Index III. General
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Babur, Emperor of Hindustan and Beveridge, Annette Susannah
Whiteway, Mr. R. S.—his help App. B, vii.
Wilāyat = Kābul 414.
With the Kuram Field-Force, J. A. S. Colquhoun—a route 231.
Wine (i.e. any fermented liquor)—‘arāq (spirit) 385-6-7-8, 453-61-76; mahuwa-flower 505; beer 423; cider (chagīr) 83, Add. Note, P. 83; wines of Bukhārā 83, Herī 265, Kābul:—Ālā-sāī 221, Dara-i-nūr 210, 410, App. G; Ghazni 461, Kābul-tumān 203, Nijr-aū 213;— Kāfiristan 211-12, 372;— rules in use:—drinking-days 33-4, 111, 447; one liquor only 386; no-pressure on a non-drinker 406-10; wine-parties:—Bābur protests against excess 398; excludes drunkards 419, is disgusted by drunken uproar 386 and by beer-intoxication 423; gives his followers freedom to do as Herātīs did 304; givers of “wines”, Khw. Kalān 371-5, 461, Shāh Beg 400, the Bāī-qarā Mirzas 299, 302, Khw. Muḥ. ‘Alī 411 (a business-party), 413;— Bābur’s breaches of Law not committed till cir. his 28th year 83, 355; resisted temptation in Herāt 299, etc.— his parties associated with beauty of scene, e.g. autumnal 414-16-18; in his gardens 412, 406 and 420; under a plane-tree 405, at Istālīf 406, near an illuminated camp 450; after and before long marches (frequent); mention made of (925 AH.) 375-85-88, 408-10-14-15-16-17-19; (926 AH.) 420-1-2-3-4; (932 AH.) 447, 450-53-61; (933 AH.) 537;— drinks a few cups to console 418, out of courtesy in a charmless place 424; “morning” 395-8, 415-20-22; gallops when not sober 388-98;— Other Law-breakers Preface xxix, 16, 33-4, 45, 70, 134, 259-68-73, (woman) 36, 417; Herātīs 259, Ḥiṣāris 42, Pich-Kāfirs 22;— Parties accompanied by improvisation 26, dancing 299, music (usually); (for return to obedience see Law and Index I s.n. Bābur).
Wordsworth’s “undying fish” recalled 305.
Workmen—Tīmūr’s 77, 520;
Bābur’s 520, 634.
Wray, Mr. Cecil and Mr. Leonard—their help 495, 502.
Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and Magog) 560.
Yāqūt see Dictionary of Towns.
Noticeable words:— Yada-tāsh, jade-stone see Magic; yāghrūnchī, divination from sheep’s-blades 233; yīghāch, tree, wood 11, 81; yīghāchsee Measures; yīgīt, a brave 16, 53, 70, App. H, xxvii; yīlāq, alp see i.a. Yār- and Būrka-; yīnka-chīcha, maternal-uncle’s mother-in-law (?); yīnkalīk, levirate 23, 267, 306, 616; yūkūnmāk, to bend the knee 301; yūsūnlūq, hereditary 23.
Z̤afar-nāma (Book of Victory i.e. Tīmūr’s) Maulana Sharafu’d-dīn ‘Ali Yazdī—[see nn. on pp. named], places 10, 74-8, 83-4; persons 39, 272; meaning of Sawālak 485; Tīmūr’s capture of Qarshī 134; his burial at a saint’s feet 266; his workmen 77, 520; partly translated in Histoire de Tīmūr Beg q.v.; the book and its main basis, the Malfūzāt-i-tīmūrī Preface xxix, xxx, its author xxxiii.
Zainu’d-dīn Khawāfī (Shaikh Zain)’s writings— (1) T̤abaqāt-i-bāburī q.v.; (2) Mubīn, a Commentary on Bābur’s Mubīn 438; (3) Farmān announcing Bābur’s renouncement of wine and remission of t̤amghā-tax 553; (4) Fatḥ-nāma of the victory at Kānwa 559 to 574; Bābur’s reason for inserting it (4) in his book 559; the sole Letter of victory so preserved 561; grounds against supposing Bābur wrote a plain Turkī account of the battle 574.