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_Akbar-nāma_, Shaikh Abū'l-faẓl _`Allāmīy_, (_trs. H. Beveridge_)—(_see
notes on pp. given_) +meanings+:—_bāt-qāq_ 31;
_nihilam_ and _tasqāwal_ 45;
Tardīka 568;
Tarkhān 34;
_fīl-i-daryā'i_ App. M. xlvii;
—+persons+:—13, 22, 263-4, 346, 552, 562, 641, 657;
—+various places+:—191, 206, 441, 523, App. J, xxxv;
—winter access to Farghāna 2;
Niẕāmī quoted 44;
an inscription of Bābur's 343;
Rūmi defences 469;
the(Koh-i-nūr) diamond 477;
a cognomen 566;
risks to MSS. App. D, x;
Akbar-nāma material *441-5, *691-3;
Bābur supplemented 639;
length of work on it *692 n.;
Mubīn passage translated in the "Fragments" (_q.v._) *437-8;
Bābur's self-devotion *701;
his choice of a successor *702 to 705,
mentioned Preface xxxiii;
translated from by Jahāngīr (?) xlv.

`Alī-sher _Nawā'ī's_ comforts 287.

_Allgemeine Erdkunde_, Carl Ritter—Barā-koh 5;
Bābur's _farsī-gūī_ useful 7;
Akhsī distances App. A, v.

_`Amal-i-ṣāliḥ_, Muḥ. Ṣāliḥ—Shāh-jahān's destruction of wine 298;
_tūīgūn_ (bird) 418.

_Amanitates exoticae_, Engelbertus Kæmpfer—_Ijtihād_ 284.

Amusements _see_ Games.

_Ancient Geography of India_, Major-Gen. Sir Alex. Cunningham—(_see
nn. on pp. named_) Shibr-tu 205;
Nīl-āb 206;
Kohistān villages 214;
Gūrkhattri 230;
Bigrām 230;
Udyān-apūra App. E, xxi.

_Annals and Antiquities of Rajastan_ Col. James Tod—Sangā's force 547;
negociations with Bābur 550;
appearance 558;
Ṣalāḥu'd-dīn (Silhādi) 562.

Antidotes—lime-juice 511,
Lemnian earth 543.

_Anwar-i-suhailī_, Ḥusain Wā`iẕu 'l-kāshīfī—quoted 22;
Firdausi quoted 557,
Add. N, P. 557.

Apostates 577-8, 590-1.

Arabic Sciences 283-5.

_`arāq_ see fermented drinks, _s.n._ Wine.

Archery[2949]—[_see nn. on pp. named_], _good bowmen_ 16, 22, 26,
34 (2),
cross-bowman 53, 263;
remarkable feats 276, 279;
—_archer's marks_:—_ilbāsūn_ (duck), _qabāq_ (gourd), _tūqūq_ (hen)
34,
_takhta_ (target);
_qabāq-maidān_ 276;—
_arrows_:—_aūq_ 22, 34, 255,
_etc._, _giz_ 213, 225,
_khadang_ (white poplar) 13,
_tīr-giz_ 11
(_where preface n. 2 by the name_), 34;
arrow-barb, _paikān_ 22,
-notch, _gosha_ App. C, -flight 8, 140;
flights of arrows 52;
rain of, 138;
quiver T. _sāghdāq_ 160, 166,
P. _tarkash_ 526;
an arrow-borne letter 361;
—_bows_:—Chāchī bow (_kamān_) 13;
cross-bow _takhsh-andāz_, _kamān-i-guroha_ 55, 263;
_narmdīk yāī_, an easy-bow 420;
_qātīq yāī_, a stiff-bow 490;
—bows ruined by Hindūstān climate 519, *700;
—_various_:—_chaprās_, _daur_, _gosha_, _kamān-khāna_, _kardāng_
explained App. C;
_gosha-gīr_, a repairing-tool 166, App. C;
Turkish bow-making a fine craft App. C, ix;
dismounting to shoot 52;
—_to bow-string_ (T. _kīrīsh sālmāq_) 110.

Architecture Timuriya and Timurid Pr. xxxi.

_Archiv für Asiatische Litteratur_ H. J. Klaproth (_q.v._)—Kasan
gardens 10;
his extracts from the Bukhara Compilation MSS. Pr. xxxix, xlvii.

_Ariana Antiqua_, H. H. Wilson—_Masson's art. Actīnapūr Region_ 227,
Nagarāhāra App. E, xvii.

_Army of the Indian Moghuls_, W. Irvine—trepanning 109;
misled 470;
on _muljār_ (_q.v._) 592;
"_shātur_" explained 593;
_firingi_ (gun) 473,
pontoon-bridges 600.

_`Arūz-i-saifi_, Maulāna Sayyid Maḥmūd _Saifi_
of Bukhāra, (_trs. Blochmann and Ranking_)—a note by Rieu 288;
Saifi's pupil Bāī-sunghar 111;
his high number of rubā'i measures App. Q, lxvi.

_Asia Portuguesa_, Manuel de Faria y Sousa—Habshi succession custom
482.

_Astronomy and Astrology_—Tables and Observatories 74, 79, Pr. xxx;
Canopus (Suhail) 195;
forecasts 139, 551;
houses of Scorpio 633;
Pole-star a guide 323,
its altitude at Chandīrī 597;
Capricorn 597.

_Ayīn-i-akbarī_, Abū-faẓl (_trs. Blochmann, Jarrett_)—(_see nn. on pp.
named_);
Climates 1;
_qīlīj_ (cognomen) 29;
observatories 79;
guns 473;
clepsydra 516;
kitchen rules 541;
fruits 3, 501-3-4-5, 512;
_chalma_ 624;
hunting deer 630;
_baḥrī_ (falcon) 632;
_mīlak_ (gold, cloth) 641;
_yak-tai_ (unlined) 652;
—+(weights and measures)+ _khar-war_ 228,
_tānāb_ 630,
_sang_=_tāsh_ 632;
—a title 209;
a child traveller 265;
Barlās begs 270;
+(places)+ Kābul 207, 221;
Kacha-kot 250;
Sidhpūr 429;
Nagarāhāra App. E, xxiii;
Buhlūlpūr 454;
Kanwāhīn 458;
Milwat (Malot) 461;
Jahān-nāma 485;
Chausath 581;
Lakhnūr 582;
Sikandra Rao 587,
Godi, Gūī 601;
—+(persons)+ 285, 653, 666, App. P, lvi;
—Bābur's expedition to Kashmīr 693.

_Agār-i-sanādīd_, Sayyid Aḥmad Khān—places Bābur visited 475;
Mahdī Khwāja and Amīr Khusrau's tomb 704.

+Noticeable words+:
—P. _āb-duzd_ 109 = P. _dū-tahī_ 62, 595-6;
_aīkī-sū-ārā_ = P. _miyān-dū-āb_ (Mesopotamia) _i.a_ 88;
_aīmāq_ (clan) 51, 196, 207-15-55, Add. Note P. 49; M.
_ālāchī_ whence _Alacha_ 23;
_arghamchī_ 614; _āsh-kīna_ (stew) 4;
_aūdālīq_ (odalisque) = P. _ghūnchachī_ _q.v._;
_aūghlān_ (child, boy, non-regnant chief) 19;
_aūgh-lāqchī_ 39;
_aūrchīn_ 44, 88;
_aūng_, _ūng_ (Prester John's title) 23;
_aūpchīn_ 176, 282;
Aūz-beg, -khān, -kīnt, _i.a_ 162, (_see_ A.N. trs. i, 160, 170);
_āyīk-aūt_ = P. _mihr-giyāh_ (mandrake) 11.

_The Bābur-nāma_, Z̤ahīru'd-dīn Muḥ. Bābur (Lion) Mīrzā and (later)
Pādshāh _Ghāzī_.

I. SECTIONS OF THE BOOK:—(_The record of præ-accession
years is lost Pr. xxxvi_); (1) +Farghāna+ 1-182, (Trs. N.
[_bridging a gap_] 182-185); (2) +Kābul+ 187-346, (Trs. N.
347-366), 367-425, (Trs. N. 426-444); (3) +Hindustān+ 445-602,
(Trs. N. 603-4), 605-690, (Trs. N. 691-716);

SUB-SECTIONS:—(_a_) +Descriptions+ of Farghāna 1-12, Kābul
199-227, Herāt 304-5, Hindustān 480-521, Chandīrī 592, 596,
Gūālīār 605-614; (_b_) +Biographies+ of Yūnas Khān 19-24 (_see
infra, displacements_), of Mīrān-shāhīs _viz._ `Umar Shaikh
13-19, 24-28, Aḥmad 33-40, Maḥmūd 45-51, Bāī-sunghar 110-112,
of Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ 256-292, of amīrs _etc._ 24, 37, 49, 270;

II. LACUNÆ:—(_other than mentioned above_); minor in 935 AH.
_see_ dating and nn. on pp. 617, 621, 630, 636, 687, and for
surmised patching from fragments of 934 AH. 654, 655, 680; (1)
+References to events of the gaps+ _see_ nn. on pp. 105, 364
—208, 441, 575 —381 —408, 422 —(of 934 AH.) 603, 617, 618, 621
—an Akbar-nāma indication 639; (2) +Varia concerning the
gaps+:—Causes of, Pr. xxxiv; misinterpreted xxxv; results in
present displacement xxxvi;

III. VARIA CONCERNING THE BOOK:— (1) +Date of composition+,
[_see nn. on pp. named_]; 48, 50, 79, 98 —102, 105 —139, 154,
176, 190 (l. 5 fr. ft.) 198 —203-4-6-8 —214-18-19-20 (_para.
3_), 269-76-78-85 —313 ("now" _para. 2_), 314 ("now" l. 4),
315 (l. 2), 318 (_para._ 2), 337 (l. 16), 373 (l. 8 fr. ft.),
374; (2) +Literary style and idiom+:— plain diction 2, precise
wording _e.g._ 5, 79, 475, 485, appreciation of words 67, 265,
283, 627, comments on style _e.g._ 22, 67, and pronunciation
210, 484, early diary differs in wording from the narrative
367; lapses into courtly Persian 445, 537, 539; (3)
+Grammatical details+:— relatives not used Add. Note, P. 167;
uses of "we" and "I" 104, 118; distinctions of meaning
expressed by Ar. and T. plurals _e.g._ 5, 80; uses of the
presumptive tense 37, 75, 162, 167, 577 (cf. Shaw's Grammar);
examples of idiom 29, 44, 66, 75, Add. Note, P. 167
(_gharīcha_); (4) +Varied information+ _see_ Preface _passim_;
(5) +Bābur's notes+: —Khwāja Maulānā-i-qāẓī 29 —Ibrāhīm Sārū
52 —Champion's portion 53 —Gūk-sarāī 63 —Fāzīl Tarkhān 133
—Aūz-kīnt 163 —Pass-words 169 —Multā-kundī 211 —Military terms
334 —Pīrī Beg 336 —Badakhshān 340 —Sl. Ma`sūd M. 382 —Campaign
of 910 AH. 382 —Daulat Khān 383 —_daqīqa_ 516 —_pol_ 517
—Mullā Apāq 526 —_kuroh_ (from the _Mubīn_) 630 —_tāsh_ weight
632;

IV. WORK DONE ON THE BOOK:— (1) +Turki Codices+ _see_ Preface,
Cap. III, Part II and Table xli; —(_a_) _Haidar Mīrzā's
Codex_—its importance Pr. xxxiv, xxxv, xxxviii, xli, xlii (No.
iv); (_b_) _Elphinstone Codex_—archetypes 405, Pr. xli, xlii,
xliii (No. v); its losses of pages 445; defacement 129, 325,
415, 548; Erskine's use of it Add. Note, P. 287; reliance on
it _in loco_ 1, 187, 445; preserves Humayun's attested notes
447-52-67, 510-14 and attributed notes 216, 494, 507 —also a
quatrain on Mughūls 140; "Rescue-passage" not in it App. D;
divergency from it in the Kasan Imprint _ib._ xiv; a former
owner 706; referred to in nn. on pp. 7, 10, 12, 14, 23-6-8,
31-6, 44-7-8, 60-4, 75, 88, 112-3, 133 (Shaibāq), 143-8, 154
(_dīm_), 159, 161-4-9; Preface xli, xlii, xliii (No. v),
xlvii; _cf._ JRAS _Notes infra_; (_c_) _Haidarabad Codex_,
published in Facsimile by the Gibb Trust, ed. A. S.
Beveridge—basis of the _B.N. in English_ 1, 187, 445, Preface
xxvii; appears a direct copy of Bābur's autograph Codex 47,
103, 515; contains (Jahangir's?) Rescue-passage App. D;
divergency of Kasan Imprint from it _ib._ xiv; referred to in
nn. on pp. 2, 8, 9, 10, 12, 133 (Shaibāq), 14, 18, 23 (careful
pointing clears away a doubt), 28, 31, 36, 40 (Bāghdād
corrected to Būghdā), 60-4, 75, 88, 132, 140-6-8, 153 (a
mistake?), 154 (_dīm_), 159, 164 (_sāīrt kīshī_), 165, 168,
177 (Pers. _dictum_), App. A, i (Akhsī); Preface xxvii, xxxiii
(title), xxxv, xli (Table), xlvi (No. x), xlvii;—[2950]

(2) +Persian work+:— (_a_) _Tabaqāt-i-bāburī_, described 445;
made known to Erskine 520; its deference to Bābur App. P,
lvii; shews a date 496; shews nature of an illness (B.'s) 446;
specifies drinking-days 447, 450; gives a useful pen-name 448;
Buhlūlpūr 454; of a gun 489; Varsak and Khwāstis 523; Naukar
or Tuka 525; Bābur points "Sīkrī" to read _shukrī_ 548; styles
him "Nawāb" 560 _etc._; describes a porpoise as _baḥrī_ App.
M, xlvii; helps as to "Luknūr" App. T, lxxiv; (_b_)
_Wāqi`āt-i-bāburī_ (Acts of Bābur), (_the first Pers. Trs.
1583_), Pāyanda-ḥasan _Mughūl_ of Ghaznī and Muḥ-qulī _Mughūl_
of Ḥiṣār—explicit 187, 198; useful variants 267, 624, 645; a
puzzling phrase 549, and passage 617; title Pr. xxxiii;
described liii (No. vi); (_c_) _Wāqi`āt-i-bāburī_ (Acts of
Bābur), (_the second Pers. Trs. 1589_), `Abdu'r-raḥīm M.
_Turkmān_—misleading glosses 2 n. 1, 3 n. 1; _tāsh_ misread
312 _etc._; verses doubtfully Babur's 312; a gloss unsupported
337; a difficult passage 617; a fine illustrated copy (B.M.
3714) 155, 298, 325; Erskine's account of its diction (quoted)
Pr. xliv (No. vii); on its title xxxiii;

(3) +Persian-English work+:—_The Memoirs of Baber_, Leyden and
Erskine (1826)—[_see nn. on pp. named_]; +Varia+:— Leyden's
slight collaboration 287, 367, 380, Add. Note, P. 287, Pr.
xlviii, Cap. iv, [L. and E. _Memoirs_]; two notes by Leyden
10, 219; not fully representative of Bābur's autobiography 2,
Cap. iv; advance in help (MSS. and other) since Erskine worked
347, 620-22, App. T, lxxiii; his own MSS. 680; Indian guidance
632, 661; dating agrees with Bābur's 629; misled by his
Persian source [_q.v._ 3 _etc._] and by a scribe's slip 544;
his help to Ilminski 1, 187, 326, Pr. lv; misleads by uniform
"Luknow" App. T; omissions 2, 632, 468, 559 (_important_); a
prayer reproduced in its words 316; quoted 715; —+questioned
readings+:—143, 223-5-9, 324-7, 333-7, 369, 400-16, Add. Note,
P. 416, 446-49-57-62-67 (shaving-passage), 478,
523-34-49-55-59-61, 608-9, 617-19-26-38-40-46-47; —[_Numerous
verbal explanations and other notes are reproduced as
Erskine's and each identified_];

(4) +Turki-English work+:—_The Bābur-nāma in English_
(_Memoirs of Babūr_), Annette S. Beveridge—_see_ Preface and
other contents of these volumes.

_Bābar_, Stanley Lane Poole—the Eight Stars 139; a misled note 468.

_Bābur und Abu'l-faẓl_, Teufel [_ZDMG, 1862_]—an opinion negatived
119;
useful critique on "Fragments" (_q.v._) Preface Cap. III, Part III
and App. D; Mubīn MS. used by Berézine 438;
Babur-nama title 653, Pr. xxxiii.

_Bahar-i-`ajam_ (Pers. Dict.) _see_ Dictionaries.

_Bāz-nāma_ (Book of Sport), Muḥibb-i-`alī _Barlās_—its author's
descent 276;
_l_ exchanged with _n_ (_cf._ _Luḥānī and Nuḥānī_) _ib._

Bélin M.—[_Journal Asiatique xvi, xvii_] 257-8, 271-82-92.

_Bengali Household Stories_, Macculoch—a sign of obedience 275.

Beveridge Annette S.—JRAS. Notes in referred to _in loco_:—MSS. of
the B.N. Turki text 1900;
Further Notes 1902,
Haidarabad Codex and all others 1905, 1906;
Elphinstone Codex 1907;
Material for a definitive text and account of Kehr's Codex and its
Persian alloy 1908;
Kehr's Latin Version of part of his source _i.e._
the _Wāqi`-nāma-i-pādshāhī_ (Bukhara Compilation _q.v._) 1908,
Klaproth's _Archiv_ 1909, and (expected) on the confused identity
of the Bukhārā Compilation with the _Bābur-nāma_ 1922;
—(2) Grounds for making a new translation Preface Cap. IV;
the mistaken identity of Kehr's source (_supra_) Cap. III[2951];
of the _Bābur-nāma_, Preface _passim_.

Beveridge Henry—(1) +Notes _in loco_+:—_tabalghū_ 11;
Bābā-i-kābulī 14;
Quintets 15, 288;
a mistake by Firishta 15;
Lotus-eaters 42;
Daulat-shāh 46; Ḥāfiẓ parodied 201;
Byron's _tambourgī_ 247;
Jāmī plagiarized 258;
_Khazīnatu'l-asfiyā_ quoted 211;
Tīmūr's burial-position 266;
syphilis 279;
an illegal marriage 329;
Bābur's satirical verse and Shaikh Zain 448;
_Z̤afar-nāma_ (?) quoted 485;
"_kaka_" 502;
Khw. Khusrau's couplet 503;
the name "Cintra" for an orange 512;
Tīmūr on Hindūstān 526;
fate of Ibrāhim _Lūdī's_ mother 543;
_ṯamghā_ 553;
a pun 571;
versus traced 571, 625-6;

Ibn Batūta quoted 591;
date of Bābur's visit to Lāhor from Āgra 604;
Khwānd-amīr 605;
Raḥīm-dād 608, 688;
Mahdi Khw. 704;
Scorpio and Libra 623;
Battle of Jām 635;
"bulky Oolak" 663;
Kashmīr expedition 693;
a poor MS. App. P, lv;
Shaikh Zain's deference _ib._ lvii;
—(2) +Translations+:
—(_a_) Akbar-nāma _q.v._ and Tūzūk-i-jahāngīrī _q.v._
—(_b_) revision of Persian _farmān_ 553, and the Kānwa
Letter-of-victory 559;
—(3) +Articles referred to+:
—(_a_) A.Q.R. 1899, _Bābur's Diamond, was it the Koh-i-nūr?_ 447;
1901, _An Afghān Legend_ 375, App. K;
1910, _Paper-mills of Samarkand_ 81;
1911, _Oriental Cross-bows_ 140, 142;
_Bābur's Dīwān_ (Rāmpūr MS.) 439;
_Some verses by the Emperor Bābur_ 439
—1915, Silhādī and the _Mirāt-i-sikandari_ 614;
—(_b_) Calcutta Review 1884, _the Patna Massacre_ 672;
—JASB. 1898, _Bāyazīd Bīyāt_ 691;
—1905, _The Emperor Bābur's legendary son_ 558;
—1884, _Authorship of the Dabistān_;
—1916, _Tārīkh-i-salāṯīn-i-afāghana_ 693;
—(_c_) JRAS. 1900, _On the word nihilam_ 45, 224
—1901, _Pers. MSS. in Indian Libraries_ 348
—1910, _On the word mutaiyīm_ 16, 275
—1913-14, _Coinage of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā_ App. H, xxvi
—1916, _Rashaḥāt-i-`ainu'l-ḥayāt_ 620;
—(4) +Other related articles+:—
(_a_) A. S. Q.—_Emperor Bābur and the Habību's-siyar_ 1906;
_Emp. B. and Khwānd-amīr_ 1909 (_2 parts_);
_Emp. B.'s opinion of India_ 1917;
_Attempt to poison B._ _ib._;
_Was `Abdu'r-raḥīm the translator of B.'s Mems. into Persian?_
1900 (_2 parts_);
(_b_) JRAS.—_The B.N. "Fragments"_ 1908;
_Date of Shāh Ḥasan Arghūn's death_ 1914;
_An obscure quatrain by Banā'i_ 1917;
_The Mongol title Tarkhān_ _ib._;
_Tarkhān and Tarquinius_ 1918[2952];
—(5) +His help+: _see_ Postscript of Thanks, Preface lxi.

The Bible—untrimmed beard 552;
moon-stroke 608.

_Bibliothèque Orientale_, B. d'Herbélot—(_see nn. on pp. named_),
`Umar Shaikh 13;
Sātūq-būghrā Khān 29; Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ 46;
Mātarīdiyah and Ash`ariyah Sects 75-6;
Ismā`īl _Khartank_ 76;
Naṣīru'd-dīn _Tūsī_ 79;
Nīl-āb 206;
"Qīzīl-bāsh" explained 630.

_Biographie Universelle_, Langlésart. _Babour_ xlv.

_Biographies of Ladies_ (_Sprenger's Cat._)—two women-poets 286.

_Birds of India_, T. C. Jerdon—partridge-tippets 496;
cries _ib._;
bustard 498;
_mānek_ 499;
_likhh_ (florican) App. N;
_kabg-i-darī_and _chīūrtīka_ (snow-cock) _ib._

"Blessed Ten" 562.

Blochmann H. (_JASB. 1873_)—Bābur's Mosque in Saṃbhal 687;
_see_ _Āyīn-i-akbari._

Blood-ransom 461;
retaliation 64, 102, 119, 194, 251-53, 424.

Boats—383-5-7-8, 407-10-22-23-54, 589, 652-4-5-6-8-9, 660, 662;
Bābur names his Ganges flotilla 663, 669, 670-1-4-9, 681-4;
pontoon bridge 599, 633.

Book-names—Akhsīkīt = Akhsī 9;
Banākat = Shāhrukhiya 76;
Chāch and Shāsh = Tāsh-kīnt 13, 76;
Gālīūr or Gālīwar = Gūālīār 605;
Nashaf and Nakhshab = Qarshī 84;
Nagarahāra = Nīng-nahār 207;
Tarāz = Yāngī 2.

Book-room—Ghāzī Khān _Lūdī's_ 460.

Books (_no titles_)—Exposition of the _Nafaḥāt_ 284;
On Jurisprudence 285,
—prosody 271,
—rhyme 285,
—riddles 289.

_Botany of the Afghan Delimitation Commission_, Aitchison—regional
grasses 222;
_qarqand_ = _sax-aol_(_?_) 223.

Brahminical thread 561.

Bridge of boats _see_ Boats.

_Buddhist Records_, S. Beal—Greater Udyāna-pūra App. E, xxi;
sugarcane in Lāmghān 203 (_where read Beal_).

Browne, Professor Edward Granville—the Ḥaidarābād Codex Facsimile,
Preface xlvi (No. x).

Building-stone—Samarkand 83,
Kābul 710,
Chandīrī 597,
Dūlpūr 606,
Gūālīār 608,
Bīāna 611.

"Bukhārā Compilation," known as "_Bābur-nāma_"
see _Wāqī`nāma-i-pādshāhī_.

Bullies of Marghīnān (Marghīlān) 7 (_where in line 1, add_, "They are
notorious in Mā-warā'u'n-nahr for their bullyings").

_Burhān-i-qāṯi`_ (Pers. Dict.) _see_ Dictionaries.

_Buried Cities of Khotan_, Sir M. Aurel Stein—Aq-būrā-rūd 4.

_Bū-stān_, Sa`dī—couplets quoted 139, 152, 626.

+Noticeable words+:—
(P.-Ar.-T.) _bāghāt_, _bāghlār_, _bāghchā_ and _begāt_, _beglār_ 5,
80, 478;
_bāghīsh_ 59, 69;
_bakhshī_ (in M. surgeon) 169;
_bāshlīqlār_ (commanders) 119;
_bātmān_ (a weight) 261;
_bātqāq_ (slough of despond) 31;
_bāī_ (rich man) 127;
_bāīrī_ (old servant) 30;
_bī_ = beg 127-8;
_bīldūrga_ 225;
_b:d-hindī_ = P. _sih-bandī_ (Byde Horse) 470;
_bīlāk_ 446;
_būghū-marāl_ 8, 10;
_būghdā_ (cutlass) 40;
_būlāk_ and _balūq_ 196, 17 and 221;
_būsh_ (bosh) 507.

_Cabool_ (Kabul), Sir Alex. Burns—(_see nn. on pp. named_);
wind and running sands 201, 215;
climate 204;
_kabg-i-darī_ 213;
Kohistān 214;
millet 215;
Bābur's Burial-garden 710.

Cadell, Jessie E.—quoted Preface xxvii.

Cadet-corps formed 28, App. H, xxvii.

Cairn _i.e._ "Bābur Pādshāh's Stone-heap" 446, Preface xxxvii.

Candles and candlesticks—none in Hind 518;
offensive substitutes _ib._

Canopus _see_ Suhail.

Capitals of Farghāna—Andijān 3,
Akhsi 10,
Aūz-kīnt 162.

Caravans—15, 202, 250, 331.

Carruthers, Mr. Douglas—help from App. B, vii.

Carving—Bābur no carver 304.

Caste-names—518.

Catalogues:—(_see nn. on pp. named_);
" Coins of the Shahs of Persia (B.M.), R. S. Poole—Bābur's surmised
vassal coin 355, App. H, xxx, Preface xxxv;
" Feronia Nursery Calcutta, Seth—Jack-fruit 506;
_sang-tarā_ orange 511;
" Library of the King of Oudh, A. Sprenger—Biographies of Ladies 286;
_Shāh u Darwesh_ 290;
Ahlī 290;
" Library of Tippoo Sulṯān, C. Stewart—_T̤abaqāt-i-naṣīrī_ 479;
" _Manuscrits Turcs de l'Institut des langues orientales_, W. D.
Smirnov—_Malfūzāt-i-tīmūri_ 653;
Bābur's writings _ib._
" Persian MSS. (B.M.), C. Rieu—Shāsh and Fanākat 2, 7;
Khw. Kamāl 8;
Akhsīkītī 9;
`Abdu'l-lāh _Barlās_ 51;
Saifī 111, 288;
Halwa-spring 260;
Niẓāmī 271;
Daulat-shah 274;
_Bāz-nāma_ 276;
Suhailī 277;
Marwārīd 278;
Amīr Ḥamza 280;
`Atā'u'l-lāh 282;
Taftazānī 283;
_Khamsatīn_ 288;
Husain _Nishapūrī_ 288;
Yūsuf of Farghāna 289;
Hilālī 290;
a scribe-poet 291;
_Sūlūku'l-mulūk_ 348;
Nawā'ī's Dīwāns arranged 419;
Histories of T̤ahmāsp 622;
_Ḥabibu's-siyar_ finished 687;
_Tārīkh-i-ṣalātīn-i-afāghāna_ 693, 701;
—Kasan Imprint misleads 259;
a questioned reading 266;
" Persian MSS. in the I.O. Library, H. Ethé—Khw. Hijrī 153;
Ḥusain _Nishapūrī_ 288;
_Shāh u Darwesh_ 290;
a scribe-poet 293[2953];
" Turki MS. in B.M., C. Rieu—the author of the _Sang-lākh_ App.
A, v;
the _Shaibānī-nāma_ 289.

Catamites 26, 42-5-9, 278, 396 (_cf._ 174 n.).

_Cathay and the way thither_, ed. Sir H. Yule (Hakluyt Society vol.
i, p. 20)—running-sands 215.

_Caubul_ (Kābul), Hon. Mountstewart Elphinstone—millet 215;
Judas-tree 216;
Indus ford (_Nīl-āb_) 378;
"Nangrahaur" App. E, xix.

"Chaghatāī Castles" 208.

Chaghatāī families—`Alī-sher _Nawā'ī_ a member of one, Preface xxxi.

Chaghatāī-Osmanisches Wörterbüch _see_ Dictionaries.

Chaghatāīsche Sprach-studien, H. Vambéry—(_mil._) pass-words
(_aūrān_) 219;
meaning of _gepanzert_ 221,
_bīldurga_ 225,
_sīghnāq_ App. Q, lxiv.

Champion's portion won and explained 53.

_Charikar_, T. C. Haughton—Kohistan of Kabul 214-5.

Charles XII's sobriquet Iron-head 14.

_Chār-ūlūs_ (Four hordes), Aulugh Beg Mirza, Preface xxx.

_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_—tambourgi 247.

_Chinese Turkistan_, P. W. Church—marāl 8.

Chīngīz-tūrā (_ordinances_) respected 155, 298.

_Chīnīūt_, D. G. Barkley [_JRAS._ 1899]—its position 380.

Chirkas sword 65.

Chishti order 666.

_Chrestomathie Turque_, Berézine—the _Mubīn_ quoted 438, 630.

Chronograms 85, 135, 152, 217, 344, 427, 575, 596.

Cider 83.

Circumcision 14, 69.

Coincidences 71, 123, 261, 686.

Coins—_ashrafī_ 446-60;
_dām_ 383;
_kipkī_ 296;
_sikka_ (coined money ?) 277;
_shāhrukhi_ 379-83, 400, 408, 417-46-78-9, 523;
_tang_ 641;
_tanka_ "black" (_i.e._ _copper_) 521,
"white" (_i.e._ _silver_) 338-9, 344, 446, 521-7, 641, App.
P, lvii;
"red and white" (money) 522;
Bābur's "vassal coins" 354-5-6, App. H, xxx.

Confections—_ma`jūn_:—used in excess 16;
gifts of 373;
parties on non-drinking-days 447;
eating of 377-83-84-88-93, 410-12-15-16-18, 420-2, 448-50, 580-8,
615-50-59-83;
_kamālī_ 373.

Congregational Prayer—unbroken attendance at 283.

Countermark [_Bih-būd_] on coins 277, App. H, xxv, xxvi, xxix.

_Cross-bow_, Sir W. F. Payne-Gallwey—archers' marks 34;
bow-shot distances 140;
what may apply to Bābur's _ẕarb-zan_ and _tūfang_ 667.

Cunningham, Maj.-Gen. Sir Alex. _see_ _Indian Eras_ and Reports on
Arch. Survey.

Customs—Musalmān scruples about burial-places 246;
the Champion's-portion 53;
circumambulation of tombs 54, 285, 301-5-6, 475,
and of the sick 701;
amongst combatants' wives 22, 268;
dipping 16 times in bathing 151;
levirate marriage 23;
mourning rites 32, 246, 293;
a nativity-feast 344;
nine a mystic number _see s.n._ nine;
an ordeal of virtue 211;
divining from sheep-blade-bones 233;
pillars of heads 232, _i.a._ 573-6;
rock-inscription 153;
signs of submission 53, 232-3, 248;
succession in Bengal 482-3 n. 5;
unveiling a bride 37;
gifts from those marrying 43, 400;
gifts by wives _q.v._

Cyclopædia of Archery _see_ _Kulliyatu'r-rāmī_.

Czar Vassili III—Bābur's embassy to, App. Q, lxiii.

+Noticeable words+:—_Chāchī_ 13;
_chāghīr_ 83, 298;
_chāpūk_, slash-face 68;
P. _chār-dara_ 80, 629;
_chaughān_ (polo) 26;
P. _chalma_ 624;
H. _chaukandī_ = Ar. _ghurfat_ and P. _chār-dara_ (?) 629-63;
_chāpkūn_ 324;
_chiqār_ (exit) 44;
_yinka-chīcha_ 616;
_chuhra-jīrga_ 50, 227,
App. H, xxvi-vii.

_Dabistān_, Mir Ẕū'l-fiqār `Alī'u'l-ḥusaini (_pen-name Mūbad_)—Nānak
founder of the Sikh religion 461;
Rādiyān sect 622;
[concerning the authorship of the book _see_ JRAS. H.B.'s art.
_q.v.s.n._].

Darwesh-life—soldiering abandoned for 262;
return to 583.

Dating by events:—Battle of the Goat-leap 16,
Dispersion of Aīrzīn 20,
Battle of Kānbāī 111-2 [_T.R. trs._ 119];
the dating of 935 AH. 605, App. S.

Defrémery C.—[_J. des Savans_ 1873], art. _Les Mémoires de Baber_
(P. de C.) 562.

_De Paris à Samarcande_, Madame Ujfalvy—(_see nn. on pp. named_);
Barā-koh 5, 6;
Samarkand 74-5;
_qarā yīghāch_ (hard-wood elm) 81;
paper-pulping mortars 81.

De Saçy, A. L. Silvestre (_Nat. et Ex._ 265, 285)—Ḥusain Shaikh Tīmūr
273 (_cf._ _Daulat-shah_ (Browne) 538-9);
date of Hilāli's death 290.

_Dialects of the Hindu-kush_, Col. J. Biddulph—Khowārī 211;
forms of "nine" App. E, xix.

Dictionaries, Lexicons, Vocabularies:—[_see nn. on pp. named_];
" of Antiquities, W. W. Smith—clepsydra 516;
" Arabic-English Lexicon, E. W. Lane—_akhmail_ 336;
" _Arabes, Supplèment aux Dictionnaires_, R. Dozy—_baḥri_ (a falcon)
App. M, xlvi;
" _Bahār-i-`ajam_ (Pers. Dict.), Rāī Tikchana Bahār—a sign of fear
232;
the Taftazānī Shaikhs of Islām 283;
" _Burhān-i-qāti`_ (Pers. Dict.), Muḥ. Ḥusain b.
Khalfa'u't-tabrīzī—_izāra_ (dado) 80;
" _Chaghatāī-osmanisches Wörterbuch_, Shaikh Sulaiman Effendi
(ed. Kunos)—_tunqiṯār_ 464;
_qūtān_ App. N, 1;
_sīghnāq_ App. Q, lxiv;
" English-Persian, A. N. Wollaston—a rare meaning 648;
" Hindustani-English, D. Forbes—changed name of an orange 511;
"needle-melting" citron 513;
great millet (maize?) 514;
names of days 516;
gongman _ib._;
" Hindustani-English, J. Taylor [ed. W. Hunter]—"sang-tara" and
"Cintra" App. O lii;
" of Islām, J. P. Hughes—turbans 15;
eating of food 44;
_maẕhab_ 463;
the Eight Paradises 646;
legal endowment 701;
" Oriental Biographical, T. W. Beale [_ed._ _Keene_]—Khw. Naṣīr
_Tūsī_ 79;
" of Oriental Quotations, C. Field—a common couplet 22;
" Persian-English, F. Steingass—176, 202, 286, (_metres_) 514, 527,
630;
_qīzil-bāsh_ 643;
" Persico-Latinum Lexicon, I. A. Vullers—_shash-par_ 160;
_kaka_ 502;
_gharau_ 514;
_rād_ (_whence Rādagān_) 622;
" Pushtū-English, H. J. Raverty—Multakund 211;
" _Sang-lākh_ (Turki-Persian), Muḥ. Mahdi Khān—described App. B, v;
_kharpala_ (the "Qarshi birdie") _ib._;
contains verses entered as by Bābur 439;
" Sanscrit-Bengali-English, Haughton—a stork 499;
gula-prawn 502;
" of Towns (_Majama`u'l-buldān_), Yāqūt—"Akhsīkīs̤" 9, 10;
" _Turc Orientale_, A. Pavet de Courteille—Bābur's verses quoted
439, 526;
a wag-tail 501;
a meaning 626;
Bābur's script App. Q, lxiii;
" Turki Vocabulary, R. B. Shaw—_kūk-būrā_ (a game) 39;
_qūrūgh_, reserved land 81;
_aūpchīnlīk_, 4 horse-shoes and their nails 176;
_chārūq_, brogues, and _chāpān_, long coat 187;
_qālpāq_, felt wide-awake 258;
_qūsh-begi_, a Court official 278;
_shaghāwal_ ib. 463;
_jīrān_, a deer 491;
_qīn_, scabbard 503;
_akhta-begi_, master-gelder 538;
_būljār_, a rendezvous _etc._ 592;
—Part II. J. Scully—_qodan_, water-hen 224;
_kīklīk_ (_caccabis_, _chikūr_) 496;
_`aqqa_, magpie 501;
_qīrīch_, swift 501;
_būīā_, a plant 505;
_amān-qarā_ (perhaps maize) 504;
_aīrkāk-qūmūsh_, male-reed 514.

Diseases and accidents:—(_a_) +Babur's+ saddle turns 147;
sciatica 253-4;
boils 254, 657-60;
dislocated wrist 409-13-20;
tooth breaks 424;
ear-ache 310, 601-8-15;
fall of river bank 655;
fall of tent 678;
wounds of head 150-167,
—leg 167-9,
—arm-pit 176;
+his illnesses+:—unspecified (923) 365;
catarrhal discharge (_rezāndalīk_) 446-49-51;
fever (903 AH.) 88-9, (911) 247, (925) 399 to 401, (934) 585-6-8,
603-4, (935) 619-20, (937) 702-3-5;
(_b_) +Of others+:—child-birth 36;
small-pox 48;
"violent illness" 45;
frost-bite 116, 311;
cold 151;
ulcerated hand 125;
siphylis 279;
pestilence 524;
paralysis 620;
malarial fever 4, 8;
fever 33, 246.

Diversity of place-names through trs. _see_ (_e.g._) Qīzīl = Surkh,
Safed = Spīn.

Dividing line of the Afghāns and Khurāsān 200.

Divorces 267-8, 329.

_Dīwān-i Bābur Pādshāh_, [_ed. Sir E. D. Ross_]—not Bābur's earliest
collection 438-9, 447;
appears referred to 642;
verses suiting his moods and deeds 604, 626-44, 705;
verses of the Dīwān in the B.N. 526-75-84-89;
the _Wālidiyyah-risala_ and B.'s new ruler 643;
Elizabethan conceits 645;
concerning the Rāmpūr MS. App. Q, (illustration); 585; 635.

_Dīwān-i Khwāja Ḥāfiẓ_ [_ed. H. Brockhaus, trs. W. Clarke_]—a couplet
411.

_Dīwān-i Nūru'd-dīn `Abdu'r-raḥmān Jāmī_—a quatrain plagiarized 257.

Dīwān-writers mentioned by Bābur—Āhī 289;
Ahlī 290;
`Alī-sher _Nawā'ī_ (Pers.) 272;
Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ (_Turkī_) 259;
Kāmī 290;
Saifī 288;
Suhailī 277;
Maḥmūd _Barlās_ 51;
Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_ 46.

Domestic animals—ass 144;
buffalo 231, 393, 454, 490;
camel:—_khachar_ 74, 249,
_tīwa_ 232-5, 240, 376-91;
camels counted 391;
flesh eaten 251;
cost of keep 489;
gift of 382;
—cattle 150, 231-4-5-8, 333-96, 454;
symbol of submission 232;
—dog 144, 224;
elephant _s.n._ Nat. Hist.;
horse _see s.n._;
mule 194, 338;
sheep 50-5, 71, 228, 234-5-8-9, 249-50, 394;
swine 211;
yāk 55, 490 (here _baḥrī-qūtās_) App. M;
—fowls 82, 213;
goose 82;
pigeon 13, 259, 401.

Domestic appliances—china 80, 195, 407;
festal ornament 304, App. I;
drinking cups 489, 298 and 552;
fuel 223, 311;
goatskins 371, 421;
gong 515;
knife 44;
lamp 518;
litter 254 and 401, 331 n. 3, 268;
rope 509;
spoon 44, 73 n. 1, 407, 509;
table-cloth 44, 132;
tooth-pick 407;
torch 213-34, 387-8, 518.

Dreams—Bābur's 132, (attributed) 132 n. 2, App. D, xi;
another's App. D, xii.

Dress, articles of—_bāsh-ayāq_ = _sar-u-pā_ (head to foot) _i.a._
159, 393;
bathing-cloth (_fūṯa_) 275, 527;
brogues (_chārūq_) 187;
caps:—black lambskin (_qarā-qūzī būrk_) 258,
ermine (_ās būrk_) 150,
_Mughūl būrk_ 15, 179;
_muftūl_ or _mūftūnlūq Mughūl būrk_ 159;
helm-cap (_dūwulgha būrk_) 167;
—_chār-qab_ 304, 527;
clasp (_qulāb_) 156;
girdle (_tak-bund_) 156, (_bīl-bāgh_ lit. waist-band) 298,
(_kamr-bund_) 642;
cymar (_khimār_) 561;
coats and tunics:—_jāma_ 652,
surtout (_jība_) 303, 632,
long coat (_chāpān_) 187,
sheep-skin coat (_postīn_) 181;
short tunic (_nīmcha_) 652;
tunic and coat (_tūn_) 14, 51, 159, 166, 371, 400;
clothes-in-wear (_artmāq_, _artmāq_) 339;
torque (_ṯauq_) 561;
head-wear (_bāshlīq_) 632;
_lung_ (_dhoti_) 519;
rain-cloak (_kīpīng_) 389;
feather tippet 496;
turban 14, 33, 101, 258;
turban-aigrette 225, 325;
wide-awake (_qālpāq_);
vest (_kūnglāk_) 171.

Drums—nagaret 144, 155, 250, 337, 369, 628;
of departure 235, morning 392, saddle 163-4;
drumming sound [at the Running Sands] 315;
dismissal of 595;
tambour-player 247.

_Durch Asien's Wüsten_, Sven Hedin—Farghāna wind 9.

Dynasties—Bāhmani 482;
Qīlīch 29;
Tūghlūq 451;
Shaibānī's destruction of 39;
"Mughūl
Dynasty" a misnomer in Hind 158 (_see s.nn. Turk and Mughūl_).

+Noticeable words:+—
_dābān_, a difficult defile;
_dādā_ 157 (_see ṯaghāī_);
Ar. _daur_, warp of a bow, App. C;
_dīm_ [_T root de_, _telling_] = P. _san_, numbering 154[2954], 161,
468, Add. Note, P. 54.

Ear-rings 510 (_where add (in l. 5) an omitted passage entered in App.
O, liv_).

_Economic Products of India_, Watts—date-plum 210;
fish-drugs 226;
oranges var. 512.

Editors mentioned _in loco_—A. S. Beveridge, G. B.'s _Humāyūn-nāma_,
and Fac-simile of the Ḥaidarābād Codex;
H. Brockhaus, _Die Lieder des Hafis_;
E. G. Browne, _Taẕkirātu'sh-shu`arā_ (Memoirs of Poets),
_Tārīkh-i-guzīda_ (Select History);
C. M. Fræhn, _Shajarat-i Turk_ (Genealogical Tree of the Turk);
N. I. Ilminski, _Bāber-nāma_ (Kasan Imprint);
I. Kūnos, Shaikh Sulaimān _Effendī's_ Vocabulary;
D. C. Phillott, _Taẕkirāt-i T̤ahmāsp_;
E. D. Ross, _Bābur's Dīwān_ (Rāmpūr MS.), and Three Turkī MSS. from
Kashghar;
C. Schafer, _Siyāsat-nāma_;
R. C. Temple, _Peter Munday's Travels_;
F. Veliaminof-Zernov, _Abūshqa_;
H. Yule, Wood's _Journey_.

_Einblicke in das Farghana Thal_—A. I. v. Middendorf—winds 9.

Elphinstone, Hon. M.—his Codex _see s.n. Bābur-nāma_.

Embassy from Bābur to Moscow App. Q, lxiii.

_Embassy to Timur_, Ruy Gonsalves di Clavigo (_trs. Sir C.
Markham_)—Hindustan the Less 46;
kneeling in greeting 54;
Samarkand 74-5-8;
Kesh 83.

_Encyclopædia Britannica_—range of temperature 204;
Farīdu'd-dīn _`At̤t̤ār_ 271;
rhinohorns 408;
maize when first in Asia 509.

_Encyclopædia of Islām_—Réné Basset's art. Al-buṣīrī 620.

Erskine William—Preface xxxiii, xliii-iv-viii-ix, Cap. IV,
[_see Memoirs of Baber and History of India_].

_Essays_, Lord Bacon—Ismā`īl _Ṣafawī's_ personal beauty 441.

Etiquette and decorum—well-mannered 45, 271-3-6, 303;
knees not crossed 33;
feet hidden 34;
deference to elders 303;
epistolary 332;
farewell 330;
—+Interviews+:—kneeling 61-9, 301, 408;
looking one another in the eyes (_i.a._) 54, 64;
embrace 160;
+—Meetings+:—The Khāns with Bābur 54, 159, 169;
the two Khāns 160;
Tīmūriya reception 59;
Bābur and the Bāī-qarā Mīrzās 297-8-9, and elder Begims 301-97;
his reception of Khusrau Shāh 193,
Daulat Khān 459,
Naṣrat Shāh's envoy 640-1.

Exemplars of Bābur—Preface, Cap. I.

_Expédition scientifique Française_, C. E. Ujfalvy—_yīghāch_
(_measure_) 4;
Aūsh (Ūsh) 5;
Barā-koh 5;
Bābur's serviceable "Farsī-gūī" 7;
misreading (?) App. A, ii;
distances near old Akhsī _ib._ v;
Samarkand 74;
Āb-burdan 152.

_Explorations in Turkistan_, R. Pumpelly—Āq-būrā-rūd (_Huntingdon's
art._) 5;
Akhsī App. A, i, v.

_Fair at Sakhī-sarwār_, Michael Macauliffe—238.

_Famous Monuments of Central India_, Sir Lepel H. Griffin—Gūālīār 605.

_Fān-valley_, W. R. Rickmers—[_JRGS. 1907_], Sara-tāq-dābān 129;
Āb-burdan 152.

_Farhang-i-aẕfarī_ [_Turki-Pers. Dict._] _nihilam_ explained 45.

_Fauna of British India_, Oates and Blanford—flying-squirrel and
snow-cock 213 nn. 5, 6, 7;
various birds 495, 497, 501.

Festivals—Bābur's Rāmẓān rule 584;
Īd-i-fiṯr 66, 235, 311, 351, 410, 584, 683, 689;
Īd-i-qurb-ān 154;
Nū-roz 236;
approximation of Nū-roz and Īd-i-fiṯr 236.

Fifth-share (_Khams_) 324.

Five-days' World 50, 128, 328.

_Flora Indica_, W. Roxburgh—spikenard 392;
_mahuwā_ 505;
_gūlar_ 508;
_chirūnji_ _ib._;
_kīūrā_ 514.

"Florio Beg _Beneveni_", Secretary to a Russian Mission, Preface xliv.

Folk-lore—test of a dead woman's virtue 212;
blizzard-raising spring 219;
"commerce with the Spheres" 275;
eye-bewitchment 664;
omen as to sex of an unborn babe App. L;
succession customs 482.

Food (_ex. birds and fruits_)—bread 148 (_cf. A.N. trs. i, 421 for
spiced bread, also Memoirs p. 144 n._);
brochettes (_kabāb_) 148, 415;
betel 440;
camel-flesh 493;
carrots 542;
cheese 394;
meat cold 411;
date-palm cheese 508;
dried meat 542;
fritters 541;
haggis 506;
hare 542;
honey 203, 409, 440;
lotus seed 660;
mango preserve 440;
millet porridge 181;
pistachio nuts 508 (cf. _s.n._ Nat. Hist.).

_A Frontier Campaign_, Lord Fincastle—_khahr_ = _shahr_ 367;
Katgola and Panj-kūra 374.

Frontier-posts 213.

Games and amusements—acrobats 635;
cards 584;
chess 38, 275-84-87;
dancing 276-99, 303;
dancing-girls 522, 634;
dice 16, 275-8;
draughts 16, 278;
feats of archery _q.v._;
fights of cocks 259, rams 259, elephants 631, camels 631;
improvisation and recitation of verse 16, 26, Preface xxx;
_kūk-būrā_ 39;
leap-frog 26;
pigeon-flying 13, 259;
polo (_chaughān_) 26;
wrestling 292, 660-83, Index I. _s. nn._ Dost-i-yāsīn, Ṣādīq;
hawking and fowling _see s.n._

Gardens—+Andijān+:—Chār-bāgh 29,
Ḥāfiẓ Beg's 108,
Birds' 168,
Aūsh 5,
Asfara 7,
Kāsān 10;
Tāshkīnt:—Ḥaidar Kūkūl-dāsh's 54,
Poplar 145, 146;
+Samarkand+:—Heart-expanding 78, 82,
New 62, 138,
North, Paradise, Plane-tree 78,
Plain's 92,
Porcelain, World-picture 78,
Darwesh Tarkhān's 80, 81;
+Kābul+:—Almshouse 315,
Avenue 647,
Bābur's Burial-garden 709 _see_ illustrations,
Chār-bāgh 249-51-54, 346-97-98, 416-7-8,
Ḥaidar _Tāqī's_ 198, 401,
Khalīfa's 315,
Little 198,
Paradise 315-6-7,
Plane-tree 401, 418,
Private 346-97,
Rendezvous (?) 346,
Violet 395, 415-7;
+Koh-dāman+:—Istālif 216-7, 398, 416,
New Year's 246, Royal 418;
+Nīng-nahār+:—447,
Adīnapūr 207 and n. 5,
Chār-bāgh, Fidelity 207 n. 5, 208, 394, 409, 414-21-22, 443-7;
Qarā-tu 395;
+Herāt+:—`Alī-sher's 305,
Marigold, Town, White 306, Raven's 134, 306;
+Hindustan+:—_Ṣafā_ (purity) 381, 665,
(Agra), Chār-bāgh, Eight-paradises 531-3-7, 543-4, 548, 616-34-86,
Gold-scattering 640-41, 689 n. 3, *708,
Garden of Rest 709,
(+Dūlpūr+) Chār-bāgh 603-6-15,
Lotus 639, (on the Gagar) 465,
(Sīkrī) 581-4,
(+Gūālīār+) 607-10-12-13-14.

Gardening _see_ "Indian" and "Manual".

The Gate—Lordship in 24;
Bābur's 26, 32;
the place of judgment 24, 197, 259;
Gate-house 43;
between-the-doors 24, 100, 133;
waiting in 277;
gate-ward post 166.

_Gates of India_, Sir T. H. Holdich—a Central Asian claim to Greek
descent 22;
headwaters in Koh-i-baba 216;
a route 310.

Gazetteers:—[_see nn. on pp. named_];

" of India [ed. 1908-9]—Observatories 79;
Nīl-āb 206; Gūr-khattri 230;
Pīr Kānū 238;
Sawātī 378;
Parhāla 387;
Nagarahāra App. E, xvii, xx (Bellew);
the Gagar (Kakar, Ghagghar) 465;
Bāgar 573;
Chandawār, Chandwār 581-9, 643;
Lukhnūr 582;
Sarwān 587;
Sikandra Rao _ib._;
Gūālīār 605, 610, 611;
Parsarūr 684;—Gujūr 250;
Kakar 386;
Luḥānī (var.) 455;
Mundāhir 700;
—brackish streams 384;
a ruined range 486;
a hunting-ground (Bārī) 509;
Jūna(h)pūr = Junpūr 676;
—tree squirrel 492;
frogs 503;
_yāk_ App. M, xlvii.

District Gs. of India:—Allahabad, (H. G. Neville), 653;
`Azamgarh, ("), 680;
Ballia, ("), 664, 667;
Etawa, (Drake-Brockmann), 644 nn. 2, 6;
Fathpur, (H. G. Neville), 651;
Fyzabad, (") 656, App. U;
Ghazipur, (Drake-Brockmann), 658;
Gualiar, C. E. Luard, 590-4-7, 605-9, 610-12-13-14;
Gurgaon, (F. Cunningham), 578-80;
Jihlam, ("), 452, 461;
Mainpuri, (E. R. Neave), 643-4;
Rawalpindi, (F. A. Robertson), 452;
Saran, (L. L. S. O'Malley), 664;
Shahabad (D. B. Allen), 664;
Sultanpur, (H. G. Neville), 683;
Ulwar, Alwar (P. W. Powlett), 557-8.

Gazetteers of the Province of Oude, App. T, lxxv, lxxvi.

" of the Turkistan Region, Col. L. F. Kostenko
—+Farghāna:+—passes 2;
fruits 3;
cooking recipe 4;
fever 4;
running-waters 5;
Āq-būrā-rūd 5;
Khujand 7, 8;
Mogol-tau 8;
Sang-ferry 176;
—+Samarkand:+—74;
extent of town 75, 145;
Kohīk-sū 76;
paper-making 81;
Āb-burdan 15;
three passes 83, 90, 129;
Lake Iskandar 129;
—distances 4, 6, 75, 84;
ravines App. A, ii;
various _ib._ v;
rapid riding 25;
_kūk-būrā_ 37;
Sārts and their tongues 6, 7;
Central Asian claim to Greek descent 22.

_Géographie_, Abū'l-feda [_trs. Reinaud_]—land cultivated by the
Zar-afshān (Kohik) 76;
Naṣīr _Tūsī_ 79;
names of Qarshī 84.

_Geography and History of Bengal_, H. Blochmann—Habshi
succession-customs 452.

" _of the Qandahār Inscription_, T. Beames [JRAS. 1898]—revision
incomplete App. T. xxxiv.

" _Oriental_ [_Ashkālu'l-bilād_] Ibn Ḥauqāl,
[_trs. Ouseley_]—absorption of the Sīr 3;
"Banakas̤" 9;
Akhsī App. A, ii, iii;
Kohik irrigation 76;
Samarkand Gates 77;
Qarshi names 84.

Geographical unit, [_village and its cultivated land_] 3.

_Geschichte von schönen Redekünste Persiens_, Freiherr v.
Hammer-Purgstall—Hilālī 290;
_Shāh u Darwesh_ 290;
Sām Mīrzā's jeer 648.

_Ghiyāsu'l-lughāt_ (Pers. Dict.), Muḥ. Ghiyāsu'd-dīn
_Rāmpūrī_—_kardi_-peach 504.

Ghulām-i-muḥammad (_collaborator with Raverty_)—Nijr-au 213;
Nīl-āb 206;
Bābur's frontier-posts 213;
a route 208.

Gibb, E. J. Wilkinson, Memorial Trust—Preface xlvii.

_Glossary of Terms_, H. H. Wilson—_ser_ (_sīr_)-measure 517;
_tanāb_-measure 630.

_The Golden Bough_, T. G. Frazer—a succession custom 482.

_Goswara Inscription_, Kittoe and Kielhorn [_I.A. 1888_]—App. E,
xviii-ix, xxii.

Grant, Mr. Ogilvie—his help App. B, vii.

_Great Diamonds of the World_, E. W. Streeter—its Koh-i-nūr account
incomplete 477.

Greek descent, 22, 341.

Guest-begs 141, 227.

Gul-badan Begīm (_Lady Rosebody_) _see_ H. N.

_Gulistān_, Sa`dī [_trs. Eastwick_]—quoted 42, 152-8, 190, 313.

_Gulzār-i-Bihār_, Ajodhya Prasad—rulers in Tirhut and Darbanga App.
P, lvii;
varied by Sir G. A. Grierson (_I. A._ 1885) _ib._ n. 1.

+Noticeable words:+—
P. _gosha_, bow-tip and notch App. C;
P. _gosha-gīr_, an archer's repairing-tool 160-6, App. C, =
_chaprās_ and _kadāng_; P. _ghūnchachī_ 17.

_Ḥabību's-siyar_, Khwānd-amīr—[_see nn. on pp. named_];
relations with the _Bābur-nāma_ 57, 127, 256, 328;
value as a source 70, 348, 426;
not used for _The Memoirs_ 347;
used by Bābur 11, 256-91;
completion of 687;
—Kinsmen of Bābur 13,[2955] 18, 34-5, 46-8, 50, 61, 90, 111, 127;
—Bābur 29, 147, 184, 297, 354-7, 432-7, 704;
—various persons 25, 38, 47, 50-4-8, 72, 98, 111, 128, 249, 396;
[Bih-būd] 227 and App. H, xxvi, 579, 621;
_varia_ 133, 244-96, 327-8-9, 463 (_n. where read Tamarisk_), 469,
617-22;
—Herāt 305;
Chār-shaṃba 71;
_kīsāk_ 66;
Niẕāmī 85 (_where in n. read l. 2_), Ḥ.S. iii, 44, 167.

_Haft Iqlīm_, Amīn Aḥmad _Rāzī_—celebrities of Chīrkh 217.

Hand-book to Dihli, H. J. Keene—places visited by Bābur 475.

" to Bengal, Murray's—observatories 79;
Dihli 475, 704.

" to the Panj-āb, Murray's—Qandahār Inscription App. J, xxxiii.

Hawking and fowling—experts in 31-8, 40-5, 67, 270-3-6;
birds with dogs 224;
a story 254;
lost hawk 394;
Bābur's gift of a goshawk (_qārchīgha_) 385;
Aḥmad _Mīrān-shāhī_ and goshawks 34, Add. Note, P. 34.

Herāt's high standard of proficiency 283, Preface xxx;
_see_ Index II.

_Herat, On the city of_, Col. C. E. Yule [_JASB. 1887_]—280, 305-6.

" B. de Meynard (J. A. xvi)—257, 305-6-7, 326.

_Hidāyat_, Burhānu'd-dīn `Alī _Qīlīch_ (_trs. C. Hamilton_)—its
author's birth-place 7, 76;
held in honour 76;
his descendant 29;
_Khams_, the Fifth 324.

_Hidāyatu'r-rāmī_ (The Archer's Guide), Amīnu'd-dīn (T. O. MS.
2768)—_nāwak_ 142;
_gosha-gīr_ App. C, viii;
(_cf._ _AQR. 1911_, _H.B.'s art. Oriental Cross-bows_).

_High Tartary_, R. Shaw—_tanga_, (_coin_) App. P, lvii.

Hindū-shāhī rulers in Kābul 200.

Hindustani uses of "Khurāsān" 202 and other words 455-88-91-92-99
(_where for yak-rang read bak-ding_);
pronunciation 380, 484.

Hinks, Mr. A. E. (_R.G.S._), estimate of distance from Kishm to
Qandahār 621.

_Histoire de Chingiz Khan_, F. Pétis de la Croix, the elder—Gūk-sarāī
63, Ascension Stone 77.

_Histoire du Khanat de Khokand_, L. Cahun—Farghāna winds 9.

" _du Khanat de Khokand_, Gen. V. R. Nalivkine—Sarts 6;
Akhsī App. A, i, iv, v;
tradition of Bābur's abandoned child 358.

" _de Timur Beg_, F. Pétis de la Croix, the younger—Samarkand Gates
and walls 77 (_see Z̤afar-nāma_).

_Historical Sketches_, Col. Mark Wilks—_wulsa_ (flight _en masse_)
486-7 (_where for "ūlwash" read ūlwan_);
Add. Notes, P. 487.

Histories:—(_see nn. on pp. named_).

" of Bukhara, A. Vambéry—descent of chiefs 244.

" of Gujrāt, E. C. Bayley trs. _see Mirāt_.

" of India, Elliott and Dowson—Tarkhāns 31 (_where add (n. 4)
references vol. i, 300, 320-1, 498_);
Farmūlis 456, 675;
Bugīāls 452;
_varia_ 274, 440-77, 652-9, 693;
places 191, 219, 457, 582, 699;
earthquake 247;
Mīān = Shaikh 457;
a B. N. source 348, 428-39, 621;
_The Malfūzāt-i-tīmūrī_ 653;
supers-session of B.'s sons proposed 703.

" of India, Baber, W. Erskine—148-94, 247, 332-8, 343-6, 361, 440-78,
520-2, 562, 651, 702;
gunpowder 369;
coins and Revenue List 446-78, 520-22, 627, App. P, lv;
value of the book 428.

" of Musical Sounds, C. Carus-Wilson—215.

" of Ottoman Poetry, E. J. Gibbs—double meaning in composition App.
Q, lxiv.

_Hobson-Jobson_, Sir H. Yule (_ed. Crookes_)—(_see nn. on pp.
named_), Byde (_var._) Horse 470;
the Koh-i-nūr 477;
black-buck 491;
gynee-cow 492;
partridge cries 496;
rock-pigeon (bāghrī-qarā?) 498;
coucal 500;
_koel_ 501;
mango 503;
plantain 504;
"mohwa" 505;
_kīshmīsh_ 505;
_jambū_ 506;
jack-fruit 506;
toddy 509;
an orange 511;
shoe-flower 513;
ghurry (clepsydra) 516;
_ser_ (measure) 517;
"bowly" (_baoli_) 533;
"talookdār" 621;
"cuscuss"-grass 631;
"moonaul" (monal) App. N, xlix;
"choki" App. V, lxxxi.

Holy War—against Kāfiristān 46;
Bābur's against Sangā 547 _et seq._ and Chandīrī 589;
references to 579-83, 637.

Horse-accoutrement—Mughūl 160;
mail 140-67, 380;
saddle-bags 338.

Horses—_tīpūchāqs_;—a breeder of 38;
mentioned 235, 303 and 336 (grey), 383 (almond-coloured), 401,
captured at Qandahār 338;
—Kābul horse-trade 202;
horses bred for sale 235;
how fed in a siege 145;
eaten on a journey 148;
swim the Zarafshān in mail 140;
in snow 253, 308-11;
single-file in snow 314;
women's use of during a battle 268;
murrians 31;
abandoned 239, 379;
invalided to Kābul 376-8;
trodden down by elephants 457;
restorative treatment 666;
—tribute in 228, _etc._;
raided by Bābur 313;
galloping-ground for 222;
steps counted to estimate a distance 666;
—_qūsh-āt_, a change-horse led by a rider 453;
corn and grass for 186, 221-2-3, 238; 311, 394;
unfit grass 222;
anatomical similarity with the rhinoceros 490.

Hot-bath, _ḥammān_—Samarkand 78,
Akhsī 173,
Kābul 346,
Bābur finds none in Hindūstān 518,
constructs in Agra, 532, 634,
in Dūlpūr 614, 639.

Households and families—various 32, 123, 125-9, 141;
Bābur's sent to him 71-2, 151-3;
(B.'s) 184, 306;
marching for Kābul 189, 191-7;
Mughūls' come to B.'s army 192-4;
B. safeguards 199, 460-1;
driven like sheep 242 (2);
Bāī-qarās desert 327;
Shaibānī anxious about 135, 343;
B.'s come to Hind 645-6, 650-7-8, 665-75-89;
his wives and children 711-4.

Houses—high 221,
windowed 201;
in Chandīrī 597;
in Gūālīār 608.

Huma, a fabulous bird 26.

Hunting:—circle (_jīrga_) 114, 325, 424-50, 657;
Babur's hunting 296, 602, 707.

_Humāyūn-nāma_, Bāyazīd Bīyāt—a commanded book 691.

_Humāyūn-nāma_, Gul-badan Begīm—(_trs. and ed. A. S. Beveridge_)—[_see
nn. on pp. named_];
Adik Sl. 23;
a betrothal 48;
Khān-zāda 147;
Māh-chūchūk 199, 342;
Apāq B. 301;
Mahdī Khw. 381, 688, 703-4, 579;
`Asas (1) 387, (2) 552;
Māmā Atūn 148, 407;
various men 408 and 640, 526;
a begīm's manly pursuits 263;
Māhim B. 344, 686;
Mirzā Khān 433 (_where, l. 2 fr. ft. read grand-"mother"_);
Bābur's sons 436, App. J, xxxv, 619, App. L, xliii, 545;
B.'s daughters 441, 522, 708, 713;
Bābur's wounds 167, 524, 616, 630;
his self-devotion 701, (illustration 702, Preface xxxii;)
his death 708-9;
removal of body to Kābul 709;
—references to the H.N. 347, 689, 691-4, Pref. xxviii;
its Biographical App. 13, 705, 711.

Ibn Batuta _see_ Travels.

" Ḥauqāl _see_ Geography.

_Illustrated London News_—fortress gun and stone ammunition 595;
rafts 673.

_Indian Eras_, Sir Alex. Cunningham—intercalary months 515;
discrepant dates App. S, lxxi.

_Indian Forest Trees_, D. Brandis—[_see nn. on pp. named_],
date-plum 210;
cypress 222;
weeping-willow App. I, xxxii;
"mohwa" 505;
bullace-plum 507;
orange-like fruits 510;
ebony-tree 585.

_Indian Hand-book of Gardening_, G. T. F. Speede—_sinjid_ (jujube) 203;
_amlūk_ (date-plum) 210;
_saṃbal_ (spikenard) 392;
"keeras" (cherry) 501;
_kamrak_ (_averrhoa carambola_) 506;
_sang-tāra_ (orange) 511;
under-ground jack-fruit App. O, lii.

Inscriptions—Bābur's atĀb-burdan 152,
Bād-i-pīch pass 343,
Qandahār App. T;
—on Ajodhya Mosque App. U;
on B.'s tomb 710.

_Inscriptions de Caboul_, J. Darmesteter [_J.A. 1888_]—in Bābur's
Burial-garden 710.

Intercession—Bābur's, through Aḥrārī 620;
through Imām `Alī, 702.

"Islam"'s foes killed 370;
its army 564.

Ivory 489.

Jogis—at Gūr-khattrī 230.

_Journal of Travel_, W. Griffiths—red apple 507;
_cicadæ_ s. of Ghazni App. N, l.

_Journey from Bengal to England_, G. Forster—division of climates
229 (_where for "Travels" read Journey_).

_Journey to the Sources of the Oxus_, J. Wood (_ed. Yule_)—Kābul 199;
Running-sands 201, 215;
Hindu-kush passes (_Yule's Introduction_) 204;
dun sheep 224;
Nagarahāra regions App. E, xxiii.

_Journeys in Biluchistan, Afghanistan and the Panj-ab_,
E. Masson—(_see nn. on pp. named_), Kābul 199, 200, 201,
(fruits) 203-4;
Shibr 215;
Panjhīr 205;
Nīl-āb (in Ghūr-bund) 216;
Adīnapūr 207;
Chaghatāī castles 208;
a meaning of "Lām" 210;
Running-sands 215;
Judas-tree 216;
—places 405, 412-17-45, 647;
routes 231, 417;
sign of submission 232;
Nagarahāra App. E, xvii;
"Babur Padshah's stone-heap" (cairn) 416;
Preface p. xxxviii.

_Journey to India overland_, A. Conolly—Kābul 199;
_rawāj_ (rhubarb) 203.

Kabul _see_ "Cabool" and "Caubul".

"Kāfir"—uses of the word 481-3; 518, 577.

_Kafirs of the Hindu-kush_, Robertson—their wines 212.

_Kaiser Akbar_, Count F. v. Noer (_trs. A. S. Beveridge_)—finance
reform 282.

Kehr, Dr. G. J. [_scribe of the Pet. F. O. School Codex of the
"Bukhārā Bābur-nāma"_] see _Wāqi`-nāma-i-pādshāhī_.

The _Khamsatīn_ (Two Quintets)—a reader of 15;
imitated 288.

_Khazīnatu'l-asfiyā_ [Treasury of Saints], Ghulām-i-sarwār—Khwājakī
Khw. 67;
Mīr Sayyid `Alī _Ḥamadānī's_ grave 211;
Pīr Kānū 238;
Jālalu'd-dīn _Pūrānī_ 306;
Sharafu'd-dīn _Munīrī_ 666.

_Khuṯba_—read disloyally 52, 328;
Bābur's compact 354-6;
read in Dihli for him 476.

The (Koh-i-nūr) diamond 477, 702.

Klaproth Jules—Preface xxxix, xlvii;
[_see_ _Archiv_ and _Mémoires relatifs etc._].

_Kulliyatu'r-rāmī_ (Cyclopædia of Archery), Muḥ. Budhā'ī—_nāwak_ 142;
_gosha-gīr_ App. C, viii;
(_cf. Oriental Cross-bows, H.B. AQR. 1911_).

+Noticeable words:+—_khachar_ 74, 249; _khāk-bīla_
(leap-frog) 26; _Khān-dāda_; _kīsāk_ (old person) 66; _kīm_
(yeast) 423; _kīyīk_ 6, 8, 10, 224, 491; _khimār_ = cymar
(scarf) 561; _kūīlāk_ syn. _kūnglāk_ (pullover vest, jersey)
171-5; _kūkbūrā_ see _aūghlāqchī_; _kūr-khāna_; Qarshī = Ar.
_qaṣr_ 84; _kūrūsh_, looking in the eyes, interviewing _i.a._
54, 64, 640 (_cf. qūchūsh_, embracing); _kusarū_[?] 369;
_kūshlūq_ 250.

_La Grande inscription de Qandahar_, J. Darmesteter (_JAS. 1890_),
App. J, xxxiii-iv.

_Lahor to Yaṛkand_, Hume and Henderson—_yāk_ App. M, xlvii.

Laidlaw (_JASB 1848_)—nasal utterance App. E.

Lane's Lexicon _see_ Dictionaries.

Langlés art. Babour Preface xiv.

Law (Muḥammad's)—on blood-vengeance 194, 251-8;
Shaibānī's disregard of 329;
Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā's_ regard for 258;
Bābur's orthodox observance shown _e.g._ 25, 44, 111, 262, 370-7,
483, 547-51-74-89-96, and in the _Mubīn and Wālidiyyaḥ-risāla_
_q.v._;
his orthodox reputation (_epitaph_) 711;
his observance as to intoxicants 302, beyond his 23rd year 299,
302-3-4;
his return to obedience (933) in 44th year 551-5;
referred to 203 (_verse_) 645-7-8;
his breaches of Law:—against types of verse 447,
repented 448;
against wine, _see s.n._ Wine.

_Les Mosquées de Samarcande_, Pet. Archeol. S.—74-8-7.

_Les six voyages en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes_, Jean Baptiste
le Tavernier—the coin _casbeke, kipkī_ 296.

_Letters of Lady Mary W. Montagne_—lovers' marks 16.

Letters—Nawā'ī's imitation of Jāmī's collection 271;
Bābur keeps a letter of 910 to 935 AH. 190;
his royal-letters (_farmān_) 463-4, 526, 617 (_with autograph
marginal couplet_), others (_khaṯ_ṯ) 331-2;
to Khw. Kalān 411 (_with autograph couplet_), 603 n. 3, 627, and
(_reproduced_) 645;
to Humāyūn (_reproduced_) 624;
to Kāmrān 645-6, Preface xxxv, xliii;
to Māhīm 374, 541;
Letters-of-victory:—Kābul 319,
Bajaur 371,
Ḥiṣar-fīrūza 466,
Kānwa 559-74, 580.

Levirate marriage 23, 267.

Levy on stipendiaries 617.

Lexicon Persico-Latinum, I. A. Vullers _see_ Dictionaries.

Leyden John—tentative trs. of the Bukhara Compilation, Preface
xlvii-viii-ix, lviii.

_Life and Letters of Ogier G. de Busbecq_ [_trs.
Forster & Daniel_]—explains "Sulṯanīm" 29.

_L'Inde des Rajas_, L. Rousselet—Gūālīār 605.

_Linguistic Survey of India_, Sir G. A. Grierson—forms of "nine"
App. E, xviii.

Loess 3, 30, App. A, ii.

Looting of assigned individuals 328.

Lord [JASB 1838]—Ghūrbund 205;
Running-sands 215.

"Lords of the Elephant" 563-73.

Lordship in the Gate _see_ Gate.

_Lotophagi_, a fruit they ate 210;
quoted 42.

Lover's-marks 16, Add. Note, P. 16.

_Lubbut't-tawārīkh_, Yaḥya _Kazwīnī_—an early (brief) source 349;
dates the battle of Ghaj-dāvān 361.

+Noticeable words+:—
_lām_ (fort) 210;
_likh_, _lūja_, _lūkha_ (a bird) 498, App. N, xlvii.

_Ma`āṣir-i-raḥīmī_ (a Life of `Abdu'r-raḥīm Mirza _q.v._),
`Abdu'l-bāqī _Nahavandī_—Bābur's wife Ṣalḥa 713.

_Ma`āsiru'l-`umrā_, Shāh-navāz-Khān—Mu'az̤z̤am-nagar = Dīn-kot 206.

McGregor, Col. H. G.—meaning of "_ningrahar_" and
"_nungnihar_" = 9 streams, App. E, xix.

Magic—rain making with the jade-stone (_yada-tāsh_) 27, 67, 654;
the stone used to ensure victory 623;
Bābur's talisman to stop rain 423.

_Majālis-i-nafā'is_, `Alī-sher _Nawā'ī_—mentions `Abdu'l-lāh
_Barlās_ 51.

_Making of a Frontier_, A. G. A. Durand—Greek descent 22.

_Malfūzāt-i-tīmūrī_ (Tīmūr's Turki Annals)—not discredited by
no-mention in the mutilated B.N. 653;
Yūnas Khān and the book Preface xxix;
an incentive to Bābur xxx,
perhaps also at xxxii;
their acceptance in a Persian translation by Shāh-jahān xlvi.[2956]

_Mammals of India_, T. E. Jerdon—hog-deer 491.

_Manners and customs of the modern Egyptians_, E. W. Lane—drinkables
298.

_Manual of Gardening_, Firminger—cherries 203;
_kamrak_ fruit 506;
an orange 511;
_sadā-fal_ 512.

Manufactures of Samarkand, cramoisy and paper 81, 305.

_Marmion_ (_Scott's Notes to_), wild geese checked in flight 214.

Marriage, compelled 386;
levirate 23, 267;
legitimate 269;
illegal 329.

The _Maṣnawī_ of Jalālu'd-dīn _Rūmī_ (_trs. E. H. Whinfield_)—read
by `Umar Shaikh 15, Preface xxx.

_Materials for the History of India_, Nassau Lees—amongst the sources
for filling out Bābur-nāma gaps 428.

_Maṯla`u's-sa`dain_, `Abdu'r-razzāq (_N. et Ex. xiv_)—Timurid
suzerainty acknowledged in Dihli [in 814-1411] 459.

Meal-hours—big breakfast 389;
nooning 614-861.

Measures—+Linear+:—_aīlīk_ (finger-breadth) 489, 630;
_arghamchī_ (rope) 614;
arrow's-flight (_i.a._ bow-shot), _i.a._ 8, 640;
from gate-ward to Gate 316;
_gaz_ 611 n. 3;
_kuroh_ _i.a._ 76;
_qadam_ (step, pace) 75, 630, (of a horse) 666;
_qārī_ 7, 208-9, 489, 550, 611-29-30-31;
_qārīsh_ (inch) 489;
_qūlāch_ 406-93;
_shar`ī_ 76, 200;
spear's length 196, 377, 474;
_tanāb_ (rope) 630;
_tūtām_ (hand-breadth) 630;
_yīghāch_ (Prs. trs. _farsang_) 4, 7, 9, 10, 25, 55, 76, 82-3-4,
99, 138, 208-17-18, 323, App. A, v. n. 1;
—+Time+:—Hindūstān divisions of the year 515 to 517;
boiling of milk 175, 237;
—+Weight+:—bātmān 263, 276;
_mān_ 699;
miṣqāl 421-77, 632;
_ratī_ 477 n. 6, 517;
_tāsh_ (stone, silver & gold) 632;
Kābul _sīr_ (_ser_) 632, 546;
Table of weights of Hind 517-8;
_tūla_ 517-41;
—ass-load (_kharwar_) 228, 338-9, 374;
—+Numeration+ (Indian) 518;
—+Capacity+:—_x_ mills water-power _i.a._ 208, 216, 462-5, 581;
(coins by the) quiverful 632.

Medical and surgical remedies:—dried plums (_prunes_) 82;
water dropped from cotton 89;
trepanning 106-9;
seton, bandage (_yīldīz_) 169;
powder for bone-growing 169;
water-melon and narcissus 246, 399, 401;
rose-water (_jūl-āb_) 400;
antidotes to poison 511, 543;
tonic powders 606;
opium 608, 661;
quicksilver 618;
pepper-steaming 657, 660.

_Mediæval geography and history of Central and Western Asia_,
E. Bretschneider—Ālmālīgh and other old towns 2;
Sīmīz-kīnt [_Fat-village_], a name of Samarkand 75;
_Nūyān_ explained 131.

_Mémoires relatifs à l'Asie_ (_ii, 134_), J. Klaproth—its valuable
extracts from the Bukhara Compilation, Preface, Cap. III,

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