Barānghār, right wing of a Turkish
army, 439 n 4.
Baranī, the Historian. See under
Ẓiāu-d-Dīn Barnī.
Barāwar bacha. See under Ḥasan,
Barāwar bacha.
Barāwar tribe, a family of servile
position in Gujrāt, 274, 285, 288.
See also the next.
Barāwas, the, 289. Same as the
Barāwar family (q. v.).
Bārbak, chief attendant of a darbār,
501 and n 6.
Bārbak Bektars Sulānī, Malik, one
of the Maliks of Sulān Ghiyāu-d-
Dīn Balban, 186 n 5.
Bārbak Shāh, son of Sulān Buhlūl
Lodī, 409 and n 8, 411 n 2, 412 n 2,
413 and n 13, 414 n 1, 415.
Barchha, a small spear, 479 and n 2.
Bardār, hills of, 130 n 2.
Bardat, governor of the fortress of
Bartah in Hindūstān, contemporary
of Sulān Maḥmūd of Ghaznīn, 24
n 1.
Bardhan, town, 83, 84 n.
Bardhan Koṭ, town of, 84 n.
Bareilly, 364 n 4. See also the next.
Baréli, town of, 71 n 2. See also
Bareilly.
Baṛeṛī, pargana of, 424 n 3.
Bārī, township in the Sarkār of
Āgra, 410, 425 and n 4.
Barmazīd Kor, one of the Amīrs of
Shīr Shāh, 490 and n 4.
Barnah, fortress of, 24 and n 1.
Same as Baran (q. v.).
Barnī, the Historian. See under
Ẓiāu-d-Dīn Barnī.
Baroda, district, 313, 314.
Barqa‘ī, Ḥājī, a court officer of Sulān
Muḥammad Tughlaq Shāh, 311, 315.
Barsine, wife of Alexander the Great,
332 n.
Bartagīn, the Ḥājib-i-Buzurg,—one
of the Amīrs of Sulān Maudūd
Ghaznawī, 48 and n 4. See also
under Bāshtigīn.
Bartah, fortress of, 24 n 1.
Barūj (Broach), 311 and n 3.
Barūja, town, 358 n 6.
Barwat, Governor of the fortress of
Barnah, in Hindūstān, a contem­porary of Sulān Maḥmūd of Ghaz­nīn, 24 and n 1.
Bāsad Khān, one of the Amīrs of
Sulān Maḥmūd, the grandson of
Sulān Fīroz Shāh, of Dihlī, 364.
Basāwar, town, 349, 445, 475, 479,
512, 549.
Bashīr, the Sirdar, an adherent of the
house of Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn Khiljī,
273.
Bāshtigīn Ḥājib, one of the Amīrs of
the Ghaznavides, 48 n 4, 50 n 1.
See under Bartagīn.
Baṣra, town of,—in Arabian ‘Irāq,
12 n 1, 458 n 3.
Basudev (Vasudeva), one of the Hindū
gods, 24 and n 6.
Basūlī, a place, 335 n 10.
Bathindah, town of, 69 n 2. See also
under Batindah.
Batīl, 618 n 2.
Batindah, called also Tabarhindah,
the capital of Jaipāl,—the ruler of
Hindūstān at the time of Maḥmūd
Ghaznawī, 19 n 2, 20 n 1. See also
Bathindah.
Bāinī sect, the,—a sect of Muḥam­madan heretics, 22 and n 3.
Al-Bāinīah, 22 n 3. Same as the
above (q. v.).
Batlāhī, town, 334 and n 5.
Batūl, the offset of a palm-tree, 622
n 4.
Al-Batūl, a name of Fāimah, daughter
of the Prophet, 622 n 4.
Bāward, a city of Khurāsān, 29 and
n 6, 30, 42, 43. Called also Abī­ward (q. v.).
Bayāk, 415 n 5, for Prayāg, the ancient
name of Allahabad.
Bāyazīd Anṣārī, also called Pīr Roshan,
founder of a Ṣūfī sect, called the
Roshāniyyah or enlightened, 58
and n 5.
Bāyazīd A‘am Humāyūn, nephew of
Sulān Buhlūl Lodī, 409, 410 and
n 1.
Bāyazīd, Khwājā, eldest son of Sulān
Buhlūl Lodī, 401 n 4, 410 n 1, 414.
Bāyazīd, Shaikh, the brother of
Muṣafā Farmalī,—one of the
Afghān Amīrs who joined Humāyūn,
444.
Bāyazīd, one of the Amīrs of Sulān
Maḥmūd, son of Sulān Sikandar
Lodī, 471 and n 4, 472.
Bayley, History of Gujarāt, 17 n 4,
71 n 3, 264 n 6, 313 n 5, 357 n 3,
452 n 6, 454 nn 1 and 7, 455 n 1,
458 n 6.
Bāz Bahādur, son of Sazāwal Khān,
ruler of Mālwa, contemporary of
‘Adlī, 554, 557.
Bazāna, town of, 27 n 4.
Bazghand, fortress of, 44 and n 4.
Beale's Dictionary of Oriental Bio-
graphy, 32 n 1, 33 n 1, 38 n 4, 53 n,
54 n 2, 55 n 3, 58 n 5, 99 n 3, 133
n 2, 134 n 4, 158 n 3, 187 n 2, 233
n 4, 236 n 2, 272 n 1, 279 n 3, 297 n,
298 nn 2 and 4, 332 n 2, 339 n 4,
449 nn 2 and 3, 450 n 5, 507 n 2,
533 nn 1 and 6, 571 n 9, 584 n and
n 3, 624 n 6, 633 n 1.
Beāna, town of, 80 n 5. See under
[Baiāna.
Bedar, a town of the Deccan, 299 n 3.
See also under Bīdar.
Bedr, battle of,—the Prophet's prin­cipal military exploit, 74 n 2, 216 n.
More correctly Badr.
Beerbhoom, the Rājā of, 329 n 9.
Beg Tughdī, one of the generals of
Sulān Mas‘ūd, son of Sulān Maḥ­mūd Ghaznawī, 43. See under
Tughdī Beg.
Begam, the Queen-consort of Humā­yūn, mother of Akbar, 560, 566,
568 and n 7. See Ḥamīda Bānū.
Beghū, the Turkomān, chief of the
Turkomāns, contemporary of Sulān
Mas‘ūd, son of Maḥmūd Ghaznawī,
38 and n 3, 39.
Beghū Malik Shāh. See the above.
Beg-Matī river, the, 84 n 1. Called
also the Bang-Matī (q. v.).
Behār, capital of the ancient kingdom
of Magadh, 82 and n 1. See under
Bihār.
Behāristān, of Maulānā ‘Abdu-r-
Raḥmān Jāmī, 32 n 2.
Behāt, the,—old name of the Jhilam,
one of the five rivers of the Panjāb,
44 n 6, 128 n 3, 500, 503. Spelt
also the Behat.
Behnbur, town, 530 n 3.
Behzād, Malik, Governor of Mulān
under Sulān Muḥammad Tughlaq
Shāh, 305.
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Poesie der
alten Arabe, Nöldeke's, 99 n 6.
Bejī Rāi, Rājā of Bhātia, contem­porary of Sulān Maḥmūd of
Ghaznīn, 19.
Bekasī, Maulānā, a poet of the time
of Humāyūn, 453 and n 7.
Belnāt mountains, 22 n 5. See under
Balnāt and Balnāth.
Bengal, 81 n 2, 82 nn 3 and 4, 135
n 1, 299, 300, 303 n, 345 n 2, 466
n 6, 540. See also under Bangāla
and Bengāla.
Bengāla, 79, 82, 86. See also under
Bangāla and Bengal.
Ber, fruit of the ‘Unnāb tree in
Hindustānī, 117 n 2.
Beraisen, a mistaken reading of bi
Rāsain, i.e., the two Rāses (q. v.),
326 n.
Berenice, an ancient port of the Red
Sea, 169 n 1.
Betālī, on the Ganges, 185 n 1. See
under Patiālī and Baitālī.
Betel-leaf, note on, 302 n 6.
Betle-chewer's cancer, 303 n.
Betwā river, the, 95 n 3.
Beveridge's the Emperor Akbar, 58
n 5.
Bezoar stone, 118 n.
Bhadāulī, one of the dependencies of
Sakīṭ, 410 n 4.
Bhadauriahs, the, 408 n 1. See the
Bhadaurīs.
Bhadaurīs, the,—the inhabitants of
the Bhadāwar district, 408 and n 1.
Bhadāwar, a district S. E. of Āgra,
408 n 1.
Bhadāwah, town, 410 n 4.
Bhagat, the,—a Hindū caste of loose
people, 557 and n 9.
Bhagatiya, the,—a Hindū caste of
loose people, 557 n 9.