Index III. General
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Babur, Emperor of Hindustan and Beveridge, Annette Susannah
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 Niz̤āmī (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, 288.2963
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.