Bābā, son of Rājah Rām Chand B'hat-
tā, 345.
Bābā Bēg, Dīwān of Gujrāt, 256.
Bābā Khān Qāqshāl,—a nobleman of
the Court of Akbar, 98, 146, 288,
289, 291.
Bābā Shaikhū Jī,—the name by which
Akbar called his eldest son prince
Salīm, afterwards Jahāngīr, 390
and n 2.
Bābar,—the emperor of Hindūstān
and grandfather of Akbar, 54 n 2,
65 n 1, 216, 217.
Bābar, Erskine's, 65 n 1.
Babhal Khān,—a ghulām of 'Adalī
the emperor of India, 25 n 2.
Bād,—a sarāī in the neighbourhood
of Fatḥpūr, 300.
Badah, Shaikh. See under Shaikh
Badah.
Badakhshān, 5 and n 2, 6, 57, 61, 62,
72, 91, 185, 204, 217, 219, 220, 222,
276, 278, 302, 350, 351, 355, 357,
366, 367, 373, 408.
Badakhshees, the, or
Badakhshīs, the, 61, 71, 409.
Badnagar,—a town in the district of
Rānā Udai Singh, 173 and n 1.
Badāon. See under Badāūn.
Badāonī, 'Abdu-l-Qādir, son of Mulūk
Shāh,—author of the Muntakhabu-
t-tawārīkh, 7 n 5, 11 n 2, 207 n 4.
Badāūn, town of, 73, 88, 130, 139,
142, 143, 154, 175, 182, 223, 243
n 1, 379, 380, 384, 388, 389, 396,
423.
Bādāwar,—one of the seven treasures
of Khusrou, 85 n 1.
Badru-d-dīn, Shaikh, son of Shaikh
Islām Chishtī, 215, 344.
Bæotians, the, 253 n 1.
Baghdād, 64, 210, 212, 282.
Baglāna, district of, 151 and n 1.
Bahādur Khān, Muḥammad Sa'īd
Shaibānī, son of Ḥaidar Sulṭān
Uzbek-i-Shaibānī, and brother of
the Khān Zamān, 4, 18 and n 2,
29, 32, 44, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,
85, 89, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 103,
104.
Bahādur Khān Sarwānī. See under
Pahār Khān Sarwānī.
Bahādur Kodrah,—or
Bahādur Kūrdah,—or
Bahādur Kūr Farah,—a Zamīndār of
Bengal, 333 and n 6, 334, 399.
Bahādur, son of Sa'īd Badakhshī,—
Governor of Tirhut, 307.
Bahādur Shāh, title assumed by
Bahādur, son of Sa'īd Badakhshī,
307.
Bahādur, Sulṭān,—a usurper of the
sovereignty of Bengal, 18.
Bahāduru-d-dīn Sulṭān, son of Asfīd
Shāh Sulṭān. See under Bahādur
Shāh.
Bahār. See under Bihār.
Bahār-Jiv,—Rājah of the district of
Baglāna, 151.
Bahār Mal, Rājah,— Wakīl and Wazīr,
154, 158.
Bahat, the. See under the Behat.
Bahāu-d-dīn Bokhāri, Sayyid,—one of
the Amīrs of Akbar, 386.
Bahāu-d-dīn Naqshbandī, Khwājah,
72 n 4.
Bahāu-d-dīn Zahīr [Zuhair?],—an
Arab poet, 48 n 1.
Bahāu-d-dīn Zakaryāī of Multān,
Shaikh,—a Doctor of Law, 212.
Bahman,—the name of January in the
Ilāhī era, 397 and n 3.
Bahman-khur,—the 2nd day of Janu-
ary in the Ilāhī era of Akbar, 397
and n 3.
Bahraich, town of, 364.
Bahrām Mīrzā, son of Ismā'īl Çafawī,
402.
Bahroṇch, town of,—in Gujrāt, 151,
168, 173, 257, 285, 341, 342, 344,
373, 401.
Baḥr-u-Kuzah, the,—a work by
Sharīf of Āmul, 254 and n 4.
Baḥru-l-asmār, the,—or the Sea of
Tales,— name of a book, 415 and
n 2, 416.
Bairām Khān, the Khān Khānān, 1,
2, 3, 4, 7 n 5, 36, 41, 49 n 4, 216, 241
n 2, 243. See also under the Khān
Khānān and Muḥammad Bairām
Khān Turkomān.
Bait-ullāh,—the sacred mosque of
Mecca, 40 n 2.
Bajaunah, town of, 250. See also
under Bajūnah.
Bajhōrah, town of, 196 and n 3.
Bajūnah, town of, 183. See also un-
der Bajaunah.
Bajūr, district of, 401.
Bajwāra or Bajwārah,—a town in the
neighbourhood of the River Satlaj,
10, 51.
Bāk'hōr, town of, 242.
Bakhshī, office of,—the third of the
four highest officers of the empire,
70 n 4, 410, 412.
Bakkar, town of, 4, 93, 138, 179, 189,
207, 214, 224, 226, 287, 308, 309,
330, 359, 370, 379, 386. See also
under Bhakkar.
Bakkar-ites, the, 138.
Balbhūnd, the,—a river, 185.
Bāliyānah, village of, 168.
Balkh, 90, 217, 253, 362.
Balochīs, the. See under the Balūchīs.
Balqīs,—the Queen of Sheba, 12 and
n 8.
Balūchīs, the, 360, 364.
Balūchistān, 386.
Banāras or Banaros, 27, 103, 104, 179,
185, 418, 419, 420.
Bangālah, 417. See also under Bengāl.
Bāngarmou, town of, 141.
Bangash,—a district in the province
of Kaṛmān, 368.
Banjārah, signification of the term,
240 n 3.
Banjārās, the,—the caste of grain
merchants, 240 and n 3. See also
the next.
Banjārs, the,—carriers of grain, 182.
See also the above.
Banj'hū, Shaikh,—a musician and
disciple of Shaikh Adhan, 273.
Bāns Barēlī, town of, 156, 257.
Bānswāla or Bānswālah, town of, 249,
250.
Bāqī Khān, brother of Buzurg Adham
Khān, and son of Māhum Ankah,
Akbar's nurse, 59. See the next;
see also under Muḥammad Bāqī
Khān.
Bāqī Muḥammad Khān, 83. See the
above.
Bāqī Qāqshāl,—Governor of Kābul,
72, 90.
Bārah Mūlah,—a town on the confines
of Kashmīr, 398.
Baran, town of, 65.
Barār. See under Berār.
Bardwān, 196 and n 2.
Baree, Doāb of,—between the Ravee
and the Garra, in the Panjāb, 304
n 5.
Barelī, district of, 109.
Bārī, town of, 105.
Barj 'Alī,—a servant of the Khān
Zamān, 16.
Barmak family, the, 288 and n 1.
Barnagar,—a town in the district of
Rānā Udai Singh, 173 n 1.
Barōdah, district and town of, 68,
145, 146, 147, 257, 339, 340, 342,
344, 371, 373.
Basakhwān, town of, 254, 295.
Basantpūr, town of, 223, 224.
Basāwar, town of, 25, 26, 51, 63, 105,
168, 243, 250 and n 2, 259, 262, 276,
305 and n 4, 379, 380.
Baṣrah, town of, 333 n 4, 374 n 4.
Baṭḥā, name of the valley of Makkah,
324.
Bāyazīd, son of Sulaimān Kararānī,
the Afghān, ruler of Bengal, 167,
176.
Bāz Bahādur Khān, son of Suzāwal,
Shujāwal or Shujā' Khān Afghān,
Governor of Mālwah, 29, 42, 43, 47,
48.
Bāz Bahādur, son of Sharīf Muḥam-
mad Khān Atgah,—a military com-
mander, 256.
Bēd-i-Majnūn,—explanation of the
word, 398.
Bēg Nūrīn Khān,—one of the military
Amīrs, 82, 157, 424.
Bēgum, Imperial,—Chief wife of the
Emperor Akbar, 261, 307.
Bēgum Māh Jūjak. See under Māh
Jūjak Bēgum.
Behat, the,—the Jelum,—one of the
five rivers of the Panjāb, 359 and
n 2, 364, 398 and n 4. See also
under the Jelum.
Behra, town of, 92, 93.
Behronch. See under Bahroṇch.
Behut, the. See under the Behat.
Belfour's Translation of 'Alī Hazin,
35 n 3, 402 n 6 [see page xiii].
Benāres. See under Banāras.
Bengāl, 6 n 1, 12 and n 4, 18, 77 and n
1, 166, 174, 175, 176, 185, 195, 199,
200, 203, 220, 222, 249, 255, 275,
277, 278, 285, 287, 288, 289, 290,
293, 309, 320, 333, 368, 375, 399,
400.
Berār, district of, 354, 372, 373.
Bhagawan Dās, or
Bhagvān Dās, or
Bhagvant Dās, Rājah. See under
Rājah Bhagwān Dās.
Bhagwān Dās, the treasurer, 291.
Bhakkar, town of, 252. See also
under Bakkar.
Bhambar, town of, 396. See also
under Bhimbar.
Bhat'h, country of, 124.
Bhāwan, Shaikh,—a learned Brahman
from the Dakhin, 216, 424.
B'hekan, Shāh,—a Muḥammadan
saint, 342.
Bhīkan Basāwarī, Ḥājī, 25.
Bhimbar, town of, 381. See also
under Bhambar.
Bhoj, son of Rāī Surjan, the Gover-
nor of Chītor, 111.
Bhojpūr, parganna of, 95, 96, 97, 182.
Bhongoun, town of, 187.
Bhroj, town of, 110, 145, 146.
Bhunpat, son of Rājah Bhagvant Dās,
of Lāhor, 147 and n 1.
Bhuvan-patĩ,—signification of the
word, 147 n 1.
Bibliothèque Orientale, of D'Her-
belot, 266 n 1.
Bīdar, city of, 60.
Bidhī Chand, son of Jai Chand, the
Governor of Nagarkot, 165, 166.
Bihār, province of, 79, 159 n 1, 177
[see page v], 235, 244, 274, 285,
289, 290, 292, 320, 365, 375.
Bihārī Mall, Rājah,—Governor of the
Rājpūt State of Ambēr, 146 n 2.
See also under Pahārah Mall.
Bihāu-d-dīn. See under Bahāu-d-dīn.
Bīhrah, town of, 261 [see page ix].
Bījāgaṛh,—a fortress in Burhānpūr,
46, 276, 425.
Bījānagar, fortress of, 425. See the
above.
Bījāpūr,—a town in the Dak'hin, 257
n 2, 390, 425.
Bijlī Khān,—adopted son of Pahāṛ
Khān Sarwānī, 124 [see page iv].
Bijor,—a district of Afghānistān, 360.
Bīkānīr, State of, 33, 34, 137, 144.
Bikramājīt, title assumed by Hēmun
Baqqāl, 7. See under Hēmun.
Bikramājīt, title of Sarhor Hindī
Bengālī, 184 and n 2. See under
Sarhor Hindī Bengālī.
Bikramājīt, or Vikramaditya, the
Great Rājah of Hindūstān, 7, 186,
368.
Bīlan,—signification of the word, 348
and n 9.
Bīnāī, Shaikh,—the Physician of the
Imperial Court, 224.
Biography of the Poets, the,—of Mīr
'Alāu-d-daulah Qazwīnī, 108.
Bīrbar or Bīr Bar, Rājah, 159, 164,
165, 214, 268, 282, 297, 312, 322,
326, 345, 361, 362, 368, 369, 400.
See under Gadāī Brahmadās and
Vīra-vara.
Bīr Bīr, Rājah, 312. See under Bīr-
[bar, Rājah.
Bishn, or Vishnū, 265.
Bisti, or water-carrier,—origin of the
word, 242 n 4.
Biyāh, the,—one of the five rivers of
the Panjāb, 34 n 5, 38, 159, 161, 304
n 7.
Biyāna or Biyānah, fortress of, 4, 6,
21, 22, 25, 32, 105, 118, 183.
Bīzhan,—one of the heroes of the
Shāhnāmah, 47 and n 4.
Black Stone, the,—the Ḥajar-ul-aswad
of al-Ka'bah, 40 n 2.
Bland, Mr., 302 n 3.
Blochmann, 2 n 3, 7 n 5, 12 n 9, 23 and
n 4, 24 nn 2 and 3, 29 n 3, 33 n 1,
35 n 1, 42 n 4, 49 n 4, 54 n 1, 63 n 4,
64 n 5, 65 nn 3 and 5, 70 n 4, 72 n 3,
77 n 1, 79 n 1, 80 n 1, 82 n 2, 85 n 3,
93 n 1, 95 n 3, 148 n 1, 151 n 1, 154 n
3, 155 n 1, 159 n 1, 176 n 3, 190 n 2,
193 n 1, 194 n 1, 195 n 4, 196 nn 1
and 2, 205 n 1, 206 nn 3 and 5, 207
n 5, 212 n 1, 214 n 1, 218 n 1, 219 n
2, 223 n 1, 233 n 3, 239 n 6, 241 n 2,
244 n 4, 246 n 2, 247 n 2 [see page
ix], 254 nn 2 and 3, 276 n 2, 280 n 2,
282 n 4, 290 nn 1 and 2, 301 nn 2, 3
and 7, 308 n 2, 312 n 1, 314 nn 2
and 4, 315 n 1, 316 n 1, 317 n 3, 318
n 3, 320 n 1, 324 n 1, 332 n 4, 333 nn
1 and 3, 334 n 4, 337 n 1, 338 n 2,
340 n 3, 346 n 5, 348 nn 1 and 5, 349
n 2, 354 n 4, 355 nn 3 and 6, 368 n 3,
376 n 6, 377 n 1, 382 n 5, 388 n 1,
391 n 1, 394 n 4, 402 n 7, 405 n 1,
406 n 1, 407 n 3, 408 n 2, 409 nn 1,
2 and 4, 413 n 3, 418 nn 1 and 2,
420 n 4, 424, 425, 426.
Bokhāra. See under Bukhārā.
Bombay, 249 n 3.
Borchīn, town of, 196.
Bozrah, 20 and n 1, and error for the
town of Baṣrāh.
Brahma, Chief God of the Hindūs, 265.
Brahmans of Hind, the, 85, 164, 165,
216, 264, 269, 336, 368.
Brahmins, the. See the Brahmans.
Briggs, 9 n 1, 49 n 4, 60 n 4, 87 n 3,
144 n 5, 151 n 1.
Brinjārah, 240 n 3. Same as Ban-
jārah, which see.
Brinjarries, the, 240 n 3. Same as
the Banjārās, which see.
Bu-'alī or Abū 'Alī, name of Ibn-
Sīnā [Avecenna], 382 and n 3.
Budāgh Khān. See under Shāh
Budāgh Khān.
Buhail Khān,—name of a ghulām of
'Adalī, the Emperor of India, 25
and n 2.
Bukhārā, 172, 174, 278, 324 n 1, 358,
364, 366, 374.
Bu-naçar or Abū Naçr, name of al-
Fāryābī, 382 and n 2.
Burhāmu-l-mulk. See under Bur-
hānu-l-mulk.
Burhāmpūr. See under Burhānpūr.
Burhānu-l-mulk, King of Aḥmad-
nagar, 390, 403 and n 1, 416.
Burhānu-l-mulk,—an assumed name
of a certain impostor, 334.
Burhānpūr, 46, 68, 251, 257, 354, 372,
390.
Burton's Pilgrimage to El Medīnah
and Meccah, 121 n 2, 129 n 4, 134
n 2, 139 n 2, 246 n 5.
Butrīyah,—name of a Muḥammadan
sect, 425.
Buturāb, or Abū Turāb,—title of 'Alī,
son of Abi Ṭālib, 374 and n 2.
Buzurg Adham Khān, son of Māhum
Ankah. See under Adham Khān, 59.