Shirwān Shāh Khāqān Manūchihr,
King of Persia, patron of the
famous poet Khāqānī, 583 n 4.
Shīwar, town of, 389 and n 8, 391,
392 and n 5.
Shrines of the Shaikhs at Multān,
392.
Shujā‘u-l-Mulk, son of Saiyyid Sālim
of Tabarhindah (q. v.), 388.
Siālkoṭ, fortress of, 49 and n 1, 66
and n 7, 67 and n, 436, 437, 465.
Sibi, town of, 425 n 2.
Sicilians, the, 76 n.
Sidāran or Sidhāran, son of Kāngū
Khatrī, a protégé of the Mubārak
Shāhī family, 393 n 3, 395, 396,
397.
Ṣiddīq, Aṣ-, title of Abū Bakr, the
first Khalīfah, 59 and n 2.
Sidh Pāl, grandson of Kajwī Khatrī,
a protégé of the Mubārak Shāhī
family, 394, 395, 397.
Sidhan, Rāi of Satgaṛh, contempor-
ary of Sulān Fīroz Shāh Tughlaq,
329 n 5.
Sidhāran Khatrī, 395. See under
Sidāran.
Sīdī Maulā, Saiyyid, contemporary
of Sulān Jalālu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 233
and n 4, 234, 235, 248, 507 and
n 2, 525.
Sidra, the,—or
Sidratu-l-Muntahā, the lote tree of
Paradise, in the seventh heaven,
58 n 3, 150 and n 2.
Ṣiffīn, a celebrated battle between
‘Alī and Mu‘āwiyah, 157 n 2.
Sihām, arrows used in the game of
maisir, 369 and n 1.
Sihrind, town of, 330, 331 and n 3,
378, 380, 382, 383 n 11, 406, 437,
438, 486, 498, 548. See also under
Sirhind.
Siḥru-l-Ḥalāl, lawful magic, 151 n 6.
Sīḥūn (Jaxartes), the, 159 n.
Sihwān, in the Karāchī district of
Sind, 560 n 8.
Sijdah, a prostration in prayer, 612
n 3.
Sijistān, province of, 15 n, 34 n 4,
70 n 2.
Sijz, a village in the province of
Sijistān, 70 n 2.
Sikandar, a general of Mīrzā Kām-
rān's army, 463.
Sikandar, called Ẕu-I-Qarnain,
Alexander the Great, 254, 255, 268,
331, 425, 436, 441, 485.
Sikandar, Rampart of, 191 and n 2.
Sikandar-i-ānī, title of Sulān
‘Alāu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 254 and n 6.
Sikandar Khān Osbak, one of the
Amīrs of Humāyūn, 592 and n 1,
594, 595.
Sikandar Khān, son of Shāh Muḥam-
mad Farmalī, one of the Amīrs of
the Afghān Sūr dynasty, 538, 539.
Sikandar Khān, Malik Ya‘qūb, one
of the Amīrs of Fīroz Shāh
Tughlaq, 337, 338.
Sikandar Lodī, Sulān, son of Sulān
Buhlūl Lodī, 411, 412, n 2, 413 and
n 13, 416, 417, 418, 423 n 11, 424
and n 4, 425, 426, 427, 429, 431
and n 1, 432, 435, 444, 445, 466,
470, 476.
Sikandar Maliku-sh-Sharq, governor
of Lāhor, contemporary of Mubā-
rak Shāh of the Saiyyid dynasty,
389, 390.
Sikandar, son of Shamsu-d-Dīn,
Sulān of Lakhnautī, contemporary
of Sulan Fīroz Shāh, 328 and n 6,
329.
Sikandar Sūr, one of the cousins of
Shīr Shāh, assumes the title of
Sulān, 542, 543, 544, 546, 547, 550,
559, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596, 597.
Sikandar, son of Tāju-l-Mulk Naḥv,
one of the Maliks of Khiẓr Khān,
the first of the Saiyyids, 380.
Sikandar Tuḥfa, Malik, one of the
Amīrs of the Saiyyid dynasty, 383.
See the above.
Sikandarnāma, one of the poetical
works of Mīr Khusrū of Dihlī,
269 n 5.
Sikandarnāma, one of the poetical
works of the celebrated poet
Niāmī, 174 n 3, 298 n 4, 467.
Sikkah, currency stamped with name
of sovereign, 3 n 3, 15 and n 3.
Sikkākī, Sirāju-d-Dīn Abū Ya‘qūb
Yūsuf, author of the Miftāḥu-l-
‘Ulūm, 428 n 2.
Sīkrī, another name of the town of
Fatḥpūr, 386, 445 and n 2, 487,
488.
Sil Hako bridge, over the Brahma-
putra, 84 n 1.
Silsilatu-ẕ-Ẕahab, one of the works
of Maulānā Jāmī, 272 n 1.
Simāk, the fourteenth of the houses
of the moon, 152 and n 2.
Simāku-l-A‘zal, Spica Virginis, 152
n 2.
Simāku-r-Rāmiḥ, Arcturus, 152 n 2.
Sīmurgh, a fabulous bird, 178 nn 2
and 4.
Sind, 11 n 3, 12, 13 n, 20, 29, 36 and
n 10, 80, 88 n 1, 91, 124, 187, 297,
465, 559, 560 n 8, 618 n 6. Called
also Sindh.
Sind, the,—the river Indus, 128 n 3,
422 n 3.
Sindh, see under Sind.
Sindhīs, the, 130.
Sindhu, name of the Indus in Sans-
krit, 23 n 3.
Sindus,—the river Indus, 23 n 3.
Sinjār, town of, in Mesopotamia, 55
n 3, 167 n 3.
Sinjar, Alp Khān, wife's brother of
Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 247.
Sinjar ibn Malik Shāh Saljūqī, the
last of the Saljūq dynasty in
Khurāsān, 55 and nn 3 and 4, 56,
61 and n 5, 65, 167 and n 3, 170,
291, 602.
Sinjūrī, Abū ‘Alī,—contemporary of
Sulān Maḥmūd of Ghaznīn, 20.
Sintūr hills, the Kumaon hills, 185,
186 n 1, 334 and n 7.
Sipāhān, same as Ispahān or Iṣpahān,
34 and n 1, 35.
Sipand, rue, burned to avert the evil
eye, 192 n 3, 617 and n 1.
Sipar, Rāi, Governor of Itāwa, con-
temporary of Khiẓr Khān of the
dynasty of the Saiyyids, 380 and
n 5, 381.
Siparak, a herb, 629 and n 2.
Sipra river, the,—in Mālwā, 95 n 4.
Siprak, a herb, 629 n 2.
Siqlā, a silken stuff brocaded with
gold, 543 n 3.
Sīr, Rāi, ruler of Baitālī, contempor-
ary of the Fīrūz Shāhī dynasty,
360 and n 3.
Sirāj ‘Afīf, the Historian. See under
Shams-i-Sirāj ‘Afīf.
Sirāju-d-Dīn Abū Ya‘qūb Yūsuf bin
Abī Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī as-Sikkākī,
author of the Miftāḥu-l-‘Ulūm, 428
n 2.
Sirā, bridge across the fire of Hell,
113 n 1. See also the next.
Sirā-i-Mustaqīm, the hair-like bridge
over Hell, 372 and n 2. See also
the above.
Sirhind, town of, 331 n 3, 401, 520,
592 and n 6, 594. See also under
Sihrind.
Sirhindī, Yaḥyā ibn Aḥmad ibn
‘Abdu-llah, author of the Tārīkh-i-
Mubārak Shāhī, 10 n 2, 67 n 2.
Sīrī, one of the three cities of Dihlī,
247, 269 n 1, 295 n 10, 311 n 5,
351, 361 n 1, 366 and n 1, 396.
Sirinor, mountains of, in the
Himalayas, 307 n 4.
Sir Mūr,—or
Sirmūr, hilly country of, 120 and nn 1
and 3, 131, 251, 324, 337, 338, 341.
Sirmūr, town of, 326 n 2.
Sirmūr Bardār, hills of, 120 n 1.
Sissoo tree, the, Dalbergia sissoo, 129
n 2.
Sīstān, province of, 569. See also
under Seistān, Sīwistān and Sijis-
tān.
Siwālik hill-range, to the north of
Hindūstān, 70, 93, 132 n 4, 358 and
n 6, 438, 595.
Sīwī Siyūpūr, province of, 425 and
n 2.
Sīwī o Sīūpur, province of, 425 n 2.