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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Index III. General

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Prisoners—rebels killed 69, 113; war-captives killed 233, 466-8; set free 37, 237, 313, 371, 413; traitors pardoned 317-9, 320, 345.
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Projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, Sir W. F. Payne-Gallwey—stone ammunition 667.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Puns and Quips—44, 115, 136-7, 150, 189, 287, 391, 529, 648.
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Noticeable words:— P. pahr and pās distinguished 634; postīn10.
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Qandahar in 1879AD., Le Mesurier—the old town 431; stone-ammunition ib.
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Qandahar see La grande inscription de Q.
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Qaṣidatu’l-burda, Al-buṣīrī—Bābur works from its motive 620; [cf. Réné Basset].
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qizil-bash (red-head) 266, 618-22-30-35.
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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.
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Quatremère, E.—(N. et Ex.) 446-59, (J. des Savans, 1843) 605.
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Qirānu’s-sa‘dain, Amīr Khusrau—a couplet quoted 503 (H.B.).
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Noticeable words:— qābāq34; qāchār (punned on) 44; qārī (a measure) 7; qarā-tīyāq101, 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.
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Races of Afghanistan, H. W. Bellew—Khīlīch 29 (where read title as above).
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Raft—(Farghāna) 161, 180; (Kābul) 410-11-12-21-22-23, 447-8.
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Rāmacārita, H. Sastri (Memoirs, AS Bengal) Nagarahāra App. E, xxiii.
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Rāmpūr MS. of Bābur’s Diwān, Preface 1, App. Q.
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Rapid travel—Aūrā-tīpa to Bābā Khākī 25; Kishm to Qandahār 621; Kābul to Āgra 621.
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Rashaḥāt-i-‘ainu’l-ḥayāt [Tricklings from the Fount of Life] ‘Alī Kāshifī— Khwājakī Khwāja 62; Aḥrārī 620; [not known to Erskine].
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Rauẓatu’s-ṣafā, Mīr Khwānd—referred to (?) 11; Bābā-i-kābulī 14; Hazārāspī 50; a chronogram 85; the Chaghatāī Khāns (908 AH.) 161.
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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.
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Hi”st on the Ghilzai country, J. S. Broadfoot [ed. W. Broadfoot]—birds at Āb-istāda 240;
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Hi”st 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;
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Hi”st on Karnal, D. Ibbetson—Mundāhirs 700;
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Hi”st of Mission to Kāshghar, Col. J. Biddulph’s art.—marāl 8;
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Hi”st” Persian Boundary Commission, W. T. Blanford’s art.—Pteroclas arenarius App. B, vi; —A. Gérard’s art.—irrigation-channels of Aūsh (Ūsh) 4;
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Hi”st” Settlement Operations etc., Reid—old alluvium on the Gogrā 667; narrowing of the river 669;
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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.
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“Rescue-passage” 182, App. D; Preface xlv (No. viii).
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Revenue Accounts (Bengal), F. Gladwin—dating of 935 AH. 629, App. S; tanāb-measure 630.
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Revenue resources of the Mughal Empire, E. Thomas—coin-values 446; t̤amghā553; Sikandarī tanka 577.
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Revenues various—Farghāna 12, Tātār Khān Lūdī’s 383, Kābul-town 250, Hindustān 520, App. P.
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Rhétorique, Garçin de Tassy—combinaisons énigmatiques 202.
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Ride from Samarkand to Herat, N. Grodekoff (trs. Marvin)—Pul-i-chīrāgh 69; Chār-shaṃba 71.
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Riyazu’s-salāt̤īn, Ghulām-i-husain—a Lūdī alliance 482.
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Roads measured—Agra-Kabul 629; Munīr to camp by horse-paces 666; Chunār eastwards 659.

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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur), Project Gutenberg eBook #44608

Index II. Geographical.