Wādī, a valley or desert, used in the
sense of art, 557 and n 2.
Wafā Malik, title of Malik Shāhīn,
one of the Amīrs of Sulān Qubu-
d-Dīn Khiljī, 284.
Wafā'ī, one of the poets of the time
of Humāyūn, 609.
Waghd, name of one of the blank
arrows in the game of maisir, 369
n 1.
Wahhābīs, the, 183 n 2.
Waḥīdu-d-Dīn Quraishī, Malik, one
of the Amīrs of Sulān Qubu-d-
Dīn Khiljī, 285 and n 4, 286 n 1,
290.
Waihind, on the western bank of the
Indus, 19 n 2, 20 n 1.
Wais Sirwānī, Khwāja, one of the
Amīrs of Islem Shāh Sūr, 493 and
n 7, 497.
Waisī, one of the poets of the time
of Humāyūn, 584 and n 4, 585.
Wajīhu-d-Dīn, Shaikh, son of Kamālu-
d-Dīn ‘Alī Shāh Quraishī and
father of Shaikh Bahāu-d-Dīn
Zakarīya, 133 n 2.
Wajīhu-d-Dīn Quraishī, one of the
Maliks of Sulān Qubu-d-Dīn
Khiljī, 285 n 4.
Wālā Muḥammad Balban, 161. Same
as Ghiyāu-d-Dīn Balban (q. v.).
Walaj, fort of, called also Bajj, 34
and n 7.
Wālī, one who has attained to the
knowledge of the Supreme Being,
52 and n 3.
Wālī of Bangālā, the contemporary
of Shīr Shāh, 469.
Walī Qizil, one of the Amīrs of
Bābar, 441.
Walīd ibn ‘Abdu-l-Malik Marwānī,
one of the Umaiyyad Khalīfahs
of Damascus, 11 n 3, 12 and nn
1 and 2, 13 n.
Walīd ibnu-r-Raiyyān, one of the
three chief lords of Shaddād ibn
‘Ād (q. v.), 262 n.
Walīd ibn Ṭarīf ash-Shaibānī, one of
the Khawārij in the reign of
Hārūnu-r-Rashīd, 74 n 2.
Walis, holy men, 627 n 3. See Wālī
Wāmiq, hero of a Turkish romance,
40 and n 1. See the next.
Wāmiq and ‘Azra, a Turkish romance
by Maḥmūd bin Amān Lamāī, 40
n 1.
Wāmiq and ‘Azra, a Turkish romance
by Mu‘īd of Tarkhān, 40 n 1.
Waqi‘āt-i-Bābarī, called also Tūzak-i-
Bābarī, 421 and n 8, 448 and n 4.
See also under the Memoirs of
Bābar.
Warangal, ancient capital of Telin-
gāna, 265 n 4.
Wardī, a kind of beverage, 31 n.
Wars, a herb used for dyeing clothes,
173 n 2.
Wāṣil, Malik, adopted son of Malik
Mubārak Qaranqal of Jaunpūr, 360
n 1.
Wāsi, a town of ‘Irāq between Baṣra
and Kūfah, 12 n 1.
Waṣṣāf, the Historian, 265 n 5.
Wazīr, at chess, 103 and n 1.
Wazīr Khān Malik Shāhik, one of the
Amīrs of the Balbanī dynasty, 220.
Western Jumna Canal, the, 325 n 3.
Western Rohtās, 493.
Whinfield's Omar Khaiyyām, 144 n 1.
Wilāyat-i-Panna, 417 and n 6. See
under Panna.
Wilson's Sanskrit Dictionary, 535
n 2.
Works of Sir William Jones, 76 n.
Wuẓū', ceremonial washings before
prayer, 602 and n 7, 603 n.