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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Index III. General

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Babur, Emperor of Hindustan and Beveridge, Annette Susannah
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Lane’s Lexicon see Dictionaries.
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Langlés art. Babour Preface xiv.
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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.
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Les Mosquées de Samarcande, Pet. Archeol. S.—74-8-7.
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Les six voyages en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes, Jean Baptiste le Tavernier—the coin casbeke, kipkī 296.
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Letters of Lady Mary W. Montagne—lovers’ marks 16.
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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 (khat̤t̤) 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.
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Levirate marriage 23, 267.
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Levy on stipendiaries 617.
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Lexicon Persico-Latinum, I. A. Vullers see Dictionaries.
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Leyden John—tentative trs. of the Bukhara Compilation, Preface xlvii-viii-ix, lviii.
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Life and Letters of Ogier G. de Busbecq [trs. Forster & Daniel]—explains “Sult̤anīm” 29.
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L’Inde des Rajas, L. Rousselet—Gūālīār 605.
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Linguistic Survey of India, Sir G. A. Grierson—forms of “nine” App. E, xviii.
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Loess 3, 30, App. A, ii.
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Looting of assigned individuals 328.
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Lord [JASB 1838]—Ghūrbund 205; Running-sands 215.
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“Lords of the Elephant” 563-73.
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Lordship in the Gate see Gate.
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Lotophagi, a fruit they ate 210; quoted 42.
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Lover’s-marks 16, Add. Note, P. 16.
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Lubbut’t-tawārīkh, Yaḥya Kazwīnī—an early (brief) source 349; dates the battle of Ghaj-dāvān 361.
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Noticeable words:— lām (fort) 210; likh, lūja, lūkha (a bird) 498, App. N, xlvii.
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Ma‘āṣir-i-raḥīmī (a Life of ‘Abdu’r-raḥīm Mirza q.v.), ‘Abdu’l-bāqī Nahavandī—Bābur’s wife Ṣalḥa 713.
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Ma‘āsiru’l-‘umrā, Shāh-navāz-Khān—Mu’az̤z̤am-nagar = Dīn-kot 206.
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McGregor, Col. H. G.—meaning of “ningrahar” and “nungnihar” = 9 streams, App. E, xix.
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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.
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Majālis-i-nafā’is, ‘Alī-sher Nawā’ī—mentions ‘Abdu’l-lāh Barlās 51.
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Making of a Frontier, A. G. A. Durand—Greek descent 22.
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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
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Mammals of India, T. E. Jerdon—hog-deer 491.
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Manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, E. W. Lane—drinkables 298.
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Manual of Gardening, Firminger—cherries 203; kamrak fruit 506; an orange 511; sadā-fal512.
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Manufactures of Samarkand, cramoisy and paper 81, 305.
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Marmion (Scott’s Notes to), wild geese checked in flight 214.
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Marriage, compelled 386; levirate 23, 267; legitimate 269; illegal 329.
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The Maṣnawī of Jalālu’d-dīn Rūmī (trs. E. H. Whinfield)—read by ‘Umar Shaikh 15, Preface xxx.
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Materials for the History of India, Nassau Lees—amongst the sources for filling out Bābur-nāma gaps 428.
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Mat̤la‘u’s-sa‘dain, ‘Abdu’r-razzāq (N. et Ex. xiv)—Timurid suzerainty acknowledged in Dihli [in 814-1411] 459.
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Meal-hours—big breakfast 389; nooning 614-861.

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

Index II. Geographical.