm—Begīm Sult̤ān—Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Ḥusain—particulars 266-7.

Nāṣiru’d-dīn Sabuktīgīn Ghaznawī Turk—the humble status of his capital 217; a legend concerning him 219; his son Maḥmūd q.v.; [♰387 AH.-997 AD.].

Sadharān Tānk Rājpūt—his acceptance of Islām 481 n. 5.

Pahlawān Ṣādiq—made to wrestle (935) 650; forbidden as an antagonist 653; wrestles 688.

Mullā Sa‘du’d-dīn Mas‘ūd Taftazānī—a descendant of 283; [♰792 AH.-1390 AD.].

Sult̤ān Sa‘īd Khān Ghāzī, Chaghatāī Chīnqīz-khānid, son of Aḥmad—particulars 698 nn. 2, 3, 349; meets Bābur (908) 159; stays with him in Kābul (914) 318, 349-50; receives Andijān from him (916) 318, 357; loyal to him 344 n. 2, ☛ 351-2; sends an envoy to him (917) 22; Ḥaidar Dūghlāt goes from Bābur to Sa‘īd (918) 362; two kinswomen take refuge with him (923 and 924) 24 (where in n. 1 delete the second sentence); reported to have designs on Badakhshān (925) 412; an envoy to him returns 415; ☛ named as a principal actor between 926 and 932 AH. 427; writes and sends gifts to Bābur (932) 446; ☛ invades Badakhshān (936) 695-6; ☛ gist of a letter from Bābur to him 697-8; ☛ Bābur moves menacingly for the North-west 698; his full-brother Khalīl, his son Rashīd, his wife Ḥabība, and kūkūldāsh Yāngī Beg q.v.; [♰939 AH.-1533 AD.].

Sa‘īdlīq Sa‘d Turkmān—defeated by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (873?) 260.

Saif-i-‘alī Beg Bahārlū Qarā-qūīlūq Turkmān, father of Bairām Khān-i-khānān—particulars 91 n. 3.2922

Maulānā Saifī Bukhārī—‘Arūẓī—particulars 288; [♰909 AH.-1503-4 AD.].

Saif Khān Nūḥānī, son of Daryā Khān—deserts ‘Ālam Khān Lūdī (932) 457.

Saifu’d-dīn Aḥmad, Shaikhu’l-islām in Herāt—particulars 283; takes the keys of Herāt to Shaibānī (913) 328; his pupil Muḥammad-i-yūsuf q.v.; killed by Shāh Ismā‘īl 283; [♰916 AH.-1510 A.D.].

Ḥājī Saifu’d-dīn Beg,? uncle of Tīmūr—his descendant Walī Beg 272.

Sakma Mughūl—rebels against Bābur (914) 345.

Ṣalāḥu’d-dīn (Silhādī)—particulars 562 n. 3, 614 n. 2; his force at Kānwā (933) 562; attack on him planned and abandoned (934) 598; Bābur visits village near his birthplace (935) 614; mentioned 628 n. 2.

Ṣāliḥa-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī, daughter of Maḥmūd and Pasha, wife of Bābur—(name not now in the Turkī text) 47; ☛ the likelihood that she and “Dil-dār” were one 713 (where read Ṣāliḥa).

Ṣāliḥa-sult̤ān Mīrān-shāhī—Āq Begīm—daughter of Aḥmad and Qātāq—particulars 35; gifts from her wedding reach Bābur (900) 43.

Salīma-sult̤ān Begīm—☛ her parentage 713.

Sult̤ān Sālīm Rūmī—takes Badī‘u-z-zamān Bāī-qarā, a captive, to Constantinople (920) 327 n. 5; ☛ defeats Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī at Chāldirān (920) 443, 469; [♰926 AH.-1520 AD.].

Ṣamad Mīnglīghī—wounded and dies 106; [♰904 AH.-1499 AD.].

Mehtar Saṃbhal, slave of Shāh Beg Arghūn—particulars 338 n. 2; captured at Qandahār and escapes (913) 338; ☛ Commander in Qandahār and revictuals it for Shāh Beg 432.

Sult̤ān Sanjar Barlās Turk, son of ‘Abdu’l-lāh—incites a Mughūl revolt in Kābul (912) 313-17; spared on family grounds 317.

Sult̤ān Sanjar Mīrzā Mervī—his daughter Bega Sult̤ān Begīm’s Bāī-qarā marriage (cir. 860) 267.

Rānā Sangā Mewārī—particulars 483, 558 n. 2; his capture of Chanderī 593; proffers Bābur co-operation against Ibrāhīm Lūdī (931?) 426, 529; fails him (932) 529; takes Kandār 530, 539; Bābur’s attack on him deferred 530-1 and determined (933) 538; his strength and approach 544, 547; defeated at Kānwa 559-574; escapes 576; references to the battle 267, 533, 579, 582, 583, 599, 600, 630 n. 4, 637, 663; his lands not invaded, on climatic grounds 577, 578; Bābur’s planned attack on him in Chītor frustrated (934) 598; his wife Padmāwatī and sons Ratan-sī and Bikramājīt̤ q.v.; his trusted man Medinī Rāo q.v.; [♰934 AH.-1528 AD.].2923

Sangur Khān Janjūha—waits on Bābur (925) 383; on service 389, 419; killed in a sally from Bīāna 548; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Mīr Sar-i-barhana, see Shamsu’d-dīn Muḥammad.

Sārīgh-bāsh Mīrza Itārachī—sent by The Khān (Maḥmūd) to help Bābur (908) 161, 170.

Mullā Sarsān—Kāmrān’s messenger and custodian of Ibrāhīm Lūdī’s son (933) 544.

Sar-u-pā Gujūr—Bābur’s guide to Parhāla (925) 389, 391.

Satrvī Kachī—his force at Kānwa (933) 562.

Sult̤ān Sātūq-būghra Khān Ghāzī Pādshāh (b. 384 AH.-994 AD.).—a surmised descendant 29 n. 8; his style Pādshāh 344 n. 2.

Sayyid Amīr, see Nūru’d-dīn Chaghanīānī.

Sayyid Dakkanī—Shāh T̤āhir Khwāndī Dakkani—present at a feast (935) 631.2924

Sayyid Daknī Shīrāzī, or Ruknī, or Zaknī—receives honours and orders (935) 619; on his name and work ib. n. 2, 634 n. 1; (see supra).

Sayyidī Beg T̤aghāī, see Sherīm T̤aghāī.

Sayyidīm ‘Alī darbān (? Muhammad-‘alī), son of Bābā ‘Alī Beg—particulars 307; serving Khusrau Shāh (901) 60-1; leads the Rustā-hazāra to join Bābur (910) 196; a follower punished 197; takes Bāī-qarā service (912) 307; drowned by Badī‘u’z-zamān 307-8; [♰cir. 913 AH.-1507 AD.].

Sayyid Mashhadī (var. Masnadī)—brings Bābur news of Khwāja Raḥīmdād’s sedition (935) 688.

Sayyid Mīrzā Andikhūdī,? brother of Apāq Begīm—his two Bāī-qarā marriages 267.

Sayyid Rūmī—at a feast (935) 631.

Sayyid T̤abīb Khurāsānī—attends Bābur’s mother (911) 247.

Shād Begīm Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—particulars 263-4; her husband ‘Ādil Sult̤ān Aūzbeg q.v.

Shādī, a reciter—his son Ghulām-i-shadī 292.

Shādī Khān Kīwī Afghān—fights and submits to Bābur (910) 233.

Shādmān chuhra—wrestles (935) 660.

Shāh Bābā bīldār—entrusted with building work (935) 642.

Shah-bāz qalandar—his tomb destroyed by Bābur (925) 377.

Shah-bāz Qārlūq—serving Taṃbal (908) 170.

Shāh Beg Arghūn—Shuja‘ Beg—son of Ẕū’n-nūn—his close association with his father 274; mentioned as with him in Qandahār (902) 71, (910) 198, 227; they give refuge to Badī‘u’z-zamān Bāī-qarā (902) 71, (913) 307; act with the Mīrzā (903) 94, 95; favoured by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā 264; his dominance ib.; proffers and renounces co-operation with Bābur against Shaibānī (913) 330, 331-2; loses Qandahār to him 337-8; ☛ released from Ṣafawī imprisonment by his slave Saṃbhal’s devotion (917) 338 n. 2, 365; news of his taking Kāhān reaches Bābur (925) 395; his interpretation of Bābur’s reiterated attack on Qandahār 365, ☛ 427; other suggestions for the attack of 926 AH. 430; ☛ action of his checks an expedition into Hindūstān (926) 428, 429, 430; ☛ his position and political relations 429; Bābur’s campaign against Qandahār (926-928) 366, 430-436, App. J. xxxiv; ☛ final surrender to Bābur (928) ib.; ☛ his death 437, 443; his son Shāh Ḥasan, brother Muḥammad Muqīm, slave Mehtar, commissary Qīzīl q.v.; [♰930 AH.-1524 AD.?].

Shāh Begīm Badakhshī, wife of Yūnas Khān Chaghatāī—particulars 22-3; visited by Bābur (903) 92, (907) 149, (908) 157; delays to accept his plans 158; meets her younger son Aḥmad 159; ☛ ordered by Shaibānī to stay in Tāshkīnt 184; comes to Bābur in Kābul (911) 246; disloyal (912) 317; his reflections on her conduct 318-9; goes to Badakhshān (913) 21, 35, 341; captured by Abā-bikr Kāshgharī; her sons Maḥmūd and Aḥmad, her daughter Daulat-sult̤ān, her nephew Sanjar Barlās; her grandsons Mīrzā Khān and Sa‘īd (and his brothers) q.v.

Shāh-i-gharīb Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Ḥusain and Khadīja—particulars 261, 268; his retainer Āhī the poet 289 n. 3; [♰902 AH.-1496-7 AD.—Ḥ.S. lith. ed. iii, 260].

Shāhī qalandar—plays the ribāb (925) 417.

Shāhī t̤amghāchī—appointed clerk (935) 629.

Shāhīm (Shāh Muḥammad?)—sent for news (932) 454; climbs into Chanderī (934) 595 (here yūz-bāshī); his brother Nūr Beg q.v.

Shahīm-i-nāṣir—one of eight fugitives from Akhsī (908) 177.

Shāh-jahān Pādshāh Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—☛ 184; his imitation of Bābur (1030) 298 n. 3; ☛ his work in Bābur’s burial-garden 710, App. V, lxxx; [♰1076 AH.-1666 AD.].

Shāh Muhammad muhrdār, son of Bābā Qashqa—on Bābur’s service (925) 388, (935) 688; his kinsmen see s.n. Bābā Qashqa; [♰958 AH.-1551 AD.].2925

Shāh-qulī ghichakī—a guitar-player—particulars 291.

Shāh-qulī Kūl-ābī—goes into Ḥiṣāt (935) 640; his brother Wais q.v.

Shāh-qulī,? servant of Div Sult̤ān (p. 635)—sent to give Bābur a report of the battle of Jām (935) 649; conveys from Bābur an acceptance of excuse to T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawī 649.

Shahrak—conveys letters and a copy of Bābur-nāma writings (935) 652, 653.

Shahr-bānū Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Abū-sa‘īd—particulars 268; married to Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (cir. 873) and divorced (876) 21 n. 1, 268.

Shahr-bānū Begīm Mīrān-shāhī, (ut supra), daughter of ‘Umar Shaikh, wife of Junaid Barlās—particulars 18.

Shāhrūkh Mīrza Barlās Turk, son of Tīmūr—mentioned in a genealogy 14; ruling in Herāt when Ḥusain Bāī-qarā was born there (842) 256; his wazīr serves Ḥusain (after 873) 281; [♰850 AH.-1447 AD.].

Shāhrukh-Sult̤ān Afshār Turk—commands a reinforcement for Bābur from Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī (917) 354.

Shāh Ṣufī—does well in Samarkand (906) 144.

Shāh Sult̤ān Begīm (? Arghūn), wife of Ābū-sa‘īd Mīrān-shāhī and mother of ‘Umar Shaikh—her parentage not stated 13 n. 5,2926 45 n. 1; goes from Akhsī to Andijān when widowed (899) 32; a mediator (905) 113; her death announced (907) 149; [♰906 AH.-1501 AD.].

Shāh-suwār Mughūl—fights in single combat (904) 106.

Shāh T̤ahir Khwāndī Dakkanī, see Sayyid Dakkanī.

Shāh-zāda,? Shāh Ḥasan Arghūn—(926) 417, 418.

Shāh-zādā Mungīrī, son of Naṣrat Shāh—negociates with Bābur (935) 676 (where the note reference “5” should follow Mungir).

Shaibak pīāda—brings news of Hind-āl’s birth (925) 385.

A Shaibān-Aūzbeg Sult̤ān’s marriage 23.

Muḥammad Shaibānī Khān—Shaibāq Khān2927—Aūzbeg-Shaibān Chīngīz-khānid—his relations with Ḥamza and Mahdī Sult̤āns q.v.; invited to help Bāī-sunghar (903) 73; raids Shīrāz 92; defeats Tarkhāns in Dabūsī (905) 40, 124, (906) 137; takes Bukhārā 125; is given Samarkand by ‘Alī Mīrān-shāhī 125; murders the Mīrzā (906) 128; his men murder Khwāja Yaḥyā and two sons 128; loses Samarkand by Bābur’s surprise attack 131, 132, 134; Bābur’s comparison of this capture with Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s of Herāt 135; Bābur’s estimate of Shaibāni’s position 137-8; defeats Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 138-141; besieges Samarkand and effects its surrender (906) 142-7; receives an envoy from Ḥusain Bāī-qarā 145; crosses the frozen Saiḥūn and raids Shahrukhiya 151; plunders Aūrā-tīpā 152-3; referred to (908) 158, 168; invited into Farghāna 172; defeats the Chaghatāī Khāns and Bābur at Archīān 18, ☛ 183; captures Andijān (909?) 192; beheads Walī Qībchāq (910) 196; takes Khwārizin (911) 242, 255-6; co-operation against him invited by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (910) 190, (911) 255; his men beaten in Badakhshān (911-2) 294-5; takes Balkh 300; his capture of Herāt (913) 263, 275, 296-7, 325-330; besieges Nāṣir Mīrān-shāhī in Qandahār and retires 339-40, 343; a recognized menace to Kābul 21 n. 4, 340, 342; orders Sa‘īd Chaghatāī’s death (914) 349; ☛ murders Chaghatāī and Dughlāt chiefs 350; war begun with Shāh Ismā‘īl (915) 350; defeated and killed at Merv 350; his wives Mihr-nigār Chaghatāī, Khān-zāda Mīrān-shāhī, Zuhra Aūzbeg q.v.; his sons Tīmūr and Khurram q.v.; Banā’ī his retainer (906) 136; creates a Tarkhān 133; [♰915 AH.-Dec. 1510 AD.].

Shaikhī—receives gifts (935) 633.

Shaikhīm Beg, amīr and poet of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā—particulars 277, 286; [♰918 AH.-1512-3 AD.].

Shaikhīm Mīrzā Aūzbeg—holding Qarshī for his nephew ‘Ubaidu’l-lāh (918) 360.

Shaikhīm mīr-shikār—loses one of Bābur’s good hawks (925) 394.

Shaikhī nāyī, flautist in Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s Court—particulars 291; owed his training to Nawā’ī 272.

Shaikh Sharaf Qarā-bāghī—his arrest for sedition (935) 687-8.

Shaikh Sharafu’d-dīn Munīrī—his father Shaikh Yaḥyā Chishtī 666; his writings read aloud to Akbar 666 n. 7; [♰782 AH.-1380 AD.].

Shāmī (Syrian)—deserts from Qandahār (913) 343.

Sher-afgan, brother of Tardī and Qūj Begs—on Bābur’s service (933) 538.

Sher-i-aḥmad—belittled as good company (935) 648.

Sherak Beg Argūn (var. Sher, Sherka)—serving Muqīm Arghūn (910) 195; defeated and takes service with Bābur 196, 198; in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335.

Sher-i-‘alī Aūghlān,2928 Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khanīd—mentioned in Yūnas Khān’s genealogy 19.

Sher-i-‘alī chuhra (a brave?)—deserts Bābur (906) 129; put to death under suspicion (911) 248.

Mīr Sher Ḥājī Beg Kūnjī Mughūl—his daughter’s marriage with Yūnas Khān 20 (where for “‘Alī-sher” read Sher Ḥājī).

Sherīm (Sher-i-muhammad?) chuhra, a brave?—defends Ḥiṣār (910) 244; killed at Qūndūz ib.; [♰910 AH.-1505 AD.].

Sherīm T̤aghāī Kūnjī Mughūl—T̤aghāī Beg—maternal uncle of Bābur’s mother—supports Bābur (899) 29, (903) 91, 98; captured by Taṃbal (905) 110; released 119; in Samarkand (906) 141, 143, 188; Bābur’s reflections on his conduct 141, 188; thinks of leaving Bābur (910) 188; on his service 194, 197, 234; loses an index-finger 235; his post against rebels (912) 314; an opinion on game (kiyīk) (913) 325; in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334, 337; counsels a retreat to Badakhshān from Kābul 340; ☛ disloyal (916) 351; heads Mughūl revolt in Ghaznī (921) 363; defeated 364, 397; takes refuge with Bābur 364; his son Tūqā q.v.; his (and other) abbreviated names 29 n. 2.

Sherīm Z̤ikr Beg—put to death in Kābul under ‘Abdu’r-razzāq (909?) 195 n. 3.

Sher Khān Lūdī Afghān, son of ‘Ālam Khān—on his father’s service (932) 455.

Sher Khān Sūr Afghān—Farīd Khān—Sher Shāh—favoured by Bābur (934) 652; serving Maḥmūd Lūdī (935) 652; co-guardian of Jalāl Khān Nūḥānī with Dūdū Bībī 652 n. 1, 664 n. 2; writes dutifully to Bābur 659; his training, cognomen and one of his marriages 664 n. 2, 659659 n. 4; his victory over Humāyūn (1540) 652 n. 3.

Sher Khān Tarkalānī—host to Bābur (926) 424.

Sher-qulī qarāwal Mughūl—loyal to Bābur (912) 315; at Qandahār (913) 333, 335; rebels (914) 345.

Bābā Sher-zād, see Bābā Sher-zād.

Mullā Shams—very riotous (932) 453.

Sult̤ān Shamsu’d-dīn Āīltmīsh2929 (Altamsh) of the Slave dynasty in Dihlī—his buildings in Gūālīār 610, 611; [♰633 AH.-1236 AD.].

Sayyid Shamsu’d-dīn Muḥammad—Mīr Sar-i-barahna—particulars 280.

Shamsu’d-dīn Muḥammad—bearer of letters between Khwāja Kalān and Bābur (935) 644, 645, 649.

Maulānā Shihāb mu‘ammāī—arrives in Āgra from Herāt (935) 605; invited in verse by Bābur 683; [♰942 AH.-1535 AD.].

Khusrau’s Shihabu’d-dīn—on Bābur’s service (935) 689, (936) 690.

Shaikh Shihābu’d-dīn ‘Arab—at a feast (935) 631.

Mu‘z̤z̤u’d-dīn Shihābu’d-dīn Muḥammad Ghūrī—his capital Ghaznī 217; mentioned as a conqueror of Hindūstān 479; his position contrasted with Bābur’s 479-80, 481; [♰602 AH.-1206 AD.].

Shāh Sikandar—on Bābur’s service (932-3) 546; sent to Bihār (935) 664.

Sikandar-i-Filkūs—Alexander of Macedon—Badakhshī chiefs claim of descent from him 22; a surmise that he founded Samarkand 75; his supposition that the Indus was the Nile a probable root of a geographical crux 206 n. 3; [♰327 B.C.].

Sult̤ān Sikandar Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, nephew of Ḥusain—parentage 257; his wife Sult̤ān-niẕhad q.v.; [♰908 AH.-1502-3 AD.].

Sult̤ān Sikandar Lūdī Afghān, son of Buhlūl—over-lord in Bhīra (910) 382, 383; his treasure 470, exhausted (935) 617; his siege of Gūālīār 477; his capture of Jūnpūr and Dihlī (881) 481, 571 n. 5; Bābur visits his tomb (932) 476; his brother ‘Ālam Khān and sons Ibrāhīm and Maḥmūd q.v.; ☛ his death and its date 427 and n. 3; [♰923 AH.-1517 AD.].

Sikandar Shāh Gujrātī—his accession and murder 534-5 (where for “2nd” read 932); [♰932 AH.-1526 AD.].

Sīktū Hindū—father of Dīwa q.v.

Sīūndūk Turkmān—his hands frost-bitten (912) 311; in the centre at Qandahār (913) 335; rebels against Bābur (914) 355.

Sīūnjuk Sult̤ān Khān Aūzbeg-Shaibān, Chīngīz-khānid, son of Abu’l-khair—☛ besieges Tāshkīnt (918) 358, 396; his son Bārāq at Jām (935) 622.

Sohrāb Mīrzā Bāī-qarā, son of Abū-turāb—particulars 262.

The Spanish Ambassadors—the place of their first interview with Tīmūr 78 n. 2.

Sulaimān—offers his horse to a wounded man (908) 175.

Sulaimān Āqā Turkmān—envoy of T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawī to Bābur (933) 540, 583; in the right wing at Kānwa 566.

Sulaimān Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Mīrzā Khān (Wais)2930—☛ brought to Kābul on his father’s death (927) 433 n. 1; in the right centre at Pānīpat (932) 472, and at Kānwa (933) 565; ☛ sent to govern Badakhshān (936) 697-8, 699; ☛ Bābur’s protective warning to Sa‘īd Chaghatāī 697-8 (here styled Shāh Mīrzā); on his descent 698 nn. 2, 3; meets his rebel grandson Shāhrukh (cir. 983) 191 n. 2; [♰997 AH.-1589 AD.].

Mīān Sūlaimān Shaikh-zāda Farmūlī Afghān—reinforces ‘Ālam Khān Lūdī (932) 456; gives him 4 laks 457; Bābur dismounts at his Dihlī home 476.

Malik Shāh Sulaimān Yūsuf-zāī Afghān—murdered by Aūlūgh Beg Kābulī App. K, xxxvi; his sons Manṣūr and T̤āūs, his nephew Aḥmad q.v.

Sult̤ān-bakht Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Abū-sa‘īd—her daughter visited by Bābur (935) 616.

Sult̤ānīm Begīm Mīrān-shāhī (ut supra), daughter of Aḥmad and Qātāq—particulars 36.

Sultānīm Begīm Bāī-qarā (ut supra), daughter of Ḥusain and Chūlī Begīm—particulars 265; arrives in Kābul (925) 397; dies on her way to Āgra (933) 265; her husbands Wais Bāī-qarā and ‘Abdu’l-bāqī Mīrān-shāhī, her son Muḥammad

Sult̤ān Mīrzā and grandson Aūlūgh Mīrzā (265 n. 5) q.v.; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Sult̤ān Malik Kāshgharī, Duldāī Barlās Turk—his sons Ḥāfiz Muḥammad and Aḥmad Ḥājī Beg, his brother Jānī Beg q.v.

Sult̤ān-nigār Khānīm Chaghatāī Chingīz-khānid, daughter of Yūnas Khān and Shāh Begīm—particulars 23; long parted from a half sister (907) 149; meets her brother Aḥmad (908) 159; mentioned in Bābur’s reflection on disloyal kinsfolk (912) 318; writes to him from Kāshghar (932) 446 n. 2; her son Wais [Mīrzā Khān] and grandson Sulaimān q.v.2931; [♰934 AH.-1527-8 AD.].

Sult̤ān-niẕhād Begīm Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Ḥusain and Pāpā—particulars 266; her husband Sikandar Bāī-qarā q.v.

Sultān-qulī and Sult̤ān ‘Alī, see Bābā-qulī and Bābā ‘Alī.

Sult̤ān-qulī chūnāq, Mughūl—his fidelity (904) and treachery(?) (914 and 921) 105, 109 n. 5; falls into a pit outside Kābul (910) 198; does a bold deed 236; out with Bābur (911) 252-3; rejoins Bābur from Herāt (913) 330-1; in the Mughūl rebellion at Ghaznī (921) 364 n. 1.

Sult̤ān Suyūrghatmīsh Mīrzā Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Shāh-rukh—mentioned in his son Mas‘ūd’s genealogy 382.

T̤aghāī Beg, see Sherīm T̤aghāī.

T̤aghāī Shāh bakhshī—put in charge of Shāh Beg’s treasury (913) 338.

Tāham-tan Turkmān—particulars 279; his grandson Muḥammad-i-zamān q.v.

T̤āhir Beg Dūldāī Barlās Turk, son of Ḥāfiẓ-i-muḥammad—joint governor of Mīrzā Khān (905) 122; feeds the famished Bābur (907) 148.

T̤āhir tībrī—finds Ibrāhīm Lūdī’s body (932) 475; surprised by Rājpūts (933) 549.

Shāh-zāda2932 T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawī ‘Arab, son of Ismā’īl—☛ mentioned as reigning from 930-932 AH. 427; Bābur’s envoy to him (930) returns with gifts (933) 540, 560560 n. 2, 538, ☛ 712; his campaigns against the Aūzbegs (934) 618, (935) the battle of Jām 617 n. 3, 622-4 (where on p. 622 n. 1 read 935 for “934”), 625 n. 4, 635-6; his own account of the battle 635-6; desires peace 639 n. 3; his envoys in Āgra 630, 632; his friendship enjoined on Kāmrān 645; [♰984 AH.-1576 AD.].

Tāj Khān Sārang-khānī Afghān—sends Bābur news that Maḥmūd Lūdī’s army has broken up (935) 654; waits on Bābur 657; brings news which prevents hunting 658; sent on service 682; superseded in Chunār by Junaid Barlās 683.

Tāju’d-dīn Maḥmūd Arghūn—holding Qalāt for Muqīm (913) 339; waits on Bābur (925) 418.

Sult̤ān Aḥmad Taṃbal Itārachī Mughūl—with Bābur at Asfara (900) 53; wounded near Samarkand (902) 67; promoted (903) 86; deserts Bābur under privation 86, 87; joins Aūzūn Ḥasan in supporting Jahāngīr in Farghāna 87-8; induces The Khān (Maḥmūd) to withdraw support from Bābur 91; his tyranny (904) 100-1; brings Jahāngīr against Bābur in Marghīnān 101; his men drubbed out of Akhsī and defeated at the ferry 101-2; loses Andijān 103; is joined by anxious Mughūls 105; takes Jahāngīr against Andijān and retires 106-7; Bābur’s campaign against him (905) 108-110, 112-5; defeated at Khūbān 113; helped feebly by The Khān 115-6; opposes Bābur at Archīān 117 and at Bīshkārān 118; terms made 118-9; waits on Bābur 119; his ill-influence 119, 125; makes Qaṃbar-i-‘alī prisoner 124; deserters to him 118, 125, 156; moves against The Khān (906) 145, 154; an uncle’s rough comment on him 145; is sent Nūyān’s sword by Bābur (907) 150-1; conspiracy against him 154; the two Khāns join Bābur against him (908) 161-176; wounds Bābur with Nūyān’s sword 166-7, 396; terms with him repudiated by Bābur 169, 171; invites Shaibānī into Farghāna 172; occupies Akhsī citadel 173; left by Jahāngīr 173-174; mentioned to Bābur in the flight from Akhsī 178, 182; ☛ helped by Shaibānī 183; defeated by him and killed 244 and n. 3; a couplet of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ’s about him 289; his brothers Beg Tīlba, Khalīl, Muḥammad and Bāyazīd q.v.; [♰909 AH.-1504 AD.].

Tāng-ātmīsh Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-Shaibān?—at a feast (935) 631; his descent 631 n. 4; in the battle of the Ghogrā 669.

Tardī Beg, brother of Qūj (Qūch) and Sher-afgān—in the left centre at Pānīpat (932) 472, 473, and at Kānwa (933) 565; on service 538-9, 582, (934) 590, 602; [♰946 AH.-1539 AD.].

Tardī Beg khāksār—Bābur visits him (925) 417-8; makes verse dropping down the Kābul-river (932) 448; praises a spring and receives a district 467, 581; returns to the darwesh-life (933) 583; conveys a gift to Kāmrān in Qandahār 583.

Tardīka—Tardi yakka (568 n. 1)—on service (932) 462; in the right wing [tūlghuma] at Kānwa (933) 568, 579; joins Bābur at Dugdugī (935) 651; on service 678.

Tardī-muḥammad Jang-jang, son of Muḥammad Jang-jang—sent into Bhīra (935) 661, 664.

Tardī-muḥammad Qībchāq—at entertainments (925) 386, 400.

Tarkhān Begīm Arghūn Chīngīz-khānid, daughter of ‘Abdu’l-‘alī—particulars 36.

Tarsam Bahādur—punishes the Mundāhirs (936) 700-1.

Tarsūn-muḥammad Sult̤ān—serving Humāyūn (935) 640.

Malik T̤āūs Yūsuf-zāī Afghān—escorts his sister Mubāraka to her wedding with Bābur (925) 375.

Tātār Khān Kākār (or Gakar)—particulars 387; detains one travelling to Bābur (925) 386; killed by his cousin Hātī 387, 389; Bābur dismounts at his house in Pauhāla 390; [♰925 AH.-1519 AD.].

Tātār Khān Sārang-khāni Afghān—Khān-i-jahān—in Gūālīār and not submissive to Bābur (932) 523; surrenders (933) 539-40; on Bābur’s service (935) 582 (here Khān-i-jahān).

Tātār Khān Yūsuf-khail Lūdī Afghān—particulars 382, 383; his son Daulat Khān q.v.; [♰a few years before 910 AH.-1504-5 AD.].

Amīr Tīmūr Beg Barlās Turk—Ṣaḥib-i-qirān—mentioned in genealogies 14, 256; his birthplace Kesh 83; Samarkand his capital 75, 77, 78; his description of Soghd 84; his removal of the body of Sayyid Barka to Samarkand 266 n. 4; circumambulates Shaikh Māṣlaḥat’s tomb (790) 132 n. 2; and Aḥmad Yassawī’s (799) 356; captures of Qarshī 134 n. 1; his example followed in the bestowal of Farghāna 14; his gifts of the governments of Dihlī 487 and Samarkand 85; his descendants styled Mīrzā down to 913 AH. 344; Ḥusain Bāī-qarā the best swordsman of his line 259 and greatest in his lands 191; a descendant 567; favoured begs 19, 39; one of his old soldiers 150; a descendant effects the migration of fowlers to Multān 225; Bābur’s victory where his had been at Pul-i-sangīn 352; his and his descendants rule in Hindūstān 382; their loss of lands to the Aūzbegs 340; his builders and Bābur’s numerically compared 520; [♰807 AH.-1405 AD.].

Tīmūr ‘Us̤mān Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk—mentioned 280.

Tīngrī-bīrdī Bashaghī (?) Mughūl—in the left wing [tūlghumā] at Pānīpat (932) 473.

Tīngrī-bīrdī Beg, son of Qāsim qūchīn—helps to beat down snow for a road (912) 308-9; in the left wing at Qandahār (913) 334, 336; his servant at Bajaur (925) 361; entertains Bābur 401; returns to his districts Khwāst and Andar-āb 403; overtakes Bābur at Jūī-shāhī 410; acts swiftly for him (932-3) 546.

Tīngrī-qūlī, a musician—plays at Bābur’s entertainments (925) 385, 386, 388; upset into the Parwān-water 407; first given wine 415.

Tīrahī Sult̤ān—takes a letter to Khwāja Kalān (925) 411.

Mulla Tirik-i-‘alī (= Pers. Jān-i-‘alī?)—fights for Bābur at Bajaur (925) 368 and (on his name) n. 5; on service (933) 551 (where read Tirik).

Tīzak, son of Qūl-i-bāyazīd bakāwal—captured as a child and kept 4 years (910) 197.

T̤ūfān Arghūn—joins Bābur and so creates a good omen (913) 333.

Sayyid T̤ufān—on Bābur’s service (932) 453.

Tūghlūq-tīmūr Khān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid—mentioned in Yūnas Khān’s genealogy 19.

Tūka Hindū (var. Nau-kār)—given charge of gifts for Kābul (932) 525.

Tūkhtā-būghā Sult̤ān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, son of Aḥmad (Alacha Khān)—waits on Bābur (934) 601; at a feast (935) 631; referred to as serving Bābur 318; works magic 654; in the battle of the Ghogrā 672, 673; receives praise, thanks, and guerdon 674, 677; on service 682; [♰cir. 940 AH.-1533-4 AD.].

Tūlik Kūkūldāsh2933—Taṃbal strikes him with Bābur’s sword (912) 316; defeats Aūzbegs in Badakhshān (925) 408; on Humāyūn’s service (935) 640; his servant Barlās Jūkī q.v.

Tūlmīsh Aūzbeg—in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 669; on service 678.

Tūlūn Khwāja Beg, Bārīn Mughūl—particulars 87; on Bābur’s service (902) 66, (903) 88; killed 88; [♰903 AH.-1498 AD.].

Tūn-sult̤ān (var. Yūn) Mughūl—ghūnchachī of ‘Umar Shaikh 24.

Tūqā Beg, son of Sherīm T̤aghāī—captured by Taṃbal when serving Bābur (904) 106; killed as a prisoner 107; [♰904 AH.-1499 AD.]

Khwāja ‘Ubāidu’l-lāh Aḥrārī Naqshbandī—his righteous influence in Samarkand 42; his intervention for peace between ‘Umar Shaikh and kinsmen 62 and n. 1; Pashāghar once his village 97; disciples named by Bābur, Aḥmad and ‘Umar Shaikh Mīrān-shāhī, Darwesh Beg Tarkhān, and Maulānā-i-qāẓī q.v.; held in slight esteem by Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī 46; his family ill-treated by Maḥmūd (899) 41; dreamed of by Bābur (906) 132; his Wālidiyyah-risāla versified by Bābur 619-20, 468 n. 4, ☛ 604; his sons [Muḥammad ‘Ubaidu’l-lāh] Khwājakā Khwāja and Yaḥya q.v.; [♰895 AH.-1491 AD.].

‘Ubaidu’l-lāh Sult̤ān Khān Aūzbeg, Shaibānī Chīngīz-khānid, son of Maḥmūd and nephew of Shaibānī—defeats two pairs of Bāī-qarā Mīrzās (913) 263, 329-30; defeated at Merv (917) 354; defeated north of Bukhārā ib.; his vow and return to obedience 348, 356; victorious over Bābur at Kūl-i-malik (918) 201 n. 7, 357-8; routs Najm S̤ānī at Ghaj-davān 360-1; avenges Mughūl tyranny in Ḥiṣār 362; attacks Herāt (927) 434; takes Merv (932) 534, 617 n. 2; takes Mashhad (933) 534, 623 n. 3; attacked by T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawī (934) 618, 622; defeated at Jām (935) 622 (where in n. 1 for “934” read 935), 635-6; T̤aḥmāsp’s description of him 636 n. 22934; his wives by capture Ḥabība Dūghlāt and Mihr-angez Bāī-qarā q.v.; [♰946 AH.-1539 AD.].

Rāwāl Ūdai-singh Bāgarī—his force at Kānwa (933) 562; his death 573; [♰933 AH.-1527 AD.].

Ūlugh, Ūlūs, see Aūlūgh, Aūlūs.

Mīr ‘Umar Beg Turkmān—particulars 279; his sons Abū’l-fatḥ and ‘Alī Khān q.v.

‘Umar Mīrzā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Mīrān-shāh—mentioned 262 n. 3.

‘Umar Shaikh Mīrzā I, son of Tīmūr—mentioned 14 (where in l. 3 for “and” read who); receives Farghāna 14; [♰797 AH.-1395 AD.].

‘Umar Shaikh Mīrzā II Mīrān-shāhī, father of Bābur—particulars 16-19, 24-28; his lands 17, 24, 50, 55, 95 n. 2, 103; Akhsī his capital 10; his ambition 12; his family relations 12; betroths Bābur 35, 120; Farghāna invaded (899) 13; his death 13, 29, 32, App. A, i, iii; his house used by Bābur (908) 172 and his tomb visited (900) 54, (908) 173; his mother Shāh Sult̤ān Begīm q.v.; his retainers Tūlūn Khwāja, ‘Abdu’l-wahhāb, Khwājakī Khwāja q.v.; his old tailor 30; mentioned 6; [♰899 AH.-1494 AD.].

Umīd Āghācha Andijānī, ghūnchachī of ‘Umar Shaikh—her son Nāṣir q.v.; [♰before 899 AH.-1494 AD.].

‘Us̤mān, the Third Khalif—Bābur surmised that Samarkand became Musalmān in his reign 75; [♰murdered 35 AH.-665 AD.].

Mullā-zāda Mullā ‘Us̤mān—particulars 284; his birthplace Chīrkh 217.

Amīr Wāḥid—his tomb in Herāt visited by Bābur (912) 306; [♰35 AH.-655-6 AD.?]

Beg Wais—brings news from Kābul to Āgra (933) 536.

Pīr (or Mīr) Wais—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; released (905) 119; leaves Samarkand during the siege (906-7) 146.

Shaikh Wais—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; leaves Samarkand during the siege (906-7) 146.

Wais Ātāka—his canal at Kābul 200.

Wais Khān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, father of Yūnas Khān—mentioned 19; his sons Yūnas and Aīsān-būghā q.v.; [♰832 AH.-1428-9 AD.].

Sult̤ān Wais Kūlābī—his friendship recommended to Humāyūn (935) 627; ☛ reinforces Qila‘-i-z̤afar (935 or 936) 696; his daughter Ḥaram Begīm q.v.

Wais Lāgharī Beg tūghchī—particulars 28; joins The Khān (Maḥmūd) (899) 32; safe-guards his ward Nāṣir Mīrān-shāhī ib.; on service for Bāī-sunghar (902) 65; waits on Bābur 66; stays with him at a crisis (903) 91; on his service (904) 98, 100, 101, 106; at Khūbān (905) 113; advises 117; plundered by ‘Alī-dost 119; leaves Samarkand during the siege (906-7) 146; his son (?) Beggīna q.v.

Wais Mīrān-shāhī, see Mīrzā Khān.

Sult̤ān Wais Mīrzā Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Bāī-qarā II—parentage 257; his cousin and wife Sult̤anīm q.v.

Sult̤ān Wais Sawādī—mentioned 372; sent to collect a tax he had fixed (925) 374; receives gifts and leave 376.2935

Sult̤ān Wālāma Taklū—mentioned in Shāh T̤ahmāsp’s account of the battle of Jām (935) 626 n. 2.

Pīr Walī Bārlas Turk—☛ loses Sīwīstān to Shāh Beg (cir. 917) 429 n. 1.

Walī Beg Barlās—particulars 272-3; his son Muḥammad-i-Walī q.v.; [♰973 AH.].

Walī Beg Qībchāq Turk, brother of Khusrau Shāh2936—particulars 51; on his brother’s service (901) 60, 64, (902) 71, (903) 93-4; mentioned (906) 129, (910) 191 by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā; inquired for from Khusrau by Bābur 193; defeated by Aīmaqs 196; his death 51, 196; his former followers gathered together 242; [♰910 AH.-1504 AD.].

Walī khazānchī, Qarā-qūzī—captured by Taṃbal in Akhsī (908) 181; in the left centre at Qandahār (913) 335; his matchlock shooting at Bajaur (925) 369; on service 391, (932) 458, 465-6, 471; in the right wing at Pānīpat 472, 475, and at Kanwā (933) 566; his ill-behaviour in the heats 524.

Walī pārschī (cheeta-keeper)—receives a gift (935) 633.

Walī Qīzīl Mughūl—rebuked (932) 453; in the right-wing [tūlghuma] at Pānīpat 473; made shiq-dār of Dihlī 476; on service (934) 601, (935) 638.

Yādgār-i-muḥammad2937 Mīrzā Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Muḥammad—his capture of Herāt referred to 278; his defeat by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā at Chanārān (874) 260; his loss of Herāt to Ḥusain (875) 260, 279, compared with Shaibānī’s of Samarkand to Bābur (906) 134-5; the date of his death referred to 259 n. 1; his Master-of-horse Mīr (Qambar-i-)‘alī q.v.; [♰875 AH.-1470-1 AD.].

Yādgār-i-nāsir Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Nāṣir—gifts made to him (935) 632; [♰953 AH.-1546 AD.].

Yādgār-i-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī (ut supra), daughter of ‘Umar Shaikh—particulars 18; her Aūzbeg marriage (908) 18, 356; her return to Bābur (917) 356.

Yādgār T̤aghāī—his daughter Bega Begīm q.v.

Khwāja Yaḥyā, younger son of ‘Ubaidu’l-lāh Aḥrārī—his part in the Tarkhān revolt (901) 63; treats with Bābur (904) 98; welcomes him to Samarkand (905) 124; waits on Shaibānī (906) 127; banished by him and murdered with two sons 128, 147 n. 4; his house mentioned 133; his sons Muḥammad Zakariya and Bāqī, his grandsons ‘Abdu’sh-shahīd and Khwāja Kalān q.v.; [♰906 AH.-1500 AD.].

Shaikh Yaḥyā Chīshtī—his tomb visited by Bābur (935) 666; his son Sharafu’d-dīn Munīrī q.v.

Yaḥyā Nūḥānī, at the head of Hindūstān traders—allowed to leave Kābul (925) 416.

Yaḥyā Nūḥānī (perhaps the man last entered)—waits on Bābur (935) 676; a grant and leave given 683; his younger brother (no name) 683.

Yakka Khwāja—on Bābur’s service (934) 598; in the battle of the Ghogrā (935) 671; drowned 674; his brother Qāsim q.v.; [♰935 AH.-1529 AD.].

Yāngī Beg Kūkūldāsh—brings Bābur letters and gifts from Kāshghar (932) 445-6.

Ya‘qūb-i-ayūb Begchīk, son of Ayūb—on Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s service (901) 58; proffers Khusrau Shāh’s service to Bābur (910) 192-3.

Sult̤ān Ya‘qūb Beg Āq-qūīlūq Turkmān—a desertion to him 275; affords refuge to Banā’ī 287; his beg Tīmūr ‘Uṣman Mīrān-shāhī q.v.; [♰896 AH.-1491 AD.].

Maulānā Ya‘qūb Naqshbandī—his birthplace Chīrkh 217; [♰851 AH.-1447 AD.].

Ya‘qūb tez-jang—☛ one of five champions defeated in single combat by Bābur (914) 349 n. 1.

Ya‘qūb Sult̤ān—mentioned as at Jām 636 n. 2.

Mullā Yārak—plays one of his compositions and incites Bābur to compose (926) 422.

Yārak T̤aghāī (var. Yārīk)—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; locum tenens in Akhsī (905) 116; retaliates on Turkmān Hazāras (911) 253; takes charge of sheep raided by Bābur (912) 313; in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334.

Yār-i-‘alī Balāl, Bahārlū Qarā-qūīlūq Turkmān, grandfather of Bairām Khān-i-khānān—stays with Bābur at a crisis (903) 91; wounded (905) 109 (where in n. 5 for “father” read grandfather); rejoins Bābur (910) 189; on his Tramontane service (932-3) 546.

Yār-i-ḥusain, grandson of Mīr (Shaikh) ‘Alī Beg—waits on Bābur (910) 228; asks permission to raise a force in Bābur’s name 231; kills Bāqī Chaghānīānī (911) 250-1.

Yārīm Beg—Yār-i-muḥammad?—on Bābur’s service (913) 337.

Yīlī-pars Sult̤ān Aūzbeg-shaibān—his brother Aīsān-qulī (q.v.) 265.

Yīsūn-tawā Khān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid—mentioned in Yūnas Khān’s genealogy 19.

Yūl-chūq—conveys a message to Bābur (904) 99.

Yūnas-i-‘alī, son of Bābā ‘Alī Lord-of-the-Gate—surprised at a Tuesday’s fast (925) 398; on Bābur’s service 278, 468 (where read his name in l. 3) 475, 521; in the right centre at Pānīpat (932) 472, 473 and at Kānwa (933) 565, 569; has charge of Ibrāhīm’s mother 543, 545; makes a garden (932) 532; in social charge of T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawī’s envoys (935) 631; inquires into Muḥammad-i-zamān Bāī-qarā’s objections to Bihār 661, 662; in the battle of the Ghogrā 671; at entertainments (925) 400, (935) 683; his kinsman Ibrāhīm qanūnī q.v.

Yūnas Khān Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid, Bābur’s maternal grandfather—particulars2938 19-24; made Khān of the Mughūls by Bābur’s grandfather 20, 344 n. 2, 352; his friendly relations with Bābur’s father 12; receives Tāshkīnt from him 13; defeats him 16; his sons Maḥmūd and Aḥmad q.v. and daughters 21-4; his servant Qaṃbar-i-‘alī q.v. mentioned 92 n. 1, 149, 565 n. 1; [♰892 AH.-1487 AD.].

Khwāja Yūnas Sajāwandī—his birthplace in Luhūgur (Logar) 217.

Yūsuf-i-‘alī—musician at entertainments (925) 385, 387, 388, 418.

Yūsuf-i-‘alī bakāwal—on Bābur’s service in Bajaur (925) 375.

Yūsuf-i-‘alī Kūkūldāsh—made joint-dārogha in Herāt (911) 293; Bābur’s cicerone in Herāt (912) 304; his good dancing 303.

Yūsuf-i-‘alī rikābdār—conveys a letter concerning Hind-āl’s pre-natal adoption (925) 374; receives a gift for swimming 401; meets Bābur 418; (?) in Saṃbhal (934) 587; (?) dies there 675, 687 (here ‘Alī-i-yūsuf); [♰935 AH.-1529 AD.].2939

Khwāja Yūsuf Andijānī, a musician—particulars 4.

Yūsuf-i-ayūb Begchīk, son of Ayūb—Bābur warned against him (910) 190; takes service with Bābur 196; winters with Nāṣir 241; leaves Bābur for Jahāngīr (911) 190, 254.

Yūsuf badī‘2940—particulars 289; [♰897 AD.-1492].

Sayyid Yūsuf Beg Aūghlāqchī, son of Murād—particulars 39; waits on Bābur from Samarkand (903) 72; holding Yār-yīlāq for ‘Alī Mīrān-shāhī (904) 98; dismissed from Khurāsān on suspicion 98; joins Bābur (910) 196; advises him 197; his death 241; his brother Ḥasan and sons Muḥammad-i-yūsuf and Aḥmad-i-yūsuf q.v.; [♰910 AH.-1505 AD.].

Yūsuf dārogha of Akhsī?—interviews Bābur during the flight (908) 181-2.

Sayyid Yūsuf Machamī—particulars 118; opposes Bābur (905) 118, 117 n. 2.

Zāhid Khwāja—abandons Saṃbhal (933) 557; on service (935) 682; [♰953 AH.-1546 AD.].

Shaikh Zain Khawāfī—verse-making on the Kābul-river (932) 448; his account of Bābur’s regretted couplet 448 n. 5; goes into Dihlī for the Congregational Prayer 476; makes a garden at Āgra 532; recalls a vow to Bābur (933) 553; his inshā on Bābur’s renunciation of wine and of the tamghā 553-6; his Fatḥ-nāma of Kānwa 559-574, and chronograms of victory 575; in the left centre of the battle 565; prefers requests for Muḥammad-i-zamān Bāī-qarā (935) 662; invited in verse by Bābur 683; his maternal uncle Abū’l-wajd q.v.; [♰940 AH.-1533-4 AD.].

Zainab-sult̤ān Begīm—her granddaughter met by Bābur near Āgra (935) 616.

Zainab-sult̤ān Begīm Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, daughter of Maḥmūd—particulars 48; married to Bābur (910) 48, 711; [♰cir. 912 AH.-1506-7 AD.].

Zard-rūī—on Bābur’s service (935) 668, 669.

Zar-dusht (“Zoroaster”)—mentioned in a verse 85.

Bībī Zarīf Khātūn—her daughter Māh-chūchūq 199 n. 1, 342 n. 3.

Zubaida Aghācha Jalāīr—particulars 267, 273 n. 2; [♰before 911 AH.-1506 AD.].

Zubaida Khatūn, wife of Khalīfa Hārūnu’r-rashīd—a surmise concerning her 306 n. 1; [♰216 AH.-831 AD.].

Zubair Rāghī—revolts against Aūzbeg rule in Badakhshān (910) 242, (912) 295; defeats Nāṣir Mīrān-shāhī 321; standing firm (913) 340; [♰914 AH.-1508 AD.].

Zuhra Begī Āghā Aūzbeg, concubine of Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī—particulars 47, 49; intrigues disastrously with Shaibānī (905) 125-6, (906) 127-8.

Mīr Shaikh Ẕū’n-nūn Beg Arghūn—particulars 274-5; captures Shāl (Quetta) (884) 429 n. 1; his ward-ship of ‘Alī Mīrān-shāhī (900) 55; imprisons Khalīfa 55; surrenders Aūrā-tīpā 56; serving Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (901) 57, 60 n. 3; becomes an ally of the rebel Badī‘u-z-zamān (902) 71, (903) 94-5, 260; invited by Ḥusain to co-operate against Shaibānī (910) 190, 191; goes for refuge to Ḥusain 243; dealings with his son Muqīm 198, 227, 248; his title Lion-of-God 281; part of the coalition government in Herāt (911) 293; defeats Aūzbegs (912) 296; social matters 298, 299, 307; hears plain speaking from Qāsim Beg qūchīn 304; his futile opposition to Shaibānī (913) 326; defeated and killed 275, 327; his retainer Jān-aīrdī; [♰913 AH.-1507 AD.].