Ma‘add ibn ‘Adnān, ancestor of the
Arabs of the Ḥijāz, 12 n 1.
Ma‘ārik, battle-fields, 622 and
n 6.
Ma‘arrī, Abu-l-‘Alā’ Al-—, a famous
Arab poet, 183 n 1.
Ma‘bar, country of, (Coromandel),
261 n 5, 265 and nn 5 and 6, 283,
286, 309.
Macan, Mr. Turner, editor of the
Shāh-nāmah, 88 n 1, 103 n 2, 116
n 5, 178 n 2, 207 n 7, 435 n 2.
Macbeth, Shakespere's, 115 n 4.
Machhlīgaṛh, township in Jaunpūr,
417 n 4.
Māchīn, country of, 147 and n 1.
Māchīn, son of Chīn, son of Japhet,
147 n 1.
Māchīwāra, an ancient city on the
banks of the Sutlej, in the Lūdhī-
āna District of the Panjāb, 380
n 2, 418 n 9, 590 and n 5.
Madā, one of the servants of Islem
Shāh, of the Afghān Sūr dynasty,
530.
Madad-i-ma‘āsh, rent-free land, 424
and n 3, 496 and n 1, 509 and
n 8, 520.
Madāin, the capital of the Sassanide
dynasty of Persia, near Baghdād,
572 n 1.
Madan Khān, or Qadr Khān, son of
Sulān Maḥmūd Khiljī, of Mālwa,
399 n 1.
Madārān, name of a place, 99 n 2.
Madārik, the sources from which are
sought the ordinances of the law,
429 and n 1.
Madda, the cross line over the Alif
mamdūhah, 634 and n 1.
Mādhūgaṛh, for the fortress of
Bāndhūgaṛh, 417 n 7.
Madrael, for the fortress of Mandrā-
yal (q. v.), 420 n 5.
Magadh, an ancient kingdom of
Hindūstān, 82 n 1, 132 n 3.
Maghlaī, Malik,—one of the Amīrs
of Sulān Jalālu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 233.
Maghrib, Sea of,—the Atlantic, 153
n 1.
Magians, the, 509 n 5.
Magic, notes on, 151 n 6, 459 n 2.
Mahāban, a fortress on the banks of
the river Jon, 24 n 3.
Mahābat Khān, the Wālī of Badāon,
under the Fīrūz Shāhī and Saiyyid
dynasties, 375, 377, 379, 384 and
n 2.
Maḥabbat, religious love or worldly
affection, 576 n 5, 577 n.
Mahābhārata, the, 185 n 1, 380 n 2.
Mahā Chīn, country of, 147 n 1.
Mahādeo,—or
Mahādeva, the chief of the Hindū
gods, 27 n 4, 256 n 4, 293 n 5, 454,
n 6.
Mahākāl, name of the idol temple of
Ujain, 95.
Māham Auaga or,—
Māhain Anka, one of the wet-nurses
of Akbar, 580 and n 5.
Mahandūrī river, the, 329 and n 7.
Maharashtra or Marhaṭ, country of
the Marhattas, 265 n 4.
Mahāwan, a township on the Jamna,
444. See also the next.
Mahāwun, a fortress on the banks of
the river Jon, 24 and n 3. See also
the above.
Mahdawī, Shaikh Mubārak of Nāgor
(q. v.), 516.
Mahdawīs, the,—the followers of
Shaikh ‘Alāī of Baiāna (q. v.),
520.
Mahdawīyah, the—a sect of Muslim
heretics, 626 and n 3.
Mahd-i-‘Irāq, sister of Sulān Sinjar,
and wife of Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn
Mas‘ūd, son of Sulān Ibrāhīm
Ghaznawī, 55 n 4.
Mahdī, the promised, 420 and n 8,
508, 512, 513, 514, 515 and n 4,
516, 517, 520, 522, 571 and nn 1
and 2, 589.
Mahdī Khwāja, Saiyyid, one of the
Amīrs of Bābar, 440, 444.
Mahdī, son of al-Manṣūr, the ‘Abbā-
side Khalīfah, 75 n.
Mahdī, Mīr Saiyyid Muḥammad of
Jaunpūr, 420 and n 8, 421.
Maḥdūda, Amīr, for Amīr Majdūd,
son of Sulān Mas‘ūd ibn Maḥmūd
Ghaznawī, 44 n 1.
Mah-dum, a kind of bird and a pi-
geon, 152 and n 3.
Maḥfil-shikan, or the assembly router,
a title of the famous controver-
sialist Niāmu-d-Dīn Auliyā, 71
n 2.
Maḥjaulī, a village in the Gorakhpūr
District on the banks of the Gan-
dak, 409 and n 5.
Maḥlīgaṛh, township in Jaunpūr, 417
and n 4.
Maḥmoud Gasnavī, 66 n 7. See under
Maḥmūd Ghaznawī.
Maḥmūd, one of the servants of Islem
Shāh, of the Afghān Sūr dynasty of
Dihlī, 530.
Maḥmūd ibn Amān Lamāī, author of
a Turkish romance on the loves of
Wāmiq and ‘Azrā, 40 n 1.
Maḥmūd of Badāon, Saiyyid,—brother
of Saiyyid Muḥammad, governor
of Badāon under Sulān Fīroz
Shāh Tughlaq, 335 n 6.
Maḥmūd of Bihār, Sulān, 435 n 7.
See under Sulān Muḥammad of
Bihār.
Maḥmūd Ghaznawī,—or
Maḥmūd of Ghaznīn, Sulān, son of
Sulān Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Sabuktigīn, 13
and n 1, 15, 16 and nn 1 and 2,
17, 18, 19, 20 and n 4, 23 and nn 2
and 3, 24, 25, 26, 27 and n 4, 28
and n 4, 29 and n 3, 30 and n 2,
31 n, 32 and n 1, 33 and n 2, 35, 36
n 6, 44, 45 n 3, 50, 64 and n 1, 66
n 7, 72, 256, 310, 365 n 8.
Maḥmūd of Gujrāt, Sulān, contem-
porary of Islem Shāh of the Sūr
dynasty of Dihlī, 533, 534.
Maḥmūd Ḥasan, Maliqu-sh-Sharq, one
of the Maliks of Mubārak Shāh of
the Saiyyid dynasty, 383 and n 11,
386, 387.
Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm Ghaznawī
Saiyyidu-s-Salāīn, 54 n 3.
Maḥmūd Khān, the son of ‘Ādil Khān,
son of Shīr Shāh Sūr, 477 and n 2,
490.
Maḥmūd Khān, son of Ghiyāu-d-Dīn
Tughlaq Shāh, 297.
Maḥmūd Khān Lodī, one of the Maliks
of Sulān Sikandar Lodī, 414 n 2,
422 n 4.
Maḥmūd Khān, gaandson of Sulān
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn of Mālwa, 424 n 6.
Maḥmūd, Khān-i-Khānān, son of
Sulān Jalālu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 231,
232, 233.
Maḥmūd Khiljī, Sulān of Mālwa, con-
temporary of the Lodī dynasty in
Dihlī, 398, 399, 424 and n 4, 425,
432, 433.
Maḥmūd, father of Mīr Khusrū, the
celebrated poet of Dihlī, one of
the Amīrs of Sulān Muḥammad
Tughlaq Shāh, 269 n 5.
Maḥmūd Mālwī, Sulān, 230. See
under Maḥmūd Khiljī, the Sulān
of Mālwa.
Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Sām ibn
Ḥusain, 78. See Ghiyāu-d-Dīn
Maḥmūd, son of Ghiyāu-d-Dīn
Muḥammad Sām Ghūrī.
Maḥmūd Sālim, a servant of Sulān
‘Alāu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 243.
Maḥmūd Shāh, 136. See Sulān
Nūṣiru-d-Dīn Maḥmūd Shāh ibn
Shamsu-d-Dīn Iyal-timish.
Maḥmūd Shāh, Sulān, ibn-i-Muḥam-
mad Shāh ibn Fīroz Shāh, of the
Tughlaq Shāhī dynasty of Dihlī,
348, 349, 350, 351, 354, 356, 357,
358 n 6, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365
and n 5, 366 and n 5, 367 and n,
368, 369, 370, 375, 376, 380.