Nabadwīp, another name of Nadiya,
old capital of Bengal, 82 n 4.
Nabīh, of the tribe of Quraish, killed
at the battle of Badr, 74 n 2.
Nadar Dev, Rāi, Governor of Arankal
under Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn Khiljī,
265 and n 4.
Nadīm, foster-brother of Humāyūn,
564 and nn 8 and 9.
Nādirī-i-Samarqandī, Maulānā, one of
the poets of the time of Humāyūn,
611, 612, 613, 616 and n 2.
Nadiya, once the capital of Bengal,
81 n 2, 82 n 4 Called also Nūdiyā.
Nafaḥātu-l-Uns of Maulānā ‘Abdu-r-
Raḥmān Jāmī, 270 and n 4, 609 n 5.
Nafā'isu-l-Ma'āir, Lives of the Poets,
616 n 4, 618 n 5.
Nāfis, name of the fourth arrow in
the game of maisir, 369 n 1.
Nafs, the soul, 144 n 2, 145 n 1.
Nafsu-l-‘Aql, the reason or discrimi-
nating faculty, 145 n 1.
Nafsu-l-Ḥayāt, the breath of life, 145
n 1.
Nafsu-n-Nāiqah, the reasoning facul-
ty, 145 n 1.
Nagar Cott, fortress of, 20 n 5. See
Nagar Koṭ.
Nagar Koṭ, fortress of, 20 n 5, 331,
341, 342, 495. Also called Bhīm-
nagar and Kot Kangra.
Nagaur,—or
Nāgor, city of, 124, 129, 130, 251,
357 n 3, 379 and n 1, 423, 425, 477,
563.
Nahar Pāl, nephew of Hīmūn Baqqāl,
the Hindū General of ‘Adlī, 553
nn 5 and 6.
Naharwālā, a city of Gujrāt, called
also Patan or Pattan, 28 and n 2,
71 and n 3, 89, 256 and n 4, 282.
Nāhīd, name of the planet Venus in
Persian, 138 and n 3.
Nāhir, a Hindū General in the service
of Sulān Mas‘ūd ibn Maḥmūd Ghaz-
nawī, 36 and n 9.
Naḥsān, Mars and Saturn as the two
stars of ill omen, 217 n 5.
Naḥv (Tuḥfa) Tāju-l-Mulk, one of
the Maliks of Khiẓr Khān of the
Saiyyid dynasty of Dihlī, 376 and
n 2.
Nāi, fortress of, 53 n, 54 nn 1 and 3.
Nāib of the barīds, 286 n 1.
Nāib-i-Shāhzāda, Malik Sadhū Nādir
(q. v.), 378.
Nāib Malik,—or
Nāibu-l-Mulk Kāfūr, title of Malik
Mānik, the slave of Sulān ‘Alāu-d-
Dīn Khiljī, 251 and n 7, 252, 256,
265 and nn 1 and 6, 267, 268, 271
n 6, 272, 273 and n 1. Called
also Hazār Dīnārī.
Nails, Paring of, 139 n 5.
Narīmān, one of the heroes of the
Shāhnāma, 35 n 2, 72.
Naisān or Nīsān, first month of the
Jewish year, 108 n 4.
Najam-i-ānī. See Najm-i-ānī.
Najātu-r-Rashīd of Badāonī, 511 and
n 2, 609 and n 3.
Najm, An-, the Pleiades, 630 n 4.
Najm Shāh, one of the Amīrs of
Shāh Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī of Persia, 570.
Najm-i-Awwal, one of the Amīrs of
Shāh Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī of Persia, 570
and n 5.
Najm-i-ānī Iṣfahānī, one of the
Amīrs of Shāh Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī of
Persia, 570 n 5.
Najmu-d-Dīn, Saiyyid, regent of
Malik Sikandar of Lāhor (q. v.),
390.
Najmu-d-Dīn Abū Bakr, the Ṣadru-l-
Mulk, Wazīr of Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn
Mas‘ūd Shāh of the Shamsīyah
dynasty, 124.
Najmu-d-Dīn Ḥasan, Shaikh, 270 n 6.
Same as the famous poet Mīr
Ḥasan Dihlavī (q. v.)
Najmu-d-Dīn ‘Umar bin ‘Alī Qazwīnī,
author of the Shamsīyah, 427 n 1.
Nakhshab, fortress of, in Khurāsān,
570. Otherwise called Kash.
Nāma-i-Khirad Afzā of Badāonī, 95
and n 6.
Na‘mat Khātūn, wife of Qub Khān
Lodī (q. v.), 423 and n 2.
Na‘mat Rusūlī,—or
Na‘matu-llāh Rusūlī, Mīr Saiyyid,
one of the poets and learned men
of the time of Islem Shāh Sūr, 533
and n 7, 534 and n 4.
Nāmī, son of Muḥammad, son of
Sulān Maḥmūd Ghaznawī, 47 and
n 3.
Nandā, the Rājā of Kālinjar, contem-
porary of Sulān Maḥmūd Ghaz-
nawī, 25, 26.
Nandana, a city on the mountains of
Bālnāth, 22 and n 5, 128 and n 3.
Nandanpour, 128 n 3. Same as
Nandana (q. v.).
Naqīr, the small groove on the date
stone, 496 n 10.
Naqqāra, a kind of drums, 143 n 2.
Naqsh, ornamental figures, 588 n 4.
Naqshband, a weaver of Kamkhābs
adorned with figures, 588 n 4.
Naqshband, Khwājā Bahāu-d-Dīn, of
Bokhārā, a famous saint, 588 n 4.
Naqshbandī, Khwājā Khāwind, con-
temporary of Bābar, 446.
Naqshbandī School, the, 588 n 4.
Naqshbandī Shaikhs, the followers of
the renowned saint Khwāja Bahā-
u-d-Dīn Naqshband of Bokhārā,
588 n 4.
Narain, town of, on the banks of the
river Sarsutī, 69 and n 4.
Nāran-Koe, town of, 85 n 4.
Narbadā river, the, 517 n 9.
Narcissus, notes on, 373 and n 3.
Nārdīn, a perfume, 146 n 6.
Narela, a place in the neighbourhood
of Dihlī, 21 n 4.
Nargis or Narjis, the poet's narcissus,
373 n 3.
Nārkīla, town of, 186 and n 4.
Narma Shīrīn, the Mughal, brother
of Qutlugh Khwāja (q. v.), 305.
Nārnālī, District of, 85 and n 4.
Narnaul, in the province of Mīwāt,
365 n 8. See the two next.
Narnol, capital city of the district of
Mīwāt, 129 n 2, 365 and n 8, 395,
466.
Nārnūl, district and town of, 365,
466. See the two above.
Narsingh, Rāi, 361 n 2. See Rāi
Harsingh.
Nārwan, the tree called Gulnār, 172
and n 3.
Narwar, fortress of, a dependency of
Mālwa, 129 n 4, 130 and n 1, 422
and nn 3 and 5.
Narwar, Sarkār of, 130 n 1.
Nasaf, a town of Khurāsān, called
also Nakhshab, 570 n 7.
Na‘sh La‘āzar, the Chariot or the
four stars composing the body of
the Great Bear, 198 n 2.
Naṣīb Khān Ṭaghūchī,—or
Naṣīb Khān Ṭughūjī, one of the
Amīrs of the Afghān Sūr dynasty
of Dihlī, 542, 593.
Naṣīb Shāh, Governor of Bangāla,
contemporary of Shīr Shāh and
Humāyūn, 457.
Naṣībīn, a town of Mesopotamia, 61
n 5.
Nāsikhu-t-Tawārīkh of Lisānu-l-Mulk,
154 n 8.
Naṣīr Khān Afghān, one of the Amīrs
of the Afghān Sūr dynasty, 592.
Naṣīr Khān Lūhānī, one of the Gene-
rals of Sulān Ibrāhīm Lodī, 434,
444, 446 and n 1.
Naṣirābād, in the Jodhpur State,
Rājputānā, 379 n 1.