Index II. Geographical.
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Babur, Emperor of Hindustan and Beveridge, Annette Susannah
Bārīk-āb (affluent of the “Kābul-river”), Bābur on 409, 414, 446.
Bast, Bost, Bust (on the Helmand, Afghānistān), Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s affairs at 94, 260.
Bast̤am (‘Irāq), a w. limit of Khurāsān 261 (where read Bast̤am); captured 622.
Bateswār (U.P. India), ferry of 643 n. 3.
Bāzār and Tāq (India), see Dasht.
Bāzārak (Hindū-kush), described 205.
Beg-tūt (Kābul), earthquake action near 247.
Benares (India), see Banāras.
Bengal, Bangala (India), particulars of the rules and customs in 482; envoys to and from 637, 640, 665; army of 663; Bābur at ease about 677, 679 n. 7; traversed by the Ganges 485; a bird of 495; fruits of 504.
Between-two-waters (Farghāna), see Aīkī-sū-ārā.
Betwī-river, Betwa (C. India) described 597.
Bhānder (C. India), see Bāndīr.
Bhīlsān (C. India), Sangā’s 483; Bābur’s plan against 598.
Bhīra (Panj-āb), history of 382; revenue of 521; tribes of 387; Balūchīs in 383; locates places 379, 380, 381; limit of Lūdī Afghān lands 481, and of Bābur’s in Hindūstān 520; servants from 616, 678; arrivals from 228, 391, 419; local soldiery 389, 539, rhinoceros in 490, Bābur and 377-8, 382-3-7, *429, 478; he stays in the fort of 384; safeguards people of 383, 478; sends prisoners into 461; summons by Māhīm of an escort from 650; a governor 386-8, 392-9.
Bhūjpūr (Bihār, India), Bābur at 662.
Bīah-sū, Beas (Panj-āb), course of 485; Bābur crosses 458.
Bīāna, Bayāna (Rājpūtāna), mountains in 486; red-stone of 532, 611; water-raising in 487; a dependency of 563; locates places 539, 613; disaffection to Bābur of 523-9; taken 530-8, 540-5; a gun made to use against it 537; praise of its soldiers 548, 550; an appointment to 579; asked for 613; Bābur at 577, 581; his workmen in 520; revenue from assigned to support his tomb *709.
Bīānwān pargana (U.P. India), assignment on 540.
Bībī Māh-rūī (Kābul), Bābur at 314.
Bīgrām, Bīkrām (Panj-āb), four ancient sites so-named 230 n. 2; Bābur at 230, 394, 450-1.
Bihār (India), a limit of Afghān lands in Hind 480-1, and of Bābur’s 520; revenue of 521; Bābur and 639, 656, 677-9; an assignment on 676; mentioned as if Bābur’s 561; Muḥammad-i-zamān and 661-3-4; an earlier Lūdī capture of 675; a dīwān of 661.
Bihiya (Bihār, India), Bābur at 662-7 n. 2.
Bih-zādī (Kābul), Bābur at 398, 416-8; wine fetched from 417; 19th century vinegar of 417 n. 2.
Bījānagar, Vījāynagar (Dakhin, Deccan, India), a ruler of 483.
Bīlādar (U.P. India), see Balādar.
Bīlah (Panj-āb), Bābur at 237.
Bilkir? (Kābul), Bābur at 420.
Bilwah ferry (Ganges), Bābur at 658.
Bīmrūkī pargana (Panj-āb), a holder of 453.
Birk and Birkistān, see Barak.
Bīshkhārān (Farghāna), good fighting at 28;
Bābur at or near 117-8, 170.
Bīsh-kīnt (on the Khujand-Tāshkīnt road), Taṃbal at 145, 154; Bābur at 151.
Bī-sūt (Kābul), Bī-sūtīs migrated to Bajaur 375.
Bolān-pass (Balūchistān), *Shah Beg’s entrance to Sind 429.
“Bottam” (? débouchement of the Zar-afshān), a word used by Ibn Hankal 76 n. 6.
Būdana-qūrūq (Samarkand), described 82;
Bābur at 131 (here Quail-reserve).
Buhlūlpūr (Panj-āb), Bābur at 454.
Bukhārā (Transoxiana), described 82; w. limit of Samarkand 76, and of Soghd 84; deficient water-supply of 77; trade with Kābul 202; wines of 83; melons of 10, 82; bullies in 7; Bābur sends sugar-cane to 208; various rulers of 35, 38, 112; governors in 40, 52, 121; taken by Shaibānī 125; various attacks on 63-5, 124, *356-7-9, *354, *359, *360; Bābur’s capture of 21, 704 n. 3; Mahdī Khwāja and 704 n. 3; various comings and goings from and to 62-3-4, 135, 534.