Bahman, eleventh month of the
Persian year, 627 and n 1.
Bahmān, one of the Amīrs of Islem
Shāh Sūr, 517.
Bahmān Khān, a Niyāzī Afghān,
498.
Bahmanwā, ancient name of the
town of al-Manṣūrah in Sindh, 36
n 10.
Baḥr-i-‘Ajam, the,—a lexicographical
work, 114 n 2.
Baḥr-i-Jurjān, the Caspian, 153 n 1.
Baḥr-i-Khwārazm, the Lake Aral,
153 n 1.
Baḥr-i-Nīas, the Black Sea, 153 n 1.
Baḥr-i-Qulzum, the Red Sea, 169
n 1.
Baḥr-i-Ṭabarīya, the Dead Sea, 153
n 1.
Bahrah, town of, 128 n 3. Probably
same as Bhera (q. v.).
Bahraich, district, 349, 409, 411 n 2.
See also the next.
Bahrāij, district, 125, 126, 131. See
also the above and under Bharāij.
Bahrām, ancient King of Persia, 157
n 1, 436.
Bahrām Ība, Kishlū Khān, governor of
Multān and Uchh, adopted brother
of Sulān Ghiyāu-d-Dīn Tughlaq
Shāh, 292 and n 4, 293, 297 and
n 6, 304.
Bahrām Khān, son of Sulān Ghiyā­u-d-Dīn Tughlaq Shāh, 297.
Bahrām Khān, governor of Sunar­gānw under Sulān Muḥammad
Tughlaq Shāh, 308.
Bahrām Khān Turkbacha, ruler of
Sāmāna, contemporary of Maḥmūd
Shāh of Dihlī, 362, 365.
Bahrām Mīrzā, brother of Shāh
Ṭahmāsp, King of Persia, 569.
Bahrām Shāh, Sulān, ibn Mas‘ūd ibn
Sulān Ibrāhīm Ghaznawī, 55, 56,
57, 58, 60.
Bahrām Shāh, son of Sulān Nāṣiru-
d-Dīn Qabāchah (q. v), 90.
Bahrām Shāh, son of Sulān Shamsu-
d-Dīn Iyal-timish. See under
Mu‘izzu-d-Dīn Bahrām Shāh.
Bahrām Ullah, 297 n 6. For Bahrām
Ība (q. v.).
Baḥrī, Malik, of the Maliks of Abū
Bakr Shāh, Sulān of Dihlī, 344.
Bahrsūr, a halting-place opposite to
Baiāna, 518.
Baḥru-l-Jawāhir, a work on medicine,
5 n 3, 30 n 2, 42 n, 49 n 2, 101 n 1,
117 n 2, 118 n, 146 n 6, 148 n 4,
161 n 3, 167 n 2, 226 n 5, 319 n 4.
Bahwa Lūhānī, Mīyān, Governor of
Baiāna, one of the Maliks of Islem
Shāh, 518, 519.
Baiāna, district and town, 359, 360,
378, 379, 385, 386, 387, 392, 395
and n 3, 400, 405, 414, 418, 419,
424, 443, 445, 452, 487, 488, 497,
507, 509, 512, 513, 518, 519, 520,
526, 541, 549, 551 and n 8, 553,
597, 598. See also under Bhiāna
and Bīāna.
Baiāna, fortress of, 549, 551.
Baihaqī, the Historian, 32 n, 36 nn 8
and 9, 37 n 2, 46 n 2.
Bairām Dev, Rājā of Hindūstān, con­temporary of Sulān Maḥmūd of
Ghaznīn, 28 and n 4. See under
Brahma Dev.
Bairām Dev, son of Rāi Harsingh of
Itāwa, contemporary of Maḥmūd
Shāh, grandson of Sulān Fīroz
Shāh, 361.
Bairām Dev, the Rājā of Kola, con­temporary of Sulān Jalālu-d-Dīn
Khiljī, 231.
Bairām Khān, Khān-i-Khānān, one of
the great Amīrs of Humāyūn and
Akbar, 447, 567, 568, 569, 573, 578,
588, 589, 590 and n 5, 591, 594,
595, 597, 622.
Bairām Khān Turkbacha, ruler of
Sāmāna, under Masnad-i-‘Ālī Khiẓr
Khān of Dihlī, 365, 378.
Baitālī, township of,—on the banks of
the Ganges, 360 and n 3, 375, 377,
379, 407 n 1. See also Betālī.
Baitarānī river, the,—in Orissa, 125
n 3.
Bāitigīn, 48 n 4, for Bārtagīn, the
Ḥājib-i-Buzurg (q. v.).
Baiẓā, a village of Shīrāz in Persia,
6 n 4.
Baiẓāwī, Qāẓī, author of the Anwāru-t-
Tanzīl, a celebrated commentary
on the Qur'ān, and of the Niāmu-t-
Tawārīkh, 6 and n 4, 10 n 3, 34 and
n 8, 45 and n 2. 52, 56 n 1, 62 and
nn 3 and 4, 63, 64 n 1.
Bajj, fort of,—in Majbaristān, 34 and
n 6.
Bajlāna, a place on the Ganges,
379.
Bajwāra, town, 380 and n 2, 391 and
n 5, 497, 520.
Bakhtyār Khiljī, Malik, 85 n 1. See
under Muḥammad Bakhtyār Ghūrī
or Khiljī.
Bakkar, town, 559 and n 5, 560, 561
and n 11, 562, 566 and n 13, 567,
574, 580. See also under Bukkur
and Bhakkar.
Baksar, country of, 408 and n 5.
Baktūzūn, one of the Amīrs of ‘Abdu-l-
Malik ibn Nūḥ Sāmānī, King of
Khurāsān, 16 and n 2.
Balārām, town, 346.
Balarwān, fortress of, in Gharjistān,
63 n 1.
Balban, the elder, 124. See Malik
‘Izzu-d-Dīn Balban-i-Kashlū Khān.
Balban, Sulān. See under Ghiyāu-d-
Dīn Balban.
Balban, the younger, Malik and after­wards Sulān Ghiyāu-d-Dīn (q. v),
121 and n 7, 122.
Balbanī Amīrs, known also as the
Ghiyāī Amīrs, the partisans of
Sulān Ghiyāu-d-Dīn Balban, 232,
233.
Balfour, 162 n 3.
Balkātigīn, the slave of Alptigīn,
Governor of Ghaznī, 14 n 1.
Balkh, 16, 17, 20, 23, 27 and n 1, 30,
35, 37 and n 7, 38, 44, 46 n 1, 47,
445, 581, 582 and n 7, 585, 597
n 5.
Balkh, the river of,—the Jaiḥūn, 27
n 1, 582 n 7.
Bālnāt, hill country of, 474. See
also the next.
Bālnāth, mountains of, 22 and n 5.
See also the above.
Bāmiān, district and town of,—in
Afghānistān, 46 and n 1, 56.
Banāras, 416, 520. Banārasī, 339 n
6. See Bārānasī.
Banas, the,—a tributary of the
Chambal river, 385 n 3.
Banātu-n-Na‘sh, the constellation
Ursa Major, 198 and n 2.
Banbhar, town, 530 and n 3.
Banda, town, 417 n 7.
Bāndhū, fortress of, 417 n 7.
Bāndhūgaṛh, fortress, 417 and n 7.
Bangāla, 79, 82, 86, 135, 222, 325,
417, 457, 458, 460, 461, 470, 472,
507, 552, 554, 573. See also under
Bengal.
Bangālīs, the, 470.
Bāngarmau, township of, 434.
Bang-Matī river, 84 n. Called also
the Beg-Matī (q. v.).
Banhar, town, 530 n 3.
Bānhbana, Rāi, brother's son of the
Jām of Thatha, contemporary of
Sulān Fīroz Shāh, 332 n 6, 333
n 4.
Baniān, town, 95 n 8, 128 n 1.
Banjāras, grain sellers, 477.
Bānswāla, town, 495.
Banū Tamīm Anṣārī, early Muḥam­madan sovereigns of Sind, 13 n.
Bapāk, 415 n 5, for Prayāg, the
ancient name of Allahabad.
Baqā'ī, Maulānā, a learned man of
the time of Bābar, 449.
Bāqī-i-Khaīb, one of the learned
poets of the time of Sulān Jalālu-
d-Dīn Khiljī, 245.
Barādarān-i-akhyāfī, brothers by the
same mother but a different father,
466 n 7.
Barādarān-i-a‘yānī, uterine brothers,
466 n 7.
Baran, district and town, 89 and n 4,
121 n 5, 226, 227, 230 n 1, 250, 357,
359, 364, 396. See also the next.
Baran, fortress of, 24 n 1. See
Barnah.
Bārānasī, town, 329 and n 6. See
under Banāras.