Rashīdu-d-Dīn, author of the Jāmi-
‘u-t-Tawārīkh, 307 n 4, 353 n 1.
Rata, village of, 364 and n 7.
Rāthor tribe of Rajpūts, the, 384 nn
2 and 3.
Rauẓatu-ṣ-Ṣaf, an historical work,
62 and n 3, 121 n 1.
Raverty's Ṭabaqāt-i-Nāṣirī, 13 n 1,
14 nn 1 and 2, 16 nn 1 and 2, 19 n
2, 20 n 2, 23 n 1, 29 n 1, 31 n 1, 33
n 2, 35 n 1, 37 n 6, 38 nn 1 and 3,
42 n 3, 43 n 3, 44 nn 6 and 8, 45 n
3, 46 n 2, 47 n 1, 49 n 4, 50 n 1, 55
nn 2 and 4, 60 nn 1 and 2, 62 n
4, 65 n 2, 66 nn 1, 2 and 6, 67 nn 1
and 3, 69 nn 2, 3 and 4, 70 nn 1 and
3, 71 nn 1, 5, 6 and 7, 72 nn 1 and
4, 73 n 2, 77 n 2, 78 n 3, 79 n 3, 80
nn 3 and 4, 81 nn 2, 3 and 4, 82 nn
3 and 4, 83 nn 1 and 3, 84 n and nn
1 and 2, 85 nn 1, 2 and 4, 86 n 2,
87 nn 1, 3 and 6, 90 nn 1 and 2,
91 n 1, 92 n 2, 94 n 2, 95 n 8, 98 nn
2 and 5, 120 n 6, 121 nn 5 and 7,
122 nn 1, 2 and 3, 123 nn 2, 3 and
5, 124 n 3, 125 nn 3 and 4, 127 n 2,
128 n 1, 129 n 4, 130 n 1, 131 n 4,
132 n 1, 135 n 1.
Rāvī, the, one of the five rivers of the
Panjāb, 23 n 3, 67 n, 128, 188, 190
and n 2, 355 n 1, 383, 384 n, 389
and n 2, 392.
Rāwal Pindi, 44 n 6.
Rāwar, Fort of, in Sind, 12 n 2.
Rawī, the essential letter in the
qāfiyah or rhyme, 607 nn 3 and 4.
Rāyāt-i-A‘lā, title of Saiyyid Khiẓr
Khān, the first of the Saiyyid dy-
nasty of Dihlī, 376 and n 1.
Rāzī, relative adjective from the town
of Rai, 30 n 1.
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zaka-
rīya, known as Rhazes, the famous
physician, 30 n 1.
Rāzī, Imām, 73. See under Fakhru-
d-Dīn Rāzī.
Raẓẓīyah Khātūn, Sulān, eldest
daughter of Sulān Shamsu-d-Dīn
Iyal-timish, 98, 119, 120 and n 8,
121 and nn 1 and 5, 122 and nn 1
and 2, 294 and n 5.
Red-caps, the, a name of the Turko-
mānas of Garm Sīr, 48 and n 2.
See also under the Qizil Bāsh.
Red Palace of Sīrī, at Dihlī, 260 n 7,
261, 269 n 1.
Red Sea, the, 169 n 1.
Redhouse, Mr., 89 n 1.
Redhouse's Turkish Dictionary, 575
n 1.
Reinaud, Géographie d'Aboulfeda, 27
nn 1 and 2, 30 n and n 1, 34 nn 1,
2 and 3, 36 n 2, 67 n 1, 71 n 3,
147 n 1, 167 n 4, 265 n 5, 307
n 4.
Rennell, 22 n 5, 69 n 2, 80 n 1, 93 n
and n 1, 128 n 3, 129 n 2, 186 n 6,
325 n 3, 326 n, 327 n 3, 344 n 7,
355 n 1, 362 n 3, 364 n 4, 380 n 2,
382 n 2, 415 n 7, 417 n 7, 419 n 6,
420 n 5, 423 n 5, 530 n 3.
Rewā, town of, 417 n 7.
Rewa State, 417 n 7.
Rewārī, a town in the province of
Mīwāt, 366 n, 537.
Reyy, 30 n 1. Same town as Rai
(q. v.).
Rhagæ, ancient name of the town of
Rai (q. v.), 30 n 1.
Rhages, capital of the province of
Rhagiana, 30 n 1.
Rhagiana, the province of Rai in
Persian ‘Irāq, 30 n 1.
Rhazes, the famous physician, 30
n 1. See under Rāzī, Abū Bakr
Muḥammad ibn Zakarīya.
Rhétorique et Prosodie des langues de
l'Orient Musulmān, Garcin de
Tassy, 428 n 2, 605 nn 8 and 9,
606 n 2, 607 n 4, 608 n 3.
Riāsī, town of, 384 n 1.
Ribābah, the bag in which the arrows
were put in the game of maisir,
369 n 1.
Ribā, a fortified station on an
enemy's frontier, 44 n 5, 106
n 2.
Ribā Amīr, name of a place in
Seistān, 48 and n 1.
Richardson's Persian Dictionary, 214
n 2, 215 n 6.
Ridf, a letter of prolongation before
the rawī of a rhyme, 607 n 4.
Rig Veda, the, 293 n 5.
Rij‘at, motion of a star in opposition
to the movement in the normal
direction, 374 n 7.
Ring of ‘Alī, possessed of magical
properties, 505 and n 6.
Ring of Solomon, 205 n 3, 505 n 6,
559 and n 2.
Rishwatī, poetical name of Mīr
Saiyyid Na‘matu-llah (q. v.), 533
n 7, 534 n 4.
Riẓwān, the door-keeper of Paradise,
194 and n 3, 281, 601.
Rocky Citadel, the, or Shahr-i-Nau,
on the banks of the Jumna, 231.
Roebuck's Oriental Proverbs, 57 n 2,
58 n 1, 218 n 2, 244 n 5, 301
n 3.
Roh, a name of Afghānistān, 466 and
n 5, 493 and n 6.
Rohilkhand,—or
Rohilkhund, district of, known also
as Kaithar, 185 n 2, 359 n 4, 364
n 4.
Rohrī, town of, 559 n 6.
Rohtak, town of, 72 n 2, 222, 351,
364, 365, 375.
Rohtās, fortress of,—in the Panjāb,
457, 466 n 6, 468, 472, 474, 493, 498,
501, 503, 592.
Rohtās Bihār, Sarkār of, 185 n 1.
Rohtās Sharqī, in the Shāhābād dis-
trict of Bengal, 466 n 6.
Rohtāsgaṛh, in the Shāhābād district
of Bengal, 466 n 6.
Romans, the, 18 n 1, 76 n, 104 n 2,
494 n 7.
Romans, Epistle to the, 474 n 1.
Rome, 119 n 5.
Rook, the castle at chess, 505 and n 2
Rookn Khān, for Akat Khān the
nephew of Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn
Khiljī, 259 n 5.
Rose, properties of the, 148 n 4.
Rosenweig-Schwannau's Diwan Hafis,
121 n 3.
Roshan, Pīr, founder of the Roshaniy-
yah Sect (q. v.), 58 n 5.
Roshan Beg Koka, one of the Amīrs
of Humāyūn, 565.
Roshaniyyah, or the Enlightened, a
Ṣūfī sect founded by Bāyazīd An-
ṣārī, also called Pīr Roshan, 58
n 5.
Ross. See under Elias and Ross.
Rostrum, an ancient instrument of
war, 29 n 5.
Roxána, wife of Alexander the Great,
331 n 10.
Royal Asiatic Society, Journal of the,
16 n 2, 33 n 1, 47 n 2, 59 n 1, 87 n
1, 103 n 1, 109 n 4, 115 n and n 3,
141 n 4, 330 n 7, 479 n 7, 571
n 2.
Rubāb, a stringed instrument like a
guitar, 367 n 5.
Ruby, Four kinds of, 25 n 2.
Ruby Palace, at Dihlī, 260.
Rue, its efficacy in exorcism, 617 n 1.
Rūḥ, the vital principle, 144 n 2,
145 n.
Rūh or Roh, a name of Afghānistān,
466 and n 5, 493 and n 6, 520.
Rūḥānī, a learned man of the time of
Sulān Shamsu-d-Dīn lyal-timish,
93 and n 2.
Rūīn, a village of the dependencies of
Lahore, 54 and n 2.
Rujū‘-i-kaukab, an astronomical term,
374 n 7. See under Rij‘at.
Rukh, the cheek and also the castle at
chess, 505 n 2.
Rukn Khān Afghān, one of the Amīrs
of the Sūr dynasty, 598.
Rukn-i-Yamānī, the south corner of
the Ka‘bah, 97 and n 4.
Ruknu-d-Dīn Chanda Wazīr, Malik,
one of the Amīrs of the Fīrūz
Shāhī dynasty, 341, 342.
Ruknu-d-Dīn Fīroz Shāh, Sulān, son
of Sulān Shamsu-d-Dīn Iyal-
timish 97, 98, 99, 113.
Ruknu-d-Dīn Ibrāhīm, son of Sulān
Jalālu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 244, 247 and n
and n 5. See also under Qadr Khān.
Ruknu-d-Dīn Quraishī, Shaikh, son of
Shaikh Ṣadru-d-Dīn ‘Ārif and
grandson of Shaikh Bahāu-d-Dīn
Zakarīyā, contemporary of the
Sulāns ‘Alāu-d-Dīn and Qubu-d-
Dīn Khiljī, 248 and n 2, 284, 304
and n 4.
Ruknu-d-Dīn Tughral Beg, founder of
the Saljūqiyyah dynasty of Khorā-
sān, 42 n 3, 61 n 5.
Ruknu-l-Ḥaqq Quraishī, Shaikhu-l-
Islām, 304 and n 4. Same as
Ruknu-d-Dīn Quraishī (q. v.).
Rūm, country of, 585 n 7, 621.
Rūm, Sea of,—the Mediterranean,
153 n 1.
Rūm, Sulān of,-title of the Sulāns
of Turkey, 480.
Rūmī Khān, the Artillerist of Humā-
yūn, 456 and n 7.
Rūn, a place near Lahore, 54 n 2.
Rūna, a village in Nīsāpūr of Khurā-
sān, 54 n 1.
Rūnī, Abu-l-Faraj, a celebrated poet
of the time of Sulān Ibrāhīm Ghaz-
nawī, 53 n, 54 and n 1.
Rūpar, town of, 362 and n 1, 380 and
n 2, 382 and n 3.
Ruqaiyyah, daughter of Muḥammad
and wife of ‘Umān ibn ‘Affān, 59 n 4.
Rūshāna, wife of Alexander the
Great, 332 n.
Rustam, the famous hero of ancient
Īrān, 14 n 3, 39, 114, 116 n 5, 117,
127, 180 n 2, 181 and n 1, 199, 207,
294, 548.
Rustam, one of the Generals of the
Great Tīmūr, 358 n 6.
Rusūldār, Saiyyid, one of the court
officers of Sulān Fīroz Shāh
Tughlaq, 328.
Rusūlī, poetical name of Mīr Saiyyid
Na‘matu-llāh, one of the poets of
the reign of Islem Shāh, 533 and
n 7, 534 and n 4.
Rusūlpūr, the fortress of Shamsābād,
472.
Ruswāī, disgraced, 499.
Ruttunpoor, for the town of Ilāhpūr,
410 n 3.
Rūzbih, Persian name of Salmān al-
Fārsī, 572 n 1.