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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Index III. General

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Abdu’l-wahhāb Ghaj-dāvānī see Wāqi‘-nāma-i-pādshāhī.
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Ablution—before death 188; reservoirs 208, 217, 580, 639, 683.
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Abū-t̤ālib Ḥusainī or Abū’l-ḥusain Turbatī see Malfūzāt-i-tīmūri.
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Abūshqa, a Turki—Turkish Dict.—quotes verses as Bābur’s 438; quotes Khw. Kalān 526; the Bāburī-script App. Q, lxiii.
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Account-rolls of palm leaves 510.
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Adoption—of a son 170; præ-natal 374, App. L.
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Afghanistan and the Afghans, H. W. Bellew—vine-culture 210; decoy-ducks 225 (where, in n. 5, read title as above).
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Afghan Poets of the XVII Century, C. E. Biddulph—Khūsh-āb Khattak mentions Bābur 439.
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Afẓal Khān Khattak—(Raverty’s Notes q.v.)—Nīl-āb (ferry-station) 206.
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Agriculture—seed-corn and money advances 86; young millet grazed 215; methods of vine culture 210; water-raising appliances 388, 486-7; irrigation, “running waters”:—Farghāna 4, 5, 7, Samarkand 76-7, 147; Hindūstān 486-7, 519-31-81, Qandahār 332-6, Chandīrī 596; —canals:—Farghāna 67, Samarkand 76, 147; —grain, corn:—Farghāna 2, 3, 55, 114-46, Kābul 203, 228, 373-4, [green corn] 394, Qandahār 333, Hash-nagar 410, Bārā 414, Bhīra 381; —raft of corn seized on the Sind 392; horse-corn fails on a march 238-9; (rice) 342-74-94, 410.
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Akbar-nāma, Shaikh Abū’l-faẓl ‘Allāmīy, (trs. H. Beveridge)—(see notes on pp. given) meanings:—bāt-qāq 31; nihilam and tasqāwal 45; Tardīka 568; Tarkhān 34; fīl-i-daryā’i App. M. xlvii; —persons:—13, 22, 263-4, 346, 552, 562, 641, 657; —various places:—191, 206, 441, 523, App. J, xxxv; —winter access to Farghāna 2; Niz̤āmī quoted 44; an inscription of Bābur’s 343; Rūmi defences 469; the(Koh-i-nūr) diamond 477; a cognomen 566; risks to MSS. App. D, x; Akbar-nāma material *441-5, *691-3; Bābur supplemented 639; length of work on it *692 n.; Mubīn passage translated in the “Fragments” (q.v.) *437-8; Bābur’s self-devotion *701; his choice of a successor *702 to 705, mentioned Preface xxxiii; translated from by Jahāngīr (?) xlv.
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‘Alī-sher Nawā’ī’s comforts 287.
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Allgemeine Erdkunde, Carl Ritter—Barā-koh 5; Bābur’s farsī-gūī useful 7; Akhsī distances App. A, v.
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‘Amal-i-ṣāliḥ, Muḥ. Ṣāliḥ—Shāh-jahān’s destruction of wine 298; tūīgūn (bird) 418.
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Amanitates exoticae, Engelbertus Kæmpfer—Ijtihād 284.
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Ancient Geography of India, Major-Gen. Sir Alex. Cunningham—(see nn. on pp. named) Shibr-tu 205; Nīl-āb 206; Kohistān villages 214; Gūrkhattri 230; Bigrām 230; Udyān-apūra App. E, xxi.
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajastan Col. James Tod—Sangā’s force 547; negociations with Bābur 550; appearance 558; Ṣalāḥu’d-dīn (Silhādi) 562.
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Antidotes—lime-juice 511,
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Anwar-i-suhailī, Ḥusain Wā‘iz̤u ‘l-kāshīfī—quoted 22; Firdausi quoted 557, Add. N, P. 557.
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‘arāq see fermented drinks, s.n. Wine.
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Archery2949—[see nn. on pp. named], good bowmen 16, 22, 26, 34 (2), cross-bowman 53, 263; remarkable feats 276, 279; —archer’s marks:—ilbāsūn (duck), qabāq (gourd), tūqūq (hen) 34, takhta (target); qabāq-maidān 276;— arrows:—aūq 22, 34, 255, etc., giz213, 225, khadang (white poplar) 13, tīr-giz 11 (where preface n. 2 by the name), 34; arrow-barb, paikān 22, -notch, gosha App. C, -flight 8, 140; flights of arrows 52; rain of, 138; quiver T. sāghdāq 160, 166, P. tarkash 526; an arrow-borne letter 361; —bows:—Chāchī bow (kamān) 13; cross-bow takhsh-andāz, kamān-i-guroha 55, 263; narmdīk yāī, an easy-bow 420; qātīq yāī, a stiff-bow 490; —bows ruined by Hindūstān climate 519, *700; —various:—chaprās, daur, gosha, kamān-khāna, kardāng explained App. C; gosha-gīr, a repairing-tool 166, App. C; Turkish bow-making a fine craft App. C, ix; dismounting to shoot 52; —to bow-string (T. kīrīsh sālmāq) 110.
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Architecture Timuriya and Timurid Pr. xxxi.
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Archiv für Asiatische Litteratur H. J. Klaproth (q.v.)—Kasan gardens 10; his extracts from the Bukhara Compilation MSS. Pr. xxxix, xlvii.
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Ariana Antiqua, H. H. Wilson—Masson’s art. Actīnapūr Region 227, Nagarāhāra App. E, xvii.
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Army of the Indian Moghuls, W. Irvine—trepanning 109; misled 470; on muljār (q.v.) 592; “shātur” explained 593; firingi (gun) 473, pontoon-bridges 600.
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‘Arūz-i-saifi, Maulāna Sayyid Maḥmūd Saifi of Bukhāra, (trs. Blochmann and Ranking)—a note by Rieu 288; Saifi’s pupil Bāī-sunghar 111; his high number of rubā’i measures App. Q, lxvi.
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Asia Portuguesa, Manuel de Faria y Sousa—Habshi succession custom 482.
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Astronomy and Astrology—Tables and Observatories 74, 79, Pr. xxx; Canopus (Suhail) 195; forecasts 139, 551; houses of Scorpio 633; Pole-star a guide 323, its altitude at Chandīrī 597; Capricorn 597.
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Ayīn-i-akbarī, Abū-faẓl (trs. Blochmann, Jarrett)—(see nn. on pp. named); Climates 1; qīlīj (cognomen) 29; observatories 79; guns 473; clepsydra 516; kitchen rules 541; fruits 3, 501-3-4-5, 512; chalma624; hunting deer 630; baḥrī (falcon) 632; mīlak (gold, cloth) 641; yak-tai (unlined) 652; —(weights and measures) khar-war 228, tānāb630, sang=tāsh632; —a title 209; a child traveller 265; Barlās begs 270; (places) Kābul 207, 221; Kacha-kot 250; Sidhpūr 429; Nagarāhāra App. E, xxiii; Buhlūlpūr 454; Kanwāhīn 458; Milwat (Malot) 461; Jahān-nāma 485; Chausath 581; Lakhnūr 582; Sikandra Rao 587, Godi, Gūī 601; —(persons) 285, 653, 666, App. P, lvi; —Bābur’s expedition to Kashmīr 693.
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Agār-i-sanādīd, Sayyid Aḥmad Khān—places Bābur visited 475; Mahdī Khwāja and Amīr Khusrau’s tomb 704.
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P. āb-duzd 109 = P. dū-tahī 62, 595-6;
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aīkī-sū-ārā = P. miyān-dū-āb (Mesopotamia) i.a 88;
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aīmāq (clan) 51, 196, 207-15-55, Add. Note P. 49;
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M. ālāchī whence Alacha 23;

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Index II. Geographical.