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Bābur's letter to Kāmrān, App. J, xxxv, (see Archivs).

Memory, retentive, 290.

Merv Oasis, O'Donovan—Rādagān 622.

Metamorphoses, Ovid—Scorpio and Libra 623.

Migration enforced—of Mughūls of the Horde 20, 350-1; of Tramontane tribes 202-70, 322; of villagers to Bajaur 375, and planned to Sīālkot.

Military:—+Armies, size of+:—Maḥmūd (Ghazni) 479; Shihābu'd-dīn Ghurī 480; Aūz-beg 480; Daulat Khān Lūdī 451; Bābur, Qandahār 334, Bhīra 480, Pānipat 452-80; Ibrahim Lūdī 463-80; Sangā 547; T̤ahmāsp at Jām 635; —Bābur's force in various encounters (200 to 300) 91; (240) 100; (1000) 87; (240) 334-7; (10 to 15) 140; (100) 147; (10 to 15) 166; (3) ib.; (1) 167; (100) 173; (20 to 25) 177; (1) 178; —+Commands+:—Mīnglīgh (1000) 52; Nūyān (Mughūli) 151; Tūmān-begi (10,000) 17; Yūz-atlīk (Centurion of horse) 143; Qūchīn 32; —+Army array:+—108-13-55-98; 234-381; 468-71, 557-8; Bābur's organization and terms 334; flanking-movement (tūlghuma) 139, described 140, 473, 568; rallying-point 547; rendezvous (buljār) 122-3, 592, 638; at the Sind-ferry 461-2; postings 113-39, 372, 595, 662-68; —+Various+:—A.S. Corps 674; army-list 451-2; camp-bāzār 67-8; Corps of Braves 28, App. H, xxvii; discipline 66-7; necessaries for holding a fort 145; numbering (dīm) 154-61, 468, (san) 451-2; pass-words 164; pillars of heads 232, 324-71, 404; war-cries 138-44-55-63-66; ways and means 228, 617; —Rājpūt fighting customs 595; massacres of "Pagans" 370, 484, 596; —+Appliances and constructions+:—axe (tool) 108, 379; catapult 59; camp defence:—ditch and branch 60-1, 110-17, 138, (908 AH.) 162, Rūmī defence of linked carts infra (932 AH.) 469-70, 550-58; draw-bridge (pul-i-rawān) 171-76; flaming-fire 595; guns see fire-arms; ladders (shātū) 130-31-43-71, 368-70, 593; mantelet (tūrā) 108-13-55, 368, 469, 593; mines 53-9, 343-70; moat 10; pit 198; head-strike (sar-kob) 53-9; spade or shovel (kītmān) 108; smoke 59; wheeled-tripod 550-7; —+Armour+:—helm 166-7, 396; cuirass (mail or wadded) i.a. 195, 315-96; the word jība 495; Qālmāq jība 175; coat of mail (joshan) 195; horse-mail (kīchīm) see horse; arm-protector, the 4 plates of mail, attachment (gharīcha) 167, 315, 396; —+Arms+:—battle-axe (bāltū) 160, 370; broad dagger (jaṃdar) 528; hanger (khanjar) 528; Hindū knife (kārd) 528; lance (neza) 370; six-flanged mace (shash-par) 160; rugged mace (piyāzī, Sanglākh Dict. f. 312b, kisgīn) 160; casse-tâte mace (kistīn) 160; scabbard (qīn) 167; sword (qīlīch) 160-61-67, 315-70-96, 453; broad sword (yāsī qīlīch) 150; (see Archery); —+Carts+ (arāba) for Rūmī defence:—(Pānīpat) ordered collected 468; 700 brought and used as described 468-9; —misleading omission from (E.'s) Memoirs 468 n. 3; —progress of the defences 469-70; mantelets used 469; (position of guns 473-74); —(Kānwa) carts supplemented by wheeled tripods 550; place of carts in the march out 550-57-58; carts the frontal protection 550-58; well-made in Rūmī fashion 550; [posts of matchlockmen and canoneers along the line of carts 569]; carts in the battle 564-697, 471; centre troops move from behind them 570-71; carts advanced in front of Bābur 571; —(Jām) T̤ahmāsp's Rūmī defence 623, 635-36; —+Fire-arms+:—firingi (swivel-gun, pierrier) 472, 667; mortars (qāzān) 59 —the Ghāzī cast 536, tested 547 —used 570-99 —ineffective at Chandīrī 592-5 —its elephant-traction 489; mortars and (add) carts landed 651 —used in the Gogra battle (where "tope") 669-70-71; a larger mortar made, bursts 588; —ẓarb-zan (culverin) 473 —used at Pānīpat 474, Kānwa 564-9, 71, the Ganges-bridge 599, Eastern campaign 651-6; —tūfang, tūfak (matchlock) used 368-9, 466-9, 558-64-70-71-73, 599, 628-67-8-9; T̤ahmāsp's 622-35; —gunners and matchlockmen 368, their pay 617 and wellbeing 647; "fire-working" Bengalis 672; —muljār (gun emplacement) 593, 628 (for būljār?), 668; —+Stone-missiles+:—hurled by hand 109, 370, 595; legendary dropping of by birds 563; discharged from catapults 59, from mortars and matchlocks 109, 369, 431-73, 571-88-93-95-99, 617-67-70-79; —+Transport:+—pack animals 235; camels 232-5, 378, (counted) 391, 601-56 (see Domestic animals); elephants 489; carts (baggage) 237, 376-77, 468, 636, 700, (gun) 592-99, (unspecified) 601-51-56.

Minerals:—ribbon jasper 6; turquoise 8, 12; iron 12; jade 27, 67; ruby 194; silver and lapis-lazuli 214; lead and copper 485.

Mirāt-i-jahān-numā, Shaikh Muḥ. Baqā—Khwānd-amīr's journey to Hind 505.

Mirāt-i-sikandarī, `Alī Muḥ. Khān (trs. E. Clive Bayley)—Gujrāt affairs 535; persons 562 and 614, 612; Gūālīār jewels 613.

Mirror-stone, (Farghāna) 7.

Miscellaneous Works, Greaves—Observatories 79.

Mohl, Jules—date of revision of Tārīkh-i-firishta 694 (E. and D.'s Hist. of India iv, 209).

Mongolia, N. Prejevalsky (trs. E. Delmar-Morgan)—aīmāq 49, explained Add. Notes P. 49.

Moon-stroke 608.

Mountain-passes leading into the valley of Bamian, Lt.-Gen. E. Kaye, C.B. [PRGS. 1879]—birds 213.

Mubīn (Exposition), Bābur—date of composition (928 AH.) 426, 437; described 437-8; Bābur's choice of its title 630, 653; thought during its composition 449; quoted 630; sent to Samarkand 653.

+Mughūls and Bābur+:—a faithful Mughūl 87-8; Mughūls enter his service 58-9, 189, 190-2-4, 245; support Jahāngīr against him see i.a. snn. Taṃbal, `Alī-dost; offer to supplant him by Sa`īd Chaghatāī 351; sent to help him 101-4, oppose him 115; desert him 86-7, 104-5; Five Rebellions against him 105, 208, 313-4, 345-9, 361-2-3, 397; his following purged of them 427; his comments on them 66, 104-5, 115-40, 172; a Mughūl chief's dying comment on them 363; "Mughūl dynasty" a misnomer 158.

Muhammadan Dynasties, Stanley Lane-Poole—Table of Timurids 262; various 479-82; certain Aūzbeg deaths 636.

Mu'inu'd-dīn al Zamji (J.A. xvi, 476, de Meynara's art.)—Kīchīk Mīrzā's Egyptian information 257.

Muntakhabu'l-lubāb, Muḥ. Hāshim Kh(aw)āfī Khān—[see nn. on pp. named], a source for filling Bābur-nāma gaps 208; Sihrind, Sar-i-hind 383; siege of Chandīrī 596; varies Bābur's chronogram of the victory 596.

Muntakhabu't-tawārīkh, `Abdu'l-qādir Badāyūnī (trs. Ranking, Lowe) Ḥasan Hijri 153; Bābur's Script 228, App. Q, lxii, arrow-sped couplet 361; Mubīn 437-8; Chronogram of Sikandar Ludi's death 427; the haunted field of Pānīpat 472; Hasan Miwāti 523; Shaikh Gūran 526; Fārighī 621; Muh. Ghaus̤ 690; quotes Bābur's Funeral Ode 709.

"Musalmān" as used by Bābur 99, 104, 268, 481, and by Shaikh Zain 553-5.

Musalman Numismatics, O. Codrington—various coins 632 [see JRAS. 1913-4].

Music—+instruments+:—`aūd (lute) 292, 395; chang (jews'-harp) 303; drum see s.n.; ghachak (guitar) 291; nāī (flute) 291, 303; qānūm (dulcimer) 278; qūbūz (guitar) 39; —+modes+:—76 n. 5, 136, 287, 422; —+performers+:—39, 278, 286-7, 291, 292, 422 (Bābur); at entertainments passim; —Banā'ī's rapid progress as a musician 287.

+Noticeable words+:— āīmāq 51 etc. Add. Note P. 51; mīng = P. hazāra 52; mīng-begī see qūchīn; mihman-beg 227.

Nadir Shāh Pref. xlvii.

Nagarahāra, Simpson [JASB. xiii?]—App. E. xxiii.

Narrative of the Journey of the Embassy to Kashghar (Yarkand), H. W. Bellew—Satūq-būghrā Khān 29.

Nasal utterance—its seeming products "nīng" (var.) = nine, App. E, xviii, xix, and "Tānk" = Tāq 233.

Natural History—+Beasts+:—those common to Kābul and Hind 222; wild ass 224, 325; wild buffalo 490, 657; būghū-marāl 8, 10, 114, 373, 491, 500; —elephant described 488, encounters with rhino and camel 451, 631, 657, in battle 463-70, 457-66-68, 529, 668, in hunting 657, killed by a fleeing foe 662, killed in Makka 563, statues of, at Gūālīār 609, various 590, 628-58; —ermine-weasel 492; yellow fox 114; flying-fox (bat) 500 (and n. 6 where read f. 135); gainī cattle 492; goat 16, 83; hare 10, 114; —kīyīk:—black buck, hog-deer and a smaller deer 222, 491, āq kīyīk (white) 6, 8, 10, 491, qīzīl kīyīk, arqārghalcha (dun sheep) 224, 491; —tree-mouse 492; monkey, ape 211, 222, 492; musk-rat 214; nīl-gau 222, 490; pig 114; qūchqār (ram) 492; karg (rhinoceros) 378, 450-1-89, 557; squirrel 492; flying squirrel 213; tiger 393, 664; yāk (qūtās) 55, 155, baḥrī qūtūs 485, 490, App. M. —+Birds+:—migration 220-4; catching 220-4-5; common to Hind and Kābul 220; decoy-birds 225; impeded flight 214, 496; special notes on App. B and N; combined sex-name 500; dīng (adjutant) 398, 498; bak-dīng (adjutant) 499; bāghrī-qarā see sand-grouse and App. N.; Indian bustard and Great bustard 498; Large buzak (black ibis) 499; white buzak 499, 500 l. 2; buzzard (T. sār) 499, 500; chameleon-bird see lūkha; cranes var. 224, 499; crow var. 500; ducks var. 224, 500; egret (qarqara) 224; golden eagle (būrgūt) 373, 500; florican 498; goshawk (T. qārchīgha and qīrghīcha) 34, Add. Note, P. 34, 385; grey heron (aūqār) 224, 499; jungle-fowl var. 497; kabg-i-darī 214, 496-7, App. N, xlix (see lūkha); kūīl, koel 501; Indian loriquet 494 n. 5; lūkha var. 213, 222, 496, Add. Note, P. 496 (see kabg-i-darī); magpie 500; green magpie 501; mānek (beef-steak bird) 499; monal 496, 497, App. N, phūl-paikar 497; bulbul (nightingale) 420, 501; northern-swallow 495; parrot var. 493-4; partridge var. 421-93-96-97; peacock 493; pelican (qūṯān) 224, App. N, 1; pheasant (qīr-ghāwal) 3, 8, 10, 34, 114, 493-97 (chīr); qīl-qūyirūgh (Qarshī-birdie) 84, App. B; quail var. 34, 497-8; sand-grouse (bāghrī-qarā) 84, 498, App. B; sārīgh-aūsh 373; sharak; —Himālayan starling? 495 n. 3; pindāwati 495; house-mīna 495 (add n. ref. 5); pied-mīna ib.—sparrow (chūchūq) 8; snow-cock 213, 421, App. N, 1, (see lūkha and chīūrtīka ib.); white stork 499; karcha (swift) 501; wag-tail 498, 501; wild fowl 497; little green wood-pecker 501; zummaj 500 ("eagle," add Its colour is black); —+Fish and amphibia+:—migration 225; catching 225-7, 406, 682; of Hindustan fish 503; cray fish 502; unnamed 663; frog 503; porpoise 502; crocodile var. 501-2, 663; —+Various+:—lizard 501-2; locust (chīūrtīka) 421, App. N, 1; mosquito 204; snakes, 8, 147, 406; +Flowers+:—Farghāna 5, 10; Kābul 215-7; Peshāwār 393; Hind 513-5; —arghwān (red, the Judas-tree) 216-7, 305, (yellow) 217; hibiscus 513; jasmine 515; oleander 514, 580, 610; roses 5, 321 (couplet), 513; screw-pine 516; tulips 5, 215, 321; violets 5; —+Fruits+:—Farghāna 2, 3, 6, 8, 10; Samarkand 77, 82-4; Kābul 202-3-8-9-10-12-16-18-20-21; Hind 503 to 513, App. O; —`ain-ālū 506; almond 6, 7, 9, 223, 507-8; ālū-bālū 203; apple 2, 8, 77, 202-20, 507; apricot 6, 202; badrang 203; plantain (banāna) 208, 504; cherry 203; chīrūnjī 508; citron var. 203-8-10, 501-11; clustered-fig 508; coco-nut 509; colocynth-apple (wild gourd) 410-11 (where for khunṯal read ḥunẕal); coriander 211; corinda 507; date-palm 410-24, 506-8; date-plum (T. qarā-yīmīsh) 203-10; fig 508; grape 3, 77, 202-3-10-12-18-21, 507-8, 646-86-87; jack-fruit 506; jāman 506, 606; jīlghūza (pine-seeds) 203-13; jujube (sinjid) 196, 203; chīkdā 506; kamrak 506 (where add, It has no stone); lemon 512, 614; lime var. 512; lote-fruit 507; lotus-seed (dūdah) 666; mango 503; melon var. 10, 82-4, 92, 411, 645-6, 686-7; mimusops 505; myrobalan 508; nāshpāti 3; orange var. 203-10-11, 414, 510, 512, Add. N. P. 512, 614, App. O, liii; pear 203; peach 203; pistachio 508; plum 82; monkey-jack 506-7; pomegranate 6, 8, 77, 202-8, 507; quince 202, 507-12; tamarind 505 (n. ref. to būīā); walnut 203, 508; —+Trees and plants+:—amān-qarā, maize (?) 504, small almond 233, būīā 505, būtā-kūh 221, clover, trefoil, sih-barga, yūrūnchqā 6, 209, 346, conifers, archa, 221-2, cypress 81, 222, dhak 472; ebony-tree 585, 614, hardwood-elm 81, grass (cuscus) 631 n. 2, holm-oak 213-16-23, madder 218, mahuwā 505-8, male-reed 514, mandrake and its similars 11, mastic 213-23, millet 81, 215, mulberry (tūt) 248, 494, olive 222, palmyra palm 509, App. O, liv, Pinus Gerardiana, jilghūza 203-13, plane 216, 398, poplar var. 13, 15, (tūrūk) 145 and 156, 414 (where for "purslain" read poplar), qarqand 223, reed 514, rice 210, 342, rhubarb 203, 345, 507, spikenard 392, sugar-cane 208, 388, tabalghū 11, tamarisk 14, 463 (where, wrongly, "Tamarind"); —willow 217, 306, (weeping) 304, App. I, (amāl-bīd) 512; —+Physical various—Climate+:—change on the Kīndīrlīk-pass (?) 2; meeting places of hot and cold in Kābul 208 and 229, 220; both near the town 202; good climate Aūsh 4-6, Kāsān 10, Soghd 84, Kābul 263; —+Climes+:—Farghāna and Samarkand in the 5th 1, 74; Kābul in the 4th 199; —cold, Akhsī 116, Hasht-yak 151, Ghazni 219, 526, Khwārizm 219, upper Herī-rūd valley 311, Kābul 314; —+Various+:—dust-storm 520, 32-6; earthquake 247, 367; solar eclipse 659; ice,—Sīr-daryā crossed on 151; Kābul ice-houses 215; near Parhāla 452; none had in Hind 518; —+malaria+:—Andijān 4, Khujand 8; —+rain+:—384, 425; rain-making see magic; rain-talisman 423; rainy season (various) 405, 507, 514-19, 677-8; —+snow+:—208, 215, 252, 314, 373; Himālayan snows 485; perilous journey in snow 309-11; snowfall of Samarkand and Kābul compared 77; —+wind:+—Farghāna 9 and n. 2, 151; Kābul 201; upper Herī-rūd valley 310; Hind 520, pestilential 524, 532, 654-7, does damage to Bābur's writings 658.

Nestorian Church 2.

New account of the East Indies (Edin. 1727), Alex. Hamilton—Malabar succession customs 482.

Nigār-nāma-i-hind, Sayyid Ghulām-i-`alī—a British monument at Pānīpat 472.

Nine a mystic number—9 Tarkhān privileges 250; 9 allowed offences 250; gifts by nines; [Cf. Shajaratu'l-atrāk, Miles trs. p. 530, for the root of reverence for the number nine].

Notes on Afghanistan and Baluchistan, H. G. Raverty—[see nn. on pp. named], Kābul rulers and river 200; river called Nīl-āb 206; `Aqabain 201; Adīnapūr-region 207; Ghazni magic spring 219; migration of fowlers 225; Tīmūr's pillars of heads 232; place of Ẕū'n-nūn's death 327; "Kakar" 386; "Pātakh" (= bāt-qaq = quagmire) 403; But -khāk a vahāra-site 409; —+Various places+ 206, 220, (Gūm-rahān) 236, 238-47-48 (2), "Chāriākar" (Chār-yak-kār) 295, 345-73, 403, (Zābul) 405; —+Routes+ 206-9, 212, 228-35-54; book needs revision 330-67; a collaborator 213.

Notes on the Chugani and neighbouring tribes of Kafiristan, Col. H. S. Tanner (JRGS. 1881)—map mentioned 209; Dara-i-nūr 210, App. F; Nīng-nahār App. E, xix. [Cf. Index II s.n. chīqān.]

Notes on some monuments in Afghanistan, H. H. Hayden—Bābur's Grave (illustration) 710, App. V, lxxx.

Nouvelle Géographie; L'Asie Antérieure, Réclus—[see nn. on pp. named], Farghāna 4, 5, 9; distances (Akhsī) App. A, v, (Tīrmiẕ-Ḥiṣār) 57; Samarkand 74, 83, 88; Mīl-i-rādagān 622; Kadgar (i.a. Qajar) 666; sīghnāq = fort App. Q, lxiv; dābān and other pass-names 54.

+Noticeable words+:— P. nabīra 66, 72; nihilam (game-driving) 45; M. nūyān 131, 224-73.

Observatories see Astronomy.

Omens—of the sex of an unborn child App. L; of success 466, 558.

Onau, Sir Charles Elliot—Badshāh-nagar named from Bābur's halt 675.

"Oolak" (baggage-boat), perhaps from T. aūlūgh, great 663.

Open-table, maintainers of 39, 45-9, 119, 227.

Opium-eater 385.

Oriental Biographical Dictionary, T. W. Beale (ed. Keene) see Dictionaries.

Oriental Proverbs, T. Roebuck—the "five-days' world" 50.

+Noticeable words+:— M. Oghlāt = T. Dūghlāt = Qūngūr-āt of Aūzbegs 22.

Pādshāh—uses of the word 1; title assumed by Bābur 344.

Pādshāh-nāma, `Abdu'l-ḥamīd—lacunæ in an early copy of the Bābur-nāma App. D, x.

Pādshāh-nāma, Muḥammad Amīn Kazwīnī—Bābur's gardens in and near Kābul App. V; [cf. Malfūzāt-i-tīmūrī].

Pagan see Kāfir.

Painting and painters—22, 78, 111, 272-91.

Painting and Painters of Persia, Martin—Bih-zād 291.

Pargiter, Mr. F. E.—on "wulsa" 487-8, Add. Note, P. 487.

Pass-names 54.

Pass-words see Military.

Penmanship and scripts—good writers 28, 111, 278, 291; the Bāburī-script 228, 642, App. Q, lxii.

Pen-names—`Adilī 111, Ahī 289, Ahlī 290, `Arūzī 288, Badakhshī 288, Banā'ī 286, Bayānī 278, Fānī and Nawā'ī 272, Farāqī 137, Gharbatī 261, Hātifī 288, Hilālī 290, Ḥusainī 259, Kāmī 290, Sharaf 448, Suhailī 277, Tufailī 278, Wafā'ī 38, etc.

Persia and the Persian Question, Lord Curzon—its "Radkan" explained 622.

Persian Grammar, J. T. Platts (ed. Ranking) lunar months App. L, lxx.

Persian Poets, Sir W. Ouseley—Khwāja Kamāl 8.

"Pharoah" used as an epithet 39.

Poems of Niẕāmī (Meçon and Lahor eds.)—Haft Paikar quoted 6; Khusrau u Shīrīn:—parricide 85, Add. Note, P. 85; death inevitable 182 [here Turkī], App. D, xi [here Pers.; Maçon ed. iii, 1589]; Fate an avenging servitor 251, Add. Note, P. 251 [f. 281 in MS. of 317 ff.]; swift action a maker of victory 625; lovers' marks Add. Note, P. 16; —the Khamsatīn 15, 288.

Poems of Nūru'd-dīn `Abdu'r-raḥmān Jāmī—an exposition of the Nafaḥāt 284; the metre of the Subḥatu'l-abrār adopted in the Shaibānī-nāma 289, and in the Wālidiyyah-risāla 620 (where read raḥmān for "raḥīm").

Poems of Kipling—"My Lord the Elephant" 208; "The Border-thief" 308; "If—--" 320.

Poison—suspected 302, 576; given to Bābur 541; revealed by rhino-horn 489; antidotes, lime-juice 511, Lemnian Earth 543.

Political Mission to Afghanistan and Seistan, H. W. Bellew—birds at Āb-istāda 240; Qandahār 430, App. J, xxxiii.

Polyglot List of Birds, E. Denison Ross, Ph. D.—373, 495-6-7-8, 500, App. M, xlvi.

Popular Religion of Northern India, W. Crooks—Sarsāwa 467.

Prayers, The Five—`Umar Shaikh's observance of 15; voluntary Sunnat-prayer 100; Bābur (æt. 12) less neglects the after-midnight prayer 44; Aḥmad Mīrān-shāhī observes on drinking-days 33; a reverse case 111; Erskine on their "performance" 258; time expressed by their names passim.

Prisoners—rebels killed 69, 113; war-captives killed 233, 466-8; set free 37, 237, 313, 371, 413; traitors pardoned 317-9, 320, 345.

Projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, Sir W. F. Payne-Gallwey—stone ammunition 667.

Promotions—to begs rank from the household-circle 104; household beg to Great Beg 86, 104; yasāwal to beg 273; to begship 87, 114, 278; qūrchī to qūr-begī 252; brave to beg 396; —a beg self-made 118; (`Askari) to preside in Dīwān 628; (a Mīrzā) to royal insigna 662, 706; to use of the tūgh (standard), frequent.

Proverbs and sayings—90, 117, 24-5-8, 145-66-77-82-84-90-93, 223-7-8, 254, 310, 453-94, 542-3, 703.

Punishments—beard shaved off 404; blinding 50, 63, 95, 194, 266; bow-stringing 110, 194; quartering 238, 454, 543; hanging 345; impalement 341; nose-slitting 234, 383; parade mutilated 404, 234; shooting 543; skinning alive 542; for disloyalty 70, 113.

Puns and Quips—44, 115, 136-7, 150, 189, 287, 391, 529, 648.

+Noticeable words+:— P. pahr and pās distinguished 634; postīn 10.

Qandahar in 1879 AD., Le Mesurier—the old town 431; stone-ammunition ib.

Qandahar see La grande inscription de Q.

Qaṣidatu'l-burda, Al-buṣīrī—Bābur works from its motive 620; [cf. Réné Basset].

qibla—discrepancy 79.

qizil-bash (red-head) 266, 618-22-30-35.

The Qoran (trs. G. Sale)—quoted by Bābur 194, 316, 449; read by or to him, remedially, 401, Add. Note, P. 401, 585; copied by him in his Script 228; obeyed as to the Khams (5th) of booty 324; referred to by him 517; —`Umar Shaikh a reader of 15, Preface xxx; transcribers of 38, 481; recited 246, 301; frequent quotations by Shaikh Zain 553 to -6, 559 to -74; quoted on a Samarkand arch 77; sworn on 179, 557; Shaibānī makes exposition of 329; a collection of homonymous verses 285; Sale's Intro, referred to 562-3.

Quatremère, E.—(N. et Ex.) 446-59, (J. des Savans, 1843) 605.

Qirānu's-sa`dain, Amīr Khusrau—a couplet quoted 503 (H.B.).

+Noticeable words:+— qābāq 34; qāchār (punned on) 44; qārī (a measure) 7; qarā-tīyāq 101, 103; qāzāqlar (guerilla times) 35; qāptāl (part of a saddle) 253; qūba-yūzlūq (fat-faced) 14; qurchī (armourer, life-guardsman) i.a. 188, 288; qūchīn = mīng-begī 26, 40; qūrghān (walled-town) i.a. 3, 5, 8, 10; qūrūq (reserved land) 81, 168, 197; qūshūq (improvised dance and song) 24; qumīz (fermented mare-milk) 155; qūchūsh (embrace) 160; qūlāch (a measure) 406.

Races of Afghanistan, H. W. Bellew—Khīlīch 29 (where read title as above).

Raft—(Farghāna) 161, 180; (Kābul) 410-11-12-21-22-23, 447-8.

Rāmacārita, H. Sastri (Memoirs, AS Bengal) Nagarahāra App. E, xxiii.

Rāmpūr MS. of Bābur's Diwān, Preface 1, App. Q.

Rapid travel—Aūrā-tīpa to Bābā Khākī 25; Kishm to Qandahār 621; Kābul to Āgra 621.

Rashaḥāt-i-`ainu'l-ḥayāt [Tricklings from the Fount of Life] `Alī Kāshifī— Khwājakī Khwāja 62; Aḥrārī 620; [not known to Erskine].

Rauẓatu's-ṣafā, Mīr Khwānd—referred to (?) 11; Bābā-i-kābulī 14; Hazārāspī 50; a chronogram 85; the Chaghatāī Khāns (908 AH.) 161.

Récueils d'Itinéraires, Th. Radloff—fruit as food in C. Asia 3, 114; position of Yītī-kīnt 11; elevation to Khānship 21; Pul-i-mougak 68 (Khorochkine's art.); battle-cries 163.

Reports:— " on the Ghilzai country, J. S. Broadfoot [ed. W. Broadfoot]—birds at Āb-istāda 240; " of the Indian Archeological Survey, Cunningham & Ferguson—[see nn. on pp. named], places Bābur visited 475-6; a Gūālīār dynasty's term of rule 477; Chandīrī 592-7, App. R, (plan); Gūālīār 605-7 to 13; App. R, (plan); Saṃbhal 687; —Annual Report 1914—kos-mīnār 629; " on Karnal, D. Ibbetson—Mundāhirs 700; " of Mission to Kāshghar, Col. J. Biddulph's art.—marāl 8; " Persian Boundary Commission, W. T. Blanford's art.—Pteroclas arenarius App. B, vi; —A. Gérard's art.—irrigation-channels of Aūsh (Ūsh) 4; " Settlement Operations etc., Reid—old alluvium on the Gogrā 667; narrowing of the river 669; Reports (I. O. Library) I, VI, VII, J. Wood—vine-culture 210; Ghūr-bund 214; bootr (a plant) 222; climate-shed 229; —VI, VII, D. Leach—204-5-6-13-38; —IX, X, Alex. Burnes—Kābul 199; unchanging trade-habits of Luḥānīs 235.

"Rescue-passage" 182, App. D; Preface xlv (No. viii).

Revenue Accounts (Bengal), F. Gladwin—dating of 935 AH. 629, App. S; tanāb-measure 630.

Revenue resources of the Mughal Empire, E. Thomas—coin-values 446; ṯamghā 553; Sikandarī tanka 577.

Revenues various—Farghāna 12, Tātār Khān Lūdī's 383, Kābul-town 250, Hindustān 520, App. P.

Rhétorique, Garçin de Tassy—combinaisons énigmatiques 202.

Ride from Samarkand to Herat, N. Grodekoff (trs. Marvin)—Pul-i-chīrāgh 69; Chār-shaṃba 71.

Riyazu's-salāṯīn, Ghulām-i-husain—a Lūdī alliance 482.

Roads measured—Agra-Kabul 629; Munīr to camp by horse-paces 666; Chunār eastwards 659.

ruler, misṯār—a new one for copying the Wālidiyyah-risāla 643.

Russian Policy in Central Asia, Grigorief (Schuyler's Turkistan App. IV)—Bābur's embassy to Moscow App. Q, lxiii; Peter the Great's embassy to Bukhara Preface p. liii.

Sachau, C.—on the Malfūzāt-i-tīmūrī 653.

Ṣāḥih-i-bukhārī, Ismā`īl Khartank—his native land 76.

Sainthood—courage a witness to 90.

Siyaru'l-muta`akhirīn, Ghulām-i-ḥusain Khān—trepanning 105.

Salt, fidelity to 125, 440.

Samarkand begs—action of 52, 62, 86, 124-5.

Samarkandis—displeased with a Mīrzā 42; overjoyed at his death 52; no scarcity in a siege 64; move against Bukhārā 65; oppose Bābur 72; their orthodoxy 75; joy at Bābur's return 131-3.

Sanctuary 63.

Sang-lākh see Dictionaries.

Sārt, Sāīrt—Bābur's serviceable use of the name 6, 7, 149; a "Sāīrt"'s blunder 169.

Science of Language, Max Müller—guest-tribes 227.

Scottish service for the Bābur-nāma, Preface xlvii, xlviii.

Second Afghan War (Official Account)—its maps 201-6, 229, 314-32; Chār-dih 200; Qandahār App. J, xxxiii; `Alī-masjid 450; a valuable book in following Babur's campaigns, 333.

Second Journey through Persia, J. J. Morier (Ḥājī Bābā)—a bird App. B, vi.

Sects, Muḥammadan—Mātarīdiyah, Ash`ariyah, Abū Ḥanīfa's 75-6, Shafi`ī 283; Radīyān 625.

Shāhī Kings of Kābul, Sir Aurel Stein—200.

Shāh-nāma, Firdausī [trs. Warner] Chāchī bow, khadang arrows 13; much read 15; Bāqī Tarkhān sketched 40; a couplet 557; a quatrain 571.

Shaibānī-nāma, Muḥ. Ṣāliḥ Mīrzā [ed. Vambéry]—[see nn. on pp. named], writes "Shaibānī" not Shaibāq 12; Sh.'s marriages, with Bābur's sister 17-8, 147, and with Zuhra Aūzbeg 126-8; his dealings with Zuhra's son `Alī 126-8, with Bābur 144-6-7, with the Chaghatāī Khāns 182-3-4; later action 191-2; —Taṃbal 145, 244; others 40, 62, 101, 196; Chīn Ṣūfī 242-56; Khusrau Shāh's jewels 144; Oghlāt (Dūghlāt) 22; Chirkas sword 65; Khwāst a hell 221, bāghrī qarā App. B, v, vii; the book and its author 64, 120-1-7 [cf. Tuḥfa-i-Sāmī I.O. 655, f. 342].

Shajarat-i Turk, Abū'l-ghāzī Mīrzā [ed. Fræhn, trs. Désmaisons]—[see nn. on pp. named], "Nurīm" Sherīm etc. 29; an archer's mark 34; san = dīm 154; tūghāī, tūqāī (bend of a river) 643; a Shabān sulṯān 265; of Bābur's descent see its Introduction.

Shajaratu'l-atrāk, Aūlugh Beg Shahrukhī (trs. Miles)—Bābur's descent see its Introduction.

Sharaf-nāma, Sharaf Khān (trs. F. E. Charmoy)—Battle of Jām 635.

Sharafu'd-dīn `Alī Yazdī—his book on enigmas 201; his Z̤afar-nāma (see s.n.) Preface xxix.

Shaving—Bābur's first 187; Humāyūn notes his in the B.N. 466; beard shaved as punishment 404; untrimmed by vow 552; head shaved 408, 649.

Shī`a heresy—instances 258-62-86, 111 (and return); Bābur's fatal Shī`a alliance, 347-54-55-61, Preface xxxv.

Sikh religion—Nānak's exposition to Bābur 461; Nānak and Daulat Khān ib.

Siyāsat-nāma [Traité de gouvernement], Wazīr Niẕamu'l-mulk, [ed. C. Schefer]—use of a whip in making count of an army 154.

Slaves—slave-women retaliate on their owner's murderers 63, are captured at the Samarkand ditch 73, taken by crocodiles 502; slave-agents in poisoning Bābur 541; —Shāh Beg's faithful slave see Saṃbhal; the chief-slave 346; slave-trade between Hind and Kābul 202; —Mīnglī Bībī, a slave-woman 269.

Song by Wordsworth recalled—the "undying fish" 305.

Spanish Literature, Ticknor—Montalvan on Lope de Vega 287.

Sport and politics under an Eastern sky, Lord Ronaldshay—marāl 8.

" and Travel, F. C. Selous—marāl 8.

Square seal—Abū-sa`īd's 28.

Standards (tūgh, qūtās-tūgh)—acclaimed 155; bestowed 372 etc.; Bābur's 140-66 etc.

Sūlūku'l-mulūk, Faẓl b. Ruzbahān Isfahānī—value as a source 348; supports the form "Bābur" 356.

Supplément etc., R. Dozy see Dictionaries.

Swimming—man and horse in mail 140, 237; man and horse bare 237; competition 401; on bundles of reeds 673; Bābur's (in mail) 140, 603-55-660-61.

+Noticeable words+:— P. sar-i-sabz, green-head 66, 703; P. sar-kob 53-9; sangur 232; sīghnāq, a script App. Q, lxiii.

T̤abaqāt-i-akbarī, Niẕāmu'd-dīn Ahmad—[see nn. on pp. named], Bāburī Script 228, App. Q, lxii; Jang-jang 370; date of Shāh Beg's death 437; Hazāras serve Bābur 457; Gujrāt affairs 535; Multan affairs 699; Bābur's Kashmīr force 692-8; the author's father 691; proposed supersession in Hind of Bābur's sons 644-88-92-93, discussed 702 ff.; the book plagiarized 693.

" -i-bāburi, Shaikh Zainu'd-dīn Khawāfī see B.N. and Zain.

" -i-nāṣirī, Minhaj [trs. Raverty] Sātūq-būghrā Khān 29 [where read T̤abaqāt]; Chandwāl 537; quoted by Bābur 479; described by Erskine 279; used in Appendix E, xxiii.

ṯamghā (lit. stamp), a transit or customs duty 250; forms the revenue of Kābul town ib.; Ḥusain Bai-qarā marks his stamps Bih bud (valid) 271; remission of 553-95; a ṯamghāchī clerk 629.

Tārīkh-i-`ālam-arāī, Mīr Sikandar—[see nn. on pp. named], its Ṣafawī outlook 349; T̤ahmasp's Aūzbeg campaign 622; Battle of Jām 623; insignificant appearance of `Ubaidu'l-lāh 636.

" -i-badāyūnī see Muntakhabu't-tawārīkh.

" -i-daudī, `Abdu'l-lāh—"Shaikh" and "Mīān" interchangeable titles 457.

" -i-firishta, Muḥ. Qāsim Firishta [trs. Major-Gen. J. Briggs]—`Umar Shaikh 13; a mistake 15; Bābur's reluctance to rank himself with Tīmūr 134; his single combats 329; his sobriquet Qalandar 523; his Embassy to Persia 540; his siege of Chandīrī 596; —Yar-i-`alī Balāl 91; Ghāzī Khan's literary culture 460; the cognomen jān-dār 566; Badrū-ferry over Gogrā 667; —value of the book as a source 208, 349, 694; date of its revision 694.

Tārīkh-i-Gūālīārwār, Jalāl Ḥiṣārī and Hirā-man—Gūāliār 605; Khw. Raḥīm-dād 607, 688, 704.

" -i-Hājī Muḥ. `Ārīf Qandahārī—account of Qandahār 348.

" -i-Khān-i-jahān Lūdī, Ni`amatu'l-lāh—helped in his book by Haibat Khan 693.

" -i-rashīdī, [Muḥ. ] Haidar Mirza Dūghlāt [ed. Ney Elias, trs. E. D. Ross]—+Places+:—Ālmalīgh 2; Yītī-kīnt 11; Qilāt-i-nādarī 263; Qila`-i-ẕafar 21; Herāt 306; Qandahār [Insc.] App. J, xxxv; +Tribes etc.+:—tūmān-begs 17; qūchīn 26; chuhra-jirga App. H, xxvii; Chaghatāīs and Mughūls distinguished 320; Chaghatāī or Timurid supremacy 344, Begchīks 50, 712 or Chīrās 155; Tarkhāns 31; Greek descent 317; Jīgrāks 55; Turkmān Hazāras 311; +Persons+:—12—App. A, iii; 21, 23, 32, 48, 62; Jahāngīr 183, 254-94-302, 195-242-56, 249-272, 273; 330-41-96-7, 409; 641; 694-6; +Varia+:—fruit as food 3; yāk, qūṯās App. M, xlvii; on joint-rule 293; epoch-making events 20, 35, 158, 182, 350; +Bābur+:—name 17; character 194, 320; Script App. Q, lxii; disastrous expedition (910 AH.) 241; relationships 246; single combats 349; Tramontane campaign 349 to 366; hospitality to exiles 350; a frontier affair 412; onset of last illness 706; +Haidar+:—his life saved 21; descent and other particulars 22; excuses his father 317; his list of tribes and chiefs valuable 415; his book of great and, perhaps, unique value for Bābur's lacunæ 347-8; referred to Preface xxxiv, xxxviii; his Codex xli, xlii (No. iv).

" -i-salāṯīn-i-afāghana, Aḥmad Yādgār [part-trs. E. & D. vol. I]—Hindustan in 929 AH. 439-40; Pānīpat 474; Bābur's visit to Lāhor (936 AH.) 604-98 to 700, 703-6; Mundāhirs 700; anachronism 707; Bābur's "selection" of a successor 707; importance of its contribution for filling a lacuna 693, 702-6.

" -i-shahrukhī, Niyāz Muḥ. Khukandī—tradition of a babe abandoned 358.

" -i-sher-shāhī, `Abbas Khān Sarwānī—"Shaikh" and "Mīān" 457; `Aẕam Humāyūn 477; Sher Khān Sūr 659, 664.

" -i-Sind, Muḥ. Ma`ṣūm Bhakkarī—a chief authority 336, 428; Shāh Beg 338, 427, (death) 437; sieges of Qandahār 431 to 436; the Inscription App. J, xxxiii.

Tarkhān—suitable meaning 31 [where add ref. E. & D.'s H. of I. i, 300, 20, 21, 498] privileges nine 250; not given to all Arghūn chiefs 249 n. 2; a merchant Tarkhān 133; marriages 49, Preface xxviii; revolt 61 to 64, 86, 112; see s.n. Nine & H. Beveridge's note on Etruscan names.

Tarkhān-nāma or Arghūn-nāma, Sayyid Jamāl—a useful source 428.

Tawārīkh-i-guzīda—(Select Histories)—fashions of sitting and kneeling 33, 54-9; Tūlūn Khwāja Mughūl 66; supplements the B. N. 127.

" -i-ḥāfī-i-raḥmat-khānī (part-trs. H. Beveridge AQR. 1901)—Bībī Mubār-ika's marriage with Bābur 375, App. K, An Afghan Legend.

Taẕkirātu'sh-shu`arā (Memoirs of Poets) Daulat-shāh (ed. Browne)—[see nn. on pp. named], Akhsīkītī 9; dates of Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī's boyhood 46; Aḥmad Mushtāq 47; Hazārāspī 50; a couplet 85; Ḥusain Bāī-qarā 259-60-73; Gāzur-gāhi's good birth 281; Rabāt-i-sangbast 301-30; Bih-būd Beg App. H, xxvi-vii; Rādagān-(town) 622; Jamī's birthplace 623; —the author in the battle of Chīkmān-sarāī 46; one of his collaterals 274.

" -i-Sulān Sātūq-būghrā Khān—a seeming descendant 29.

" -i-T̤ahmāsp, Shāh T̤ahmāsp Ṣafawī (ed. D. C. Phillott)—Div Sulṯān 635; battle of Jām 636.

" -i-Wāqi`āt (var.) Jauhar (trs. C. Stewart)—outside literary criticism 619; a date at which Bābur's body lay near Kābul 709.

+Tents+—ālāchūq 188; aūtāgh 339; aq-awi = chādar 169-88, 239, (flooded) 339, 678; chār-tāq 264; khar-gāh ( = kibītka, and ālāchuq ?) 239, 678; —shamīāna (awning) 358; tūnglūq (roof-flap) 678; pesh-khāna 678.

Thesaurus, Meninsky—bāghrīqarā cry App. B, vi; baḥrī-qūṯās App. M, xlvi.

Thomas, F. W., Ph.D.—his help App. J, lxxiv with Preface lii.

Thorn-defences 487.

Timūr-pūlād, buys a Codex of the W'āqi`nāma-i-padshahī q.v.

Three (Turkī) MSS. from Kāshghar [ed. Sir E. Denison Ross]—the title Jūn-wang 567.

Through unknown Pamirs, O. Olufsen—yāk App. M, xlvii.

The Times—on diverse names of a single place 209.

Tongues and utterance—Andijān Turkī 4; Farsī (Persian)-speaking Sārts of Asfara 7; Kābul's polyglot tongues 207; Mughūlī-speaking Hazāras; Bābur on clipped Hindustanī utterance 380, and on the words Kās and Sawālak 485.

Trade—202-35, 331, 416-85.

Traditions—4, 5; one versed in 283-4.

Translators:—Bābur [Wal.-ris.]; E. C. Bayley (Mirāt); A. S. Beveridge [s.n.]; H. Beveridge [s.n.]; H. Blochmann [s.n.]; H. S. Jarrett [Ayīn]; J. Briggs [Tar.-i-fir.]; F. C. Charmoy [Sharaf-n.]; W. Clarke [Dīwān-i-Ḥ.]; A. P. de Courteille [Méms.]; Delmar-Morgan [Mong.]; Desmaisons [Shaj.-i-Turk]; E. B. Eastwick [Gul.]; H. M. Elliot and J. Dowson [H. of I.]; Forster & Daniel [Life of O. de B.]; C. Hamilton [Hidāyat]; W. H. Lowe & G. S. A. Ranking [Munt.]; H. E. Lloyd [Travels]; G. du Laurens [Voyages]; C. E. Markham [Embassy]; R. Marvin [Ride]; W. Ouseley [Or. Geo.]; F. Pélis de la Croix, elder & younger [Histoire]; G. S. A. Ranking [see Lowe; and `Arūz]; H. G. Raverty [T̤ab.-i-n.]; M. Reinaud [Geo.]; G. Sale [Qorān]; B. R. Sanguinetti & T. Lee [Travels]; H. Sastri [Rama.]; C. Stewart [Taẕ.]; A. Vambéry [Shai.-n.]; Warner [Shāh-n.]; E. H. Whinfield [Mas. and `Umar].

Transliteration 2.

Transmigration 518.

Travels in Bukhara, Sir Alex. Barnes—[see nn. on pp. named], nuzla, a Panj-āb disease 446; water-fall fishing 227;

" in Europe and Asia, Peter Mundy (ed. Sir R. Temple)—baoli (a well) 533; Gūālīār 605.

" in India, Pietro della Vallé—the morning-draught 395.

" of Ibn Batūta (trs. Sanguinetti & Lee)—Samarkand the Protected City 75, Add. N.P. 75; Kajwarra 590; Raḥīm-dād 693; 704.

" in Kashmir, G. T. Vigne—yāk and kosh-gau App. M, xlv-vii.

" in Panj-āb (etc.), Mohan Lall—Herāt 305-6; Qandahār Insc. App. J; Bābur's burial-place 710.

" of the Russian Mission, G. Timkovsky [trs. H. E. Lloyd] fruit as food 3.

" on the Upper and Lower Amoor, T. W. Atkinson—marāl 8.

Tribes and Castes of the N. W. P. and Oude, W. Crooke—Jats 454; Nuḥānī (or Luhānī) 455; Jaghat (serpent) 456; Tānk 481.

Tribes and other groups:— +Afghān+:—`Abdu'r-raḥmān 403; Afrīdī 411-2; Aūghān 217-20; Aūrūq-zāī 526; Bīlūt 248; Bīrkī 207; Dilah-zāk 231, 367-94, 412-3; Dilah-zāk Ya`qūb-khail 394; Gagīānī 251; Ghiljī 323-31; `Isa-khail 233; Jasawāl var. Jaswān 462; Jalwānī see Index I; Khattak 439; Khirilchī 208-20-49-413; Khiẓr-khail 413; Khūgīānī 220; Kīwī 233; Kūrānī, Kārānī, Kararānī 233, 477; Landar 220; Lūdī 481, Index I; Lūdī khaṣa-khail i.e. Sahū-khail 465; Lūdī Sarang-khānī 540, 654; Luḥānī see Nuḥanī; Mahmand 221, 323-31-45; Muḥammad-zāī 376 (where read as here); Nīā-zāī 233; Nuḥānī 235 (cf. 455 n. 3), Index I; Pānī 540; Pashāī(?) 207; Samū-khail (Khīrīlchī?) 412; Sūr 233; Tarkalānī 242, 424; Tūrī 220; Wazīrī 413; Yūsuf-zāī 231, 371-3-5-6, 400-10-19; —Afghāns of Bhīra 399, Ghazni 218, Sind riverain 218-36, Kābul 207-21; —Afghān thieves 208, 341; Afghān warrings in Hind 426, and power 480-1; serving Bābur 522; bad-mannered 451;— +Aūz-beg+ ("Ūzbeg"):—2, 37, 135, 622, Index I; Aūz-beg Qāzzāq ("Cossack") 23; Aūz-beg Mankfīt 195;— +Chaghatāī+ (i.e. Chaghatāī Khān's tribal appanage):—extinct but for their Khāns in 1547 (953 AH.) Tār. Rash. trs. 149; near Herī 320, 689; its Kohbur clan 55; high families in, Sighal 66, 72, Nawā'ī's (Index I); distinguished from Mughūls 320, 351, Turks 340;— +Mughūls of the Horde+:—105-92; tūmans (groups of 10,000):—Bārīn 19, 473; Begchīk 155; Chīrās 158; Sāghārīchī 20; sub-divisions (?):—Bīshāghī (var.) 473; Darbān 60; Itārajī 161, 415; Jalair 91; Kūnchī 20; Qālmāq 23; Manghīt 101; —Mughūl devastation 2, 98, 172, 362; faithlessness 105, 140 etc.; conduct on the Chīr 17, 31-4; the Horde divided 19; its dislike for cultivated lands 12; its āīmāqs in open land 221-54-55; return from enforced migration 20, 350-1;— +Turk+:—Afshār 354; Aūīghūr (Awīghūr, Uīghūr) 40, 118; its Ishrit clan 40, 65; Barlās 51, 429, Index I; Barlās Dūldāī 25, 37; Daryā-khānī 231, 589; Istiljū 353; Khilij 482; Qīpchāq 19, 49; —Turks of Andijān 4, Kabul-lowlands 207-15-21; early Turk rulers of Kābul 200; contrasted with Sārts 149; —Uses of the name, "Mughūl and Turk" 158, 402, "Chaghatāī and Turk" 340; "Turk and Tīmūrid" one 380-2-4-8-9; probable statement of B.'s descent 320; his claim to rule in Hind, based on Turk descent 380-2-4, 476-9; Turk warning to Bīāna 529;— +Turkmān+:—White-sheep Horde 49 (where read White for "Black"); —its Bahārlū clan 49; its Balāl 911 and Bayandar 279; —Black-sheep Horde 10; Qajar 666; Turkmāns serve Bābur 47, 279, 361; —features 111; —Hazāras (infra); Tūrūq-shār 101;—

+Various+:—`Arab 207, 522, 631; Arlāt (Turk?) 265; Ashpārī 101; Asiqānchī [var. Saqānchī] 197; Balūchī 383, 459, 522; Bengali (race) 482; Būgīāl 452; Kāfir 212-3, 342-72, 421; Kakar (var.) 387-9; Kas 484; Kīb (or Kītib) 393; Meos 577; Farsī (Persian, race) 7, 207, 507-55; Ghiyās-wāl (or -dāl) 393; Gūjūr 250, 379-87, 454; Habshi 483; Janjuha-khail and Jūd-khail 379-80-87; Jats 250, 387, 454; Jīgrāk (var.) 55, 101; Nīkdīrī (var.) 196-7, 200-1-7, 275, 326, 430 (cf. E. & D. iv, 304, Tukdari) Nīl-ābī 379 (see Index II); Parājī 207;— Rājpūt;— Chūhān 573, Tānk sept 481;— Tājik 6, 207, 420, 535;— +Hazāra+ (1000):—Gadāī or Kīdī 250, Qārlūq 391-3, 403; Rustāq [or Rusta] 196; Sl. Mas`ūdī 221-8, 525; Turkmān 27, 214-51, 311 to 313; +Hazāras+:—w. of Kābul 200-7-22, 430; e. of the Sind 457, 522; in the open country of Ghazni 218, Kābul 221, Heri-rūd valley 308; refuge taken amongst 95; traversed 254.

Tribute—Jīgrāk 55, Ghazni 240, Yūsuf-zāī 375, Bhīra 384, Kakar 391, Bajaur and Sawād 400, Balkh 402; Nijr-aū 421; Koh-i-jūd 379.

Tuḥfa-i-sāmī (a Turkī anthology), Sām M. Ṣafawi—Marwārīd 278; syphilis 279; a jeer 648.

The twelve Imāms, 258, 354.

Turkī tongue, Preface xxvii, Cap. iv.

Turkistan, Alex. Petzhold—Ṣārts 6.

" E. Schuyler—[see nn. on pp. named], +Farghāna+:—extent of 2, various 5, 6, 8; (wind) 9; (out-of-doors life) 29; kūk-būrā (a game) 39; Old Akhsī App. A; Ṣārts 6;— +Samarkand+:—67, 74-5-7, 83, (Aūrgūt) 68; Kesh 83; +Various+:—Sarā-tāq pass 129; Lake Iskandar ib. Hazrat Turkistan (shrine) 356; a distance 9; a lizard 501;— Bābur's Moscow Embassy App. Q, lxiii; Gregorief's Russian Policy, (App. iv trs.) Preface, liii.

" Franz v. Schwarz—autumn fever 4; running-waters 4, recipe for ma`jūn 16; yīghāch (measure) 4; a Kīrghis measure 196; loess constructions 30; charkh (a hunting bird) 224; Mogol-tau 8; duties of the Lord of the Gate 24; kūk būrā, baiga 39; Greek descent 22; various App. A, v.

Tūzūk-i-jahāngīrī, Jahāngīr Pādshāh (trs. Rogers and Beveridge)—Bugials 452; Daulat Khān Lūdī 461; measures 189; birds 497; kīshmīsh 515; couplet 670; metrical amusement App. Q, lxvi-vii; its titles for Bābur varied ib. lxi; Jahāngīr's additions to the B.N. App. D, xiii, Preface xlv (No. viii), lii; his pilgrimage to B.'s burial-garden App. V, lxxx; his stay in B.'s Garden ib.

+Noticeable words+:— tabalghū, a tree 11; tāsh-chantāī, outside bag (?) 160; ṯāsh, stone confused with tāsh, outer 3, 43, 78, 80, 160; ṯaūrī, complete, enclosed 109, 280, 501 (where this better describes the koel's song); tipūchāq a horse and its points 38; tīr-gīẓ, arrow 34; tīrik 36, 362; P. tū, turn of a hill 205-8 etc.; tūlūk vegetable food, other than grain 114; tūn-yārīm, half-dark 100; tūrā (ordinances) 38; tūrā (army mantelets) 108-13-55, 368, 469, 593; tūmān, 10,000, a district command 17; tūq-bāī, one using a standard 313; tūlghuma s.n. Military; tusqāwal 224, 314; tūghāī and tuqāī 643.

`Umar Khayyām's Quatrains (trs. E. H. Whinfield)—a couplet Babur's words recall 203.

Upper Basin of the Kābul-river, Sir C. Markham (PRGS. 1879)—Hindu-kush passes 204, maps of Koh-i-baba 216.

Veliaminof-Zernof, editor of the Sharaf-nāma 635 and Abūshqa App. Q, lxiii.

Vergleichunge-Tabellen des Muh. and Christlichen Zeitrechnung, F. Wüstenfeld—dates of 935 AH. 629, App. S.

Verses:—of untraced authorship 332, 316 and 670; verse-making 15, 22, 38-9, 46, 54, 111, 136-7, 154; Bābur's opinion of Nawā'ī's Turkī verse 271; Shaibanī's verses made public 329; composition on a model 448;— Metrical amusements 585-6, App. Q, lxv-vi.

Vikramāditya Era 79 (where read began).

Virgil—citron-juice as an antidote 511; Scorpio and Libra 623.

Visit to Ghuzni (etc.), G. T. Vigne—[see nn. on pp. named], boundary between Afghāns and Khurāsān 200; Kābul-river ib.; `Uqābain 201; rhubarb 203; ṣāḥibī-grapes 203; Dūr-nāma 215; Running-sands 215; Pāmghān villages 216; arghwān 217;— various:—218-9, 224, 227; "Tānk" for Tāq 233; routes 208, 235; Bīlah on the Indus 237; see App. E, xxiii.

Visit to Kafiristan, W. W. Macnair (PRGS. 1884)—Nīng-nahār App. E, xxiii.

Voyage dans le Turkistan, Fedtschenko (trs. G. du Laurens)—Sang-aina, Mirror-stone, 7.

" dans l'Asie septentrionale, P. S. Pallas—āq kīyīk, argālī (Ovis poli) 6.

" des Pélerins Bouddhistes, S. A. Julien—Nanganahāra App. E, xviii.

Voyages en Perse et autres lieux d'Orient, Jean Chardin—lovers'-marks 16; square seal 28; Sīkīz-yīldūz, Eight-stars 139; kipkī "casbeké" (a coin) 296; epistolary etiquette 332.

Wāqi`-nāma-i-pādshāhī (Record of Royal Acts), `Abdu'l-wahhāb akhund of Ghajdāvān (1709)—(found mentioned as the Bābur-nāma, the "Bukhārā Bābur-nāma" and the "Bukhārā Compilation")—for its seeming author's colophon JRAS. 1900, p. 474 and Preface lvii; its divergence from the true text Preface xxxix, its element of true text (Kāmrān's tattered Codex) li; its dual purpose xxxix, lxii; its character xl; its stop-gaps xlv; its use by Leyden xlviii; +Described+ (as it is in Kehr's transcript):—Preface, Cap. III, Parts I and III; its history liii, author and colophon lvii, (cf. JRAS. 1900, p. 474); its identity confused with Bābur's true text Preface, Cap. III,

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