‘Ubaid Rākātī, the poet, one of the
contemporaries of Sulān Ghiyāu-
d-dīn Tughlaq Shāh, 298 and
n 2.
‘Ubaidu-llah Khān, the Ozbak King,
582 n 5.
Uchh, the city of, 66 and nn 3 and 5,
79 n 3, 80 and n 1, 90, 126, 130,
132, 292, 293, 353.
‘Ūd, a musical instrument of the
Arabs, 146 n 1.
Udhāfar, the town of Oodypūr, 13 n.
Ūdītnagar, fortress of, 422 n 2.
Ūfī, author of a Taẕkira, 78 n 2. See
under Muḥammad Ūfī of Merv.
Ujain,—or
Ujjain, on the Sipra, 95 and n 4, 257
n 1, 294, 384 n 5, 495.
Ujjainīah Rājas of Bhojpūr, 185
n 1.
Ūlāgh or Ūlāq, post-horses in Turkī,
292 n 3.
‘Ulamā, application of the term, 303
n 4.
Ūlāq, post-horses, 292 n 3. See
under Ūlāgh.
Ulug Beg, the royal astronomer, 152
n 2, 198 n 2.
Ulugh Beg, Mīrzā, one of the Amīrs
of Humāyūn, 578. See also under
Ulugh Mīrzā.
Ulugh Khān Balban, 132. See under
Ulugh Khān Ghiyāu-d-Dīn Balban.
Ulugh Khān Fakhru-d-Dīn Jūnā, son
of Ghiyūu-d-Dīn Tughlaq Shāh,
297, 298, 299, 300 and n 3, 301.
See under Sulān Muḥammad Tugh-
laq Shāh.
Ulugh Khān Ghiyāu-d-Dīn Balban.
who eventually ascends the throne
of Dihlī under the title of Sulān
Ghiyāu-d-Dīn, 124 and n 4, 127,
128, 129, 131, 132, 134 nn 1 and 2,
183, 184.
Ulugh Khān Ilmās Beg, brother of
Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 247,
248 and n 2, 249, 250, 254, 255,
256, 257, 258, 259, 261 and n 5.
See also under Ilmās Beg.
Ulugh Khān-i-A‘am, Malik Ghiyāu-
d-Dīn Balban, 131, 134 n 1. See
Ulugh Khān Ghiyāu-d-Dīn.
Ulugh Khānī canal, leading from the
Sutlej, 325 n 3, 326 n.
Ulugh Mīrzā, son of Muḥammad
Zamān Mīrzā, one of the Amīrs of
Humāyūn, 452, 458, 574. See also
under Ulugh Beg.
Ulūs, a Turkish word signifying ‘a
large tribe,’ 575 n 1.
Ulūsbegī, or chief of the tribe,—a title,
575 n 1.
Ulūs-i-Chaghtā, 575 n 1. See also
under the Chaghatai tribe.
Ulwar, district and town of, 134 n 1,
365 n 8, 366 n. See also under
Alwar.
Ulwur. See Ulwar.
Umam, plural of ummatun, the fol-
lowers of a prophet or a people of
one religion, 373 and n 3.
‘Umar, the second Khalīfah, called
al-Fārūq, 3 n 6, 59 n 3, 106, 303 n 4,
604 n 5, 625 n 3.
‘Umar Khān, nephew of Sulān ‘Alā-
u-d-Dīn Khiljī, 259.
‘Umar Khān Shihābu-d-Dīn, son of
Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 273 n 4.
See under Shihābu-d-Dīn ‘Umar.
‘Umar Khān Shirwānī, one of the
Maliks of Sulān Buhlūl Lodī, 412
n 2.
‘Umar Khān, son of Sikandar Khān
Sūr, 431 n 4.
‘Umar Shaikh Mīrzā, second son of
Tīmūr and the father of Bābar,
605 and n 1.
Umayyah, Dynasty of, the Khalīfahs
of Damascus, 13 n 1, 481 n 8.
Umballa District, 362 n 1.
‘Umdatu-l-Mulk, or Privy Councillor,
401.
Umm Hānī, daughter of Abū Ṭālib
and sister of ‘Alī, 105 and n 2, 150.
Ummahānī. See the above.
Ummahāt, a scientific term, 176 n 2.
Ummu Ghailān, a thorny tree, 550
n 1.
Ummu Kulūm, daughter of Muḥam-
mad and wife of ‘Umān, the third
Khalīfah, 59 n 4.
‘Umr Khān Shirwānī, one of the
Maliks of Sulān Buhlūl Lodī, 412
n 2.
‘Umr Khān, son of Sikandar Khān
Sūr, 431 n 4.
‘Umrah, the lesser pilgrimage, 175,
176 n.
Unāo, town of, 408 n 5.
Unar, Rāi, the ruler of Thathah, con-
temporary of Sulān Fīroz Shāh
Tughlaq, 332 n 6.
United States of America, 586 n.
‘Unnāb, a tree and its fruit, 117 n 2.
‘Unṣurī, the famous Persian poet, 46
n 4.
Ūntgaṛh, fortress of, 422 and n 2,
424.
‘Uqāb, an eagle or kite, 352 n 1.
‘Uqāb, the constellation Eagle, 321 n 3.
‘Uqdatu-l-Junūbīyah, an astronomical
term, 162 n 4.
‘Uqdatu-r-Ra's, an astronomical term,
162 n 4.
‘Uqdatu-sh-Shimālīyah, an astrono-
mical term, 162 n 4.
‘Uqdatu-ẕ-Ẕanab, an astronomical
term, 162 n 4.
‘Urūẓ or ‘Arūẓ, the last foot of the
first hemistich, a term of Prosody,
606 n 4.
Useful Plants of India, Drury's, 173
n 2, 303 n, 550 n 1, 627 n 2.
Ūshī, Khwāja Bahāu-d-Dīn, a famous
preacher and learned divine, 78
and n 2.
Ūshī, Khwāja Qubu-d-Dīn. See
under Qubu-d-Dīn Ūshī.
‘Umān, the third Khalīfah, called
Ẕu-n-Nūrain, 3 n 6, 59 n 4, 106 n 4,
158 n, 625 n 3.
‘Umān, an Afghān of the time of
Islem Shāh Sūr, 495.
Ustā ‘Alī Qulī, the Artillerist of
Bābar, 439 and n 6.
Ustād, the,—a title of Firdausī, the
celebrated Poet, 461 and n 6.
Ustād Abu-l-Faraj Rūnī, the Poet,
contemporary of Sulān Ibrāhīm
Ghaznawī, 53 n, 54 and n 1.
Ustād ‘Alī Qulī, the Artillerist of
Bābar, 439 and n 6.
‘Uārid, the planet Mercury, 630
and n 3.
‘Uzz, an idol worshipped by the
old Arabs, 110 n 3.