Masīḥu-d-Dajjāl, Antichrist, 490 n 5.
See also the next.
Masīḥu-l-Kaẕẕāb, Antichrist, 278 n 4.
See also the above.
Māsik, constant as applied to the
pulse, 532 n 7.
Masnad-i-‘Ālī Saiyyid Khiẓr Khān,
the first of the Saiyyid dynasty of
Dihlī, 352, 375, 376. See under
Khiẓr Khān Masnad-i-‘Ālī.
Massagetæ, an ancient people of
Central Asia, 23 n 1.
Mas‘ūd Beg, metre of,—a kind of
prosodical metre, 426.
Mas‘ūd Khān Ghilzāī, one of the
Afghān Amīrs of Sher Shāh Sūr,
542, 544.
Mas‘ūd, Sulān, ibn Sulān Ibrāhīm
Ghaznawī, called by the title of
‘Alāu-d-Dīn, 55 and nn 2 and 4.
Mas‘ūd, Sulān, son of Sulān Maḥ-
mūd of Ghaznīn, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35,
36 and n 9, 37, 38, 42, 43, 44 and
nn 1 and 2, 45 and nn 2 and 3, 46,
47 n 2, 50, 53 and n, 54, 61 n 5.
Mas‘ūd, Sulān, son of Sulān Maudūd
ibn Mas‘ūd Ghaznawī, 49, 50 and
n 1.
Mas‘ūd Sa‘d Salmān Jurjānī, known
sometimes as Hamadānī, a famous
poet of Jurjān, contemporary of
Sulān Mas‘ūd and Sulān Ibrāhīm
Ghaznawī, 52 and n 5, 54 and n 1,
60.
Mas‘ūdī, the celebrated Arab Geo-
grapher and Historian, 157 n 1.
Matar Sen Kahtarīya, Rājā, the ruler
of Sambhal at the time of the
Afghān Sūr dynasty of Dihlī, 545.
Mathew's Mishkātu-l-Maṣābīḥ, 150
n 2, 200 n, 293 n, 302 n 2, 412 n 1,
509 n 3.
Mathī Khān,—or
Mathīn Khān, one of the courtiers of
Humāyūn, 624 and n 2.
Mathra, a sacred city of the Hindūs,
24 and n 6.
Mala‘u-l-Anwār, one of the poetical
works of Mīr Khusrū, the famous
poet of Dihlī, 270 and n 1.
Maudūd, Sulān, son of Sulān Mas‘ūd
ibn Maḥmūd Ghaznawī, 37, 43, 45 n
3, 46, 47 and n 2, 48, 49, 50 and n 1.
Maulānā Baqā'ī, a learned man of
the time of Bābar, 449.
Maulānā Ḥasan, one of the contem-
poraries of Shāh Bābar, 449.
Maulānā ‘Imādu-d-Dīn, translator of
the Rājā-taranginī into Persian,
8 n 3.
Maulānā Shihābu-d-Dīn the Enig-
matist, one of the learned men of
the time of Bābar, 449.
Ma‘ūnat, a miracle performed by the
ordinary believer, 626 n.
Māwarā an-Nahr,—or
Māwarāu-n-Nahr (Transoxiana), the
region beyond the river, 15 and n 5,
20 and n 3, 27 nn 1 and 2, 29 n 6,
37 n 7, 167 n 3, 250, 353, 448, 570
n 7, 632.
Mawās, a district in the Doāb, 386
n 5, 431 and n 4.
Mawās,—or
Mawāsāī, a place at seven krohs from
Badāon, 336 and n 1.
Mazār, signification of the word, 271
and n 3.
Mazdakīah, Al-, another name of
the heretical Bāinī sect of Shī‘ah
Muslims, 22 and n 3.
Mahar Karra, Maulānā, one of the
poets of the time of Sulān Fīroz
Shāh Tughlaq, 341 and n 1.
Maharī, the poet, 341 n 1. Same as
the above (q. v.).
Mahar-i-Hindī, Qāẓī of Agra
(? Karra), panegyrist of Fīrūz Shāh,
341 n 1. See the two above.
Māzindarān,—or
Māzinderān, a province of Persia,
32 n 1, 36 n 3.
McCrindle's Ancient India, 364 n 4.
Mecca. See under Makkah.
Medakī river, the, 419 n 6. Other-
wise known as the Mendakī or the
Asī.
Medes, the, 394 n 5.
Medical and Surgical Reporter, the,
586 n.
Medina, the City of the Prophet, 12
n 1, 75 n, 106 n 1, 149 n, 156 n 5,
158 n 1, 215 n 7, 279 n, 443, 480
n 1, 585 n 6, 600 n 9.
Medina and Mecca, Burton's Pilgrim-
age to, 97 n 4.
Mediterranean, the, 167 n 4.
Mehrān, the,—the river Indus, 36
n 10, 67 n 1.
Mehrgān, the seventh month of the
Persian year, 166 and n 1.
Melancholia, Mālīkhūliā, definition of,
5 and n 3.
Memoir, Rennell's, 129 n 2, 326 n,
327 n 3.
Memoirs of Bāber, Erskine's, 421 n 8,
437 n 7, 439 nn 4, 6 and 7, 440 n,
448 n 4, 570 nn 5 and 6, 609 n 5.
Mendakī river, the,—in Gwāliār, 419
and n 6. Otherwise known as the
Medakī or the Asī.
Mengbūrūn, origin of the name of
Sulān Jalālu-d-Dīn Mangburnī
(q. v.), 91 n 1.
Meos, the, a tribe of the Rājpūts in-
habiting the province of Mīwāt,
365 n 8.
Mereury, the planet, held to rule
over intelligence, 630 n 3.
Merv, a city and province of Khurā-
sān, 16 n 2, 17 n 3, 22 n 2, 33 n 1,
34 n 3, 35, 38, 43 and nn 1 and 3,
51 n 2, 55 n 3, 167 n 3.
Meshed (Mashhad), in Persia, 569,
573 and n 3.
Methora of Pliny, same as the town
of Mathra (q. v.), 24 n 6.
Methoras of Arrian, same as the town
of Mathra (q. v.), 24 n 6.
Mēvāt, district of, 129 n 2. See
under Mīwāt.
Meynard's Dictionnaire de la Perse,
30 n, 35 n 2, 43 nn 1, 2 and 3, 46
n 1, 50 n 2, 573 n 3.
Mhow, a town of Central India, 385
n 3.
Mīāpūr, a ford on the Ganges, 131
and n 1.
Mīch, 83. See under Mīj.
Michäel, the Archangel, 58 and n 2.
Miftāḥ, the,—or
Miftāḥu-l-‘Ulūm, of Sirāju-d-Dīn Abū
Ya‘qūb Yūsuf ibn Abī Muḥammad
ibn ‘Alī as-Sikkākī, 428 and n 2.
Miḥaffa, a kind of litter, 457 n 7.
Mihir, town of, 123 n 2. Called also
Mārhira (q. v.).
Mihr, name of the sun, 166 n 1.
Mihr, an ancient king of the Persians,
166 n 1.
Mihrajān, Day of, 166 n 1. See
under Mihrgān.
Mihrān, the,—the river Indus, 36
n 10, 67 n 1.
Mihrgān, the seventh month of the
Persian year, 166 and n 1.
Mihrgān, a great feast of the Per-
sians, 166 n 1.
Mihrgān-i-‘āmm, 166 n 1.
Mihrgān-i-khāṣṣ, 166 n 1.
Mīj, one of the tribes between Tibet
and Lakhnautī, 83 and n 4, 84 n.
Mīl, the bodkin or style used for
applying kuḥl, 153 n 8.
Milal wa-n-Niḥal, of ash-Shahrastānī,
Cureton's edition, 22 n 3, 157 n 2.
Milwat, town of, 438 n 7. Called
also Malot (q. v.).
Mīnas, a tribe of the Hindūs, 365
n 8.
Minhāju-s-Sirāj, author of the Ṭaba-
qāt-i-Nāṣirī, 88 n 1, 98 n 5, 122 n 3,
127 nn 1 and 2.
Mīr Abu-l-Baqā, one of the most dis-
tinguished of the learned men of
the time of Humāyūn, 465, 560,
573.
Mīr ‘Adl, an officer of justice under
the Ṣadr, 546 n 7, 610 n.
Mīr Ākhor, Master of the horse, 274
and n 5.
Mīr Ḥasan, son-in-law of Sulān Fīroz
Shāh Tughlaq, 338.
Mīr Ḥasan Dihlavī, a famous poet of
Dihlī, contemporary of Mīr Khusrū,
115 n 187, 188, 245, 269, 270 and
n 6.