Bhāgīrathī, the 82 n 4.
Bhaka, a servant of Shīr Khān, afterwards Shīr Shāh Sūr, 468.
Bhakārī, Shaikh, son of Shaikhu-l-
Hadīyah, contemporary of Sulān
Sikandar Lodī, 429 and n 5.
Bhakkar, town, 464. See under
Bakkar and Bukkur.
Bhangar, fortress of, 71 and n 2. See
also under Bhankar and Bahankar.
Bhankar, fortress of, 90. See also
under Bhangar and Bahankar.
Bharāij, district, 132. See under
Bahraich and Bahrāij.
Bhartpūr, district, 134 n 1, 366 n.
Bhasiyāna, country of, 80 and n 5.
Bhaṭ, fort of, 355 and n 3. See
Bhatnīr.
Bhāta or Bhāṭa, a place, 19 n 4. See
under Bhātia.
Bhâti, a town situated between the
arms of the Mihrān (Indus), 36
n 10.
Bhatī tribe of Hindūs, the, 66 and
n 2.
Bhātia, a place in the vicinity of
Multān, 19 and n 4, 66 n 2.
Bhatnīr, town, 355 nn 1 and 3.
Bhatpar, 355 n 3, for Bhatnīr (q. v.).
Bhatta, town, 408 n 7, 485 and n 9,
489, 542, 544, 553.
Bhatta, Kingdom of, 544.
Bhatta, Amīrs of, 485.
Bhatwāra, a place, 405.
Bhawan, a place, 20 n 5.
Bhayāna, country of, 80 n 5. See
under Bhiāna, Bīāna and Baiāna.
Bhera, a place on the left bank of the
Jhelum under the Salt Range, 19
n 4. See under Bahrah.
Bhiāna, territory of, 80 n 5. See
under Bhayāna, Bīāna and Baiāna.
Bhīlsā, a town on the Betwā in
Mālwā, 95 and n 3, 236 and n 3.
Bhīm, a hero of Indian mythology,
20 n 5, 21.
Bhīm, town of, 20 n 5.
Bhīm Dev, Rāi, ruler of Gujrāt, contemporary of Sulān Mu‘izzu-d-Dīn
Sām Ghūrī, 66, 71.
Bhīm Rāi Dev, 71. See under Bhīm
[Dev.
Bhīm, Rāi, the chief of Jammoo, contemporary of Sulān Mubārak Shāh
of Dihlī, 383 and n 3.
Bhīm Sen, Rājā, founder of the town
of Bhongāon, 386 n 3.
Bhīmnagar, fortress of, 20 and n 5.
Bhodal, township of, 547 n 4.
Bhojpūr, fortress of, 185 and n 1.
Bhongāon, a town in the Mainpūrī
district, 386 nn 3 and 4. See also
under Bhūngānw.
Bhūgāon, 386 n 3. See the above and
also Bhūngānw.
Bhūhar, town, 360.
Bhūkānūr, town, 386 n 3.
Bhūngānw,—or
Bhūngāon, in the Mainpūrī district,
386 and n 3, 403, 431.
Bhurayee, town, 414 n 3.
Biāh, the, 23 n 3, 126, 130, 251, 353,
381, 389, 391, 392, 412 n 2. Called
the Kālī Pānī (q. v.), and the Bīās.
Bīās, the, 325 n 3. Same as the river
Biāh (q. v.).
Bībī Bā'ī, daughter of Niām Khān
Sūr and wife of Islem Shāh, 535.
Bībī Khūnza, Malika-i-Jahān, chief
wife of Sulān Ḥusain Sharqī, 409
and n 2.
Bībī Rāchī, mother of Sulān Muḥammad Shāh Sharqī of Jaunpūr, 403
n 8.
Bible, the, 394 n 5.
Bibliotheca Indica, the, 127 n 2, 142
n 1, 315 n 7, 329 n 3.
Bidāgh Khān Qizilbāsh Afshār, one of
the Amīrs of Shāh Ṭahmāsp of
Persia, 572 and nn 7 and 8, 575
and n 3, 578.
Bīdar, town,—in Haidarābād, Deccan,
299 and n 3, 311, 312, 314. Called
also Bedar.
Bidaspes, the, = the Jhelam river, the
Vitastā of Sanskrit writers, 23 n 3.
Bihand or Waihind, a place on the
western bank of the Indus, 20 n 1.
Bihār, 185, 328, 329, 338, 348, 416
and nn 12 and 13, 417, 434, 435,
436, 444, 446, 456, 457, 467, 469,
470, 471 and n 1, 521.
Bihār Khān, one of the Amīrs of the
Lodī dynasty, 443.
Bihār Khān, A‘am Humāyūn Sirwānī,
Governor of Handīya under Islem
Shāh Sūr, 517, 521, 541. See Bahār
Khān.
Bihār Khān, son of Daryā Khān
Luḥānī, Sulān of Bihār, 467. See
Sulān Muḥammad of Bihār. Elsewhere called Bahādur Khān (q. v.).
Bihishtī, author of a commentary on
the Ṣaḥāif, 427 n 1.
Bijlāna, a place on the Ganges, 231.
Bijnor, hills of, 130 and n 2.
Bikanīr, town of, 69 n 2.
Bilāl, the Abyssinian mu'aẕẕin of
Muḥammad, 601 n.
Al-Bilāẕurī, author of the Futūḥu-l-
Buldān, 11 n 3.
Bilūchistān, 48 n 4, 420 n 9.
Bin, township of, 526. See also Bin
Bāū.
Bīnā Pānīpatī, Shaikh, a famous
surgeon, 366 n 3.
Bināyek Deo, Rājā of Dholpūr,—contemporary of Sulān Sikandar Lodī,
419 n 4, 420 and n 2.
Bināyik Deo, same as the above
(q. v.).
Bin Bāū, in the Panjāb, 523, 525.
See also Bin.
Bīṛā, note on, 303 n.
Birjīs, the planet Jupiter, 630 and n 2.
Birnī Kheṛa, town, 327 and n 3.
Bīrūnī. See under Albīrūnī.
Bīsal, fortress, 383 n 3.
Bīsh, aconite, 172 n 2.
Bismi-llāh, in the name of God, used
at the beginning of all works, 428
and n 4.
Bitter Lakes, the, 169 n 1.
Bīzhan, son of Geo and nephew of
Rustam, in the Shāhnāmah of
Firdausī, 116 n 5, 180 and n 2, 181
n 1.
Blackwater, the,—known as the
Kālāpānī (q. v.), 360 and n 3, 378
and n 1, 386, 411.
Bland, On the Persian game of chess,
103 n 1, 115 n, 479 n 7.
Blochmann, 8 n 3, 19 n, 67 n 3, 353
n 1, 357 n 4, 366 n 3, 408 n 1, 415
n 4, 417 n 8, 420 nn 8 and 9, 421
n 8, 422 n 2, 424 n 3, 432 n 7, 449
n 2, 464 n 5, 476 n 5, 479 n 5, 496
nn 1 and 8, 498 n 3, 499 n 3, 501
n 7, 503 n 3, 506 n 2, 507 n 1, 508
nn 7 and 8, 509 n 8, 515 n 4, 523
n 5, 546 nn 3 and 7, 557 n 1, 567
n 3, 568 n 6, 571 n 9, 580 n 5, 584
n 3, 588 n 4, 590 n 5, 592 n 9, 597
n 5, 605 n 1, 609 n 5, 610 n, 611
n 3, 623 n 6, 626 n 3.
Blue, the customary mourning colour
in Persia, 209 and n 3.
Bohar, a place in the vicinity of
Hānsī, 248 and n 4.
Bokhārā. See under Bukhārā.
Bombay edition of the Atash-Kada,
584 n 3.
Bombay text of the Tārīkh-i-Firishta,
72 n 2, 205 n 2, 304 n 1, 307 n,
325 n 3, 326 n 2, 327 n 3, 330 n 6,
334 n 3, 339 n 2, 342 n 3, 345 n 2,
350 n 3, 355 n 4, 360 n 3, 365 n 2,
379 n 2, 385 n 1, 393 n 3, 400 n,
401 n 2, 402 nn 1 and 5, 403 nn 4
and 5, 404 nn 2 and 5, 406 nn 1
and 5, 410 nn 1 and 4, 411 n 2,
412 n 2, 413 n 13, 415 n 7, 422 n 3,
424 nn 2 and 4, 425 n 6, 432 nn 3
and 7, 433 n 3, 438 n 3, 466 n 5,
478 nn 7 and 8, 488 n 5, 490 n 4,
537 n 2, 559 nn 6 and 8, 560 n 2,
561 n 2, 564 nn 6 and 8, 566 n 13,
567 n 9, 573 n 3, 579 n 8, 583 n 3,
609 n 5, 625 n 3.
Bost, district, 15 n.
Bost, town,—on the banks of the
Hendmand, 15 n. See under Bust.
Brahma Dev, one of the Rājās of
Hindūstān at the time of Sulān
Maḥmūd of Ghaznī, 28 n 4.
Brahmanputr, the, 84 and n 1, 186
n 6. Called also the Brahmkadī.
Brahmans, the, 27, 28, 331, 332, 509
n 5.
Brahmaputra, the, 84 n 1. See the
Brahmanputr.
Brahmkadī, the, 84. See under the