Dabarān, Ad-, the Hyades, in the
constellation Taurus, 367 and n 3.
Dabho'ī, a district of Gujrāt, 313 and
n 5, 314.
Dabīr-i-Falak, the scribe of the sky,
a name of Mercury, 195 n 5.
Dabsī, 584 n 4, for the poet Waisī,
a poet of the time of Humāyūn.
Dacca, town, 186 n 6.
Dādbeg, Chief Justice, 220 and n 4.
Dadhyanch, the horse-headed monster of Indian Mythology, 294 n 4.
Daftarī, a scribe or clerk, 499 and n 9.
Dagger, first invented in Hindūstān,
539.
Dāgh, a brand, 496 n 8.
Dāghī system, instituted by Shīr
Shāh, 496 and n 8.
Dagla or Dajla, the river Tigris, 394
n 5.
Dāhir, Rājā, contemporary of Muḥammad Qāsim the conqueror of Sind,
12 n 2, 13 n.
Dahra, a bill-hook or reaping hook,
102 n 5.
Dai, tenth month of the Persian year,
280 and n 4, 370 and n 1, 627 and
n 1, 629.
Dailam, province of,—the Persian
‘Irāq, 30 n 1.
Daityas, the,—of Hindū mythology,
163 n 2.
Dajjāl, Anti-christ, 278 and n 4,
279 n, 369 and n 3, 490 and
n 5.
Dajla or Dagla, the river Tigris, 394
and n 5.
Ḍāk-chaukī, post-horses, 292.
Dāk-runners of the East, 621 n 2.
Dakhan, the, 433 n 3, 533, 534,
557. See also under Dakkan and
Deccan.
Dakkan, the, 312, 313, 517, 625, 632,
635, 636. See also under Dakhan
and Deccan.
Dalāil-i-Fīrūzī of ‘Izzu-d-Din Khālid
Khānī, a work on Astrology, 332
and n 2.
Dalāil-i-Fīroz Shāhī, the, 332 n 2.
See the Dalāil-i-Fīrūzī.
Dalla, a weasel or stoat, 158 n 4.
Dalmau', a town on the Ganges, 415
and n 7.
Dalmūr, district of, 349 n 2.
Dalpūr, town, 415 n 7.
Damaghān, a city of Khurāsān, 34
n 3.
Damascus, 12 and n 2.
Damascus, Mosque of, 12 n 2.
Damrela, district of, 217 and n 3.
Damyak, a village beyond the Indus
on the road to Ghaznīn, 72 and
n 3.
Dandāngān, a town in the vicinity of
Merv in Khurāsān, 43 n 3.
Dangay, a district of Bundelkhand,
25 n 5.
Dāniāl, son of Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn,
King of Bangāla, contemporary of
Sulān Sikandar Lodī, 417.
Daniel, Book of, 394 n 5.
Danūj or Dhanūj, Rāi of Sunārgānw,
contemporary of Sulān Ghiyāu-d-
Dīn Balban, 186 and n 6.
Daœ, the,—name of an ancient people
of Central Asia, 23 n 1.
Dārā, one of the ancient Kings of
Persia, 39.
Darius III, King of Persia, contemporary of Alexander the Great,
332 n.
Darmash Khān, Governor of Khurāsān under Shāh Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī,
King of Persia, 449 and n 5.
Darra, a city of Hindūstān, 52 and
n 1.
Darra Gaz, in Khurāsān, 582 n 7.
Dārū-i-Chashm (eye medicine), 52.
Dāru-l-Khilāfat of Egypt, Cairo,
328.
Darwāza-i-Baghdādī, at Dihlī, 397.
See also under the Baghdād
Gate.
Daryā Khān, son of afar Khān,
Governor of Gujrāt under Sulān
Fīroz Shāh, 333 and n 11.
Daryā Khān Lodī, one of the Amīrs
of Muḥammad Shāh of the Sayyid
dynasty, 398.
Daryā Khān Luhānī, Governor of
Bihār, under the Lodī dynasty,
435, 467 and n 12.
Daryā-i-Chīn, the Sea of China, i.e.,
the Indian Ocean, 153 n 1.
Daryā-i-Maghrib, the Atlantic Ocean,
153 n 1.
Daryā-i-Rūm, the Mediterranean Sea,
153 n 1.
Dās, a bill-hook or reaping hook,
102 n 5.
Datura, note on, 535 n 2.
Dā'ūd Afghān, Malik, one of the
Maliks of Sulān Fīroz Shāh
Tughlaq, 335 nn 8 and 9.
Dā'ūd Khān, one of the Amīrs of
Sulān Ibrāhīm Lodī, 439.
Dā'ūd, Maulānā, author of a Manawī
in Hindī, contemporary of Sulān
Fīroz Shāh, 333.
Dā'ūd, son of Naṣr, son of Shaikh
Ḥamīd Lodī, the renegade ruler of
Multān, contemporary of Sulān
Maḥmūd of Ghaznīn, 19 and n and
n 5, 21.
Dā'ūd, the Turkoman, contemporary
of Sulān Mas‘ūd, son of Sulān
Maḥmūd of Ghaznīn, 37 n 7, 38,
47, 61 n 5.
Dā'ūd Za'i Afghāns, the, 501.
Daulatābād, in the Deccan, 270 n 6,
271 and n 6, 272 and n, 274 and
n 6, 303, 304, 305, 309, 310, 313,
314, 316, 318. Originally called
Deogīr (q. v.), or Deogarh, capital
of the Yadava kingdom.
Daulat Khān, the new Muslim, a
protégé of the Lūhānī faction, one
of the Amīrs of ‘Adlī, 537. See
Daulat Khān Lūhānī.
Daulat Khān Ajyāra, son of Sazāwal
Khān, one of the Amīrs of Islem
Shāh, 527, 531, 532 and n 2.
Daulat Khān, son of Budhū, one of
the Chief Commanders of Sulān
Ibrāhīm Lodī, 467 n 6.
Daulat Khān Lodī, Governor of
Sāmāna, one of the Amīrs of Sulān
Maḥmūd of the Tughlaq Shāhī
dynasty, 364, 365, 367 n, 375,
380.
Daulat Khān Lodī, one of the Maliks
of the Lodī dynasty, 435, 436, 437,
438 and n 5.
Daulat Khān Lūḥānī, one of the
Amīrs of ‘Adlī, 539 and n 11. See
Daulat Khān, the new Muslim.
Daulat Khān, Shāhzāda, Governor of
the fortress of Rantanbhūr under
Sulān Maḥmūd of Mālwa and
Sulān Sikandar Lodī, 425.
Daulat Yār of Kanpila, Malik, 363.
Darveshpūr, town, 417.
David of Scripture, 5.
Da‘wah, invocation of the attributes
of God, 445 n 6, 459 n 2. See the
next.