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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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ruler, mist̤ār—a new one for copying the Wālidiyyah-risāla 643.
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Russian Policy in Central Asia, Grigorief (Schuyler’s Turkistan App. IV)—Bābur’s embassy to Moscow App. Q, lxiii; Peter the Great’s embassy to Bukhara Preface p. liii.
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Sachau, C.—on the Malfūzāt-i-tīmūrī 653. Ṣāḥih-i-bukhārī, Ismā‘īl Khartank—his native land 76.
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Sainthood—courage a witness to 90.
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Siyaru’l-muta‘akhirīn, Ghulām-i-ḥusain Khān—trepanning 105.
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Salt, fidelity to 125, 440.
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Samarkand begs—action of 52, 62, 86, 124-5.
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Samarkandis—displeased with a Mīrzā 42; overjoyed at his death 52; no scarcity in a siege 64; move against Bukhārā 65; oppose Bābur 72; their orthodoxy 75; joy at Bābur’s return 131-3.
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Sang-lākhsee Dictionaries.
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Sārt, Sāīrt—Bābur’s serviceable use of the name 6, 7, 149; a “Sāīrt”’s blunder 169.
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Science of Language, Max Müller—guest-tribes 227.
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Scottish service for the Bābur-nāma, Preface xlvii, xlviii.
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Second Afghan War (Official Account)—its maps 201-6, 229, 314-32; Chār-dih 200; Qandahār App. J, xxxiii; ‘Alī-masjid 450; a valuable book in following Babur’s campaigns, 333.
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Second Journey through Persia, J. J. Morier (Ḥājī Bābā)—a bird App. B, vi.
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Sects, Muḥammadan—Mātarīdiyah, Ash‘ariyah, Abū Ḥanīfa’s 75-6, Shafi‘ī 283; Radīyān 625.
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Shāhī Kings of Kābul, Sir Aurel Stein—200.
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Shāh-nāma, Firdausī [trs. Warner] Chāchī bow, khadang arrows 13; much read 15; Bāqī Tarkhān sketched 40; a couplet 557; a quatrain 571.
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Shaibānī-nāma, Muḥ. Ṣāliḥ Mīrzā [ed. Vambéry]—[see nn. on pp. named], writes “Shaibānī” not Shaibāq 12; Sh.’s marriages, with Bābur’s sister 17-8, 147, and with Zuhra Aūzbeg 126-8; his dealings with Zuhra’s son ‘Alī 126-8, with Bābur 144-6-7, with the Chaghatāī Khāns 182-3-4; later action 191-2; —Taṃbal 145, 244; others 40, 62, 101, 196; Chīn Ṣūfī 242-56; Khusrau Shāh’s jewels 144; Oghlāt (Dūghlāt) 22; Chirkas sword 65; Khwāst a hell 221, bāghrī qarā App. B, v, vii; the book and its author 64, 120-1-7 [cf. Tuḥfa-i-Sāmī I.O. 655, f. 342].
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Shajarat-i Turk, Abū’l-ghāzī Mīrzā [ed. Fræhn, trs. Désmaisons]—[see nn. on pp. named], “Nurīm” Sherīm etc. 29; an archer’s mark 34; san = dīm 154; tūghāī, tūqāī (bend of a river) 643; a Shabān sult̤ān 265; of Bābur’s descent see its Introduction.
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Shajaratu’l-atrāk, Aūlugh Beg Shahrukhī (trs. Miles)—Bābur’s descent see its Introduction.
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Sharaf-nāma, Sharaf Khān (trs. F. E. Charmoy)—Battle of Jām 635.
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Sharafu’d-dīn ‘Alī Yazdī—his book on enigmas 201; his Z̤afar-nāma (see s.n.) Preface xxix.
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Shaving—Bābur’s first 187; Humāyūn notes his in the B.N. 466; beard shaved as punishment 404; untrimmed by vow 552; head shaved 408, 649.
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Shī‘a heresy—instances 258-62-86, 111 (and return); Bābur’s fatal Shī‘a alliance, 347-54-55-61, Preface xxxv.
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Sikh religion—Nānak’s exposition to Bābur 461; Nānak and Daulat Khān ib.
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Siyāsat-nāma [Traité de gouvernement], Wazīr Niẕamu’l-mulk, [ed. C. Schefer]—use of a whip in making count of an army 154.
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Slaves—slave-women retaliate on their owner’s murderers 63, are captured at the Samarkand ditch 73, taken by crocodiles 502; slave-agents in poisoning Bābur 541; —Shāh Beg’s faithful slave see Saṃbhal; the chief-slave 346; slave-trade between Hind and Kābul 202; —Mīnglī Bībī, a slave-woman 269.
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Song by Wordsworth recalled—the “undying fish” 305.
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Spanish Literature, Ticknor—Montalvan on Lope de Vega 287.
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Sport and politics under an Eastern sky, Lord Ronaldshay—marāl 8.
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” and Travel, F. C. Selous—marāl 8.
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Square seal—Abū-sa‘īd’s 28.
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Standards (tūgh, qūtās-tūgh)—acclaimed 155; bestowed 372 etc.;
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Sūlūku’l-mulūk, Faẓl b. Ruzbahān Isfahānī—value as a source 348; supports the form “Bābur” 356.
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Supplément etc., R. Dozy see Dictionaries.
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Swimming—man and horse in mail 140, 237; man and horse bare 237; competition 401; on bundles of reeds 673; Bābur’s (in mail) 140, 603-55-660-61.
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Noticeable words:— P. sar-i-sabz, green-head 66, 703; P. sar-kob 53-92964; sangur232; sīghnāq, a script App. Q, lxiii.
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T̤abaqāt-i-akbarī, Niz̤āmu’d-dīn Ahṃad—[see nn. on pp. named], Bāburī Script 228, App. Q, lxii; Jang-jang370; date of Shāh Beg’s death 437; Hazāras serve Bābur 457; Gujrāt affairs 535; Multan affairs 699; Bābur’s Kashmīr force 692-8; the author’s father 691; proposed supersession in Hind of Bābur’s sons 644-88-92-93, discussed 702 ff.; the book plagiarized 693.

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

Index II. Geographical.

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