Bābā Khurram, see Khurram Bābā and Shāh Jahān.

Bābar, emperor, defeats Ibrāhīm, Sulān, 4; makes garden, 4; styled Firdūs-makānī, 5; waited on by Dilāwar Khān, 87; his stone terrace at Kabul, 108; his Memoirs, 109, 110 note, 215; Jahāngīr visits his tomb, 110; revisits stone terrace, 121; defeats Rānā Sāngā, 250; verse by, 304.

Bad luck, four causes of, 235.

Badī‘u-z-zamān, fourth son of Shāhrukh, 120; goes off to join Rānā, arrested and sent to Court, 127; gets 2,000 rupees, 160; promoted, 163, 289, 360; waits on Jahāngīr, 202; ap­pointed to expedition against Rānā, 204.

Bāgha, son of Rānā, 74.

Baglāna, account of, 396.

Bahādur, son of Muaffar Gujarātī, makes disturbance, 49; death, 274.

Bahādur, Sultan of Gujarat, 408.

Bahādur Khān Qūrbegī, promoted, 81; governor of Qandahar, 282, 319; makes offering, 379.

Bahāduru-l-mulk, given standard, 255; promoted, 285.

Bahlūl Khān, 372, 405.

Bahra-war, son of Mahābat Khān, 346.

Bairām Khān, Akbar's tutor, 38; kills Tardī Beg, 39; advises Akbar to kill Hemū, 40; married to Salīma Sulān Begam, 232.

Baish (Vaishya), Hindu caste, 245.

Bāk Bhal, village, 165.

Bakhtar Khān Kalāwant, ‘Ādil Khān's favourite, 271.

Bālā Ḥiṣār, of Kabul, inspected, 118.

Bāmiyān, 117 and note.

Banārasī, Shaikh, misconduct at Patna and punishment, 175–6.

Bang and būza, forbidden, 157.

Bansībadan, elephant sent by Islām Khān, 237.

Bāppa, 250 n. 2.

Bāqī Khān, ruler of Transoxiana, 26.

Bargīs (Mahrattas), 220.

Bārha Sayyids, 64.

Barkhūrdār, son of ‘Abdu - r -Raḥmān, son of Mu'ayyid Beg, ordered back to his fief, 21; given title of Khān ‘Ālam, 154. See also Khān ‘Ālam.

Barkhūrdār, brother of ‘Abdu-llah Fīrūz-jang, gets title of Bahādur Khān, 146; promoted, 163.

Basāwal, 103.

Bāso, Raja of Māu, promoted, 49; sent in quest of Khusrau, 65; in charge of Rām Chand Bandīlah, 87; appointed to army against Rānā, 200; death, 252.

Batoh, village in Gujarat, 436.

Bāyazīd, Shaikh, grandson of Shaikh Salīm, promoted, 32; receives title of Mu‘aam Khān, 79; governor of Delhi, 137; promoted and sent to Delhi, 171; sons promoted, 202.

Bāyazīd Bārha, 418.

Bāyazīd Biyāt, quoted, 107 note.

Bāyazīd Mankalī, pays respects along with his brothers on coming from Bengal, 166; sent off after getting dress, 170.

Bāysunghar, son of Dāniyāl, 75.

Bāz Bahādur, title of Lāla Beg, son of Niām librarian to Humāyūn, 21; held fief in Bihar, 21.

Bāz Bahādur Qalmāq, waits on Jahāngīr, 79; appointed to Deccan, 184.

Bengal, account of, 207.

Bezoar stones, goats with them brought from Carnatic, 240.

Bhadar, name of Ahmadābād citadel, 423.

Bhagwān Dās, Rāja, son of Bihārī Mal, uncle (and adoptive father) of Mān Singh, 16, 29; in battle in Gujarat, 42.

Bhakra, village in Ghakhar country, 96.

Bhanwar, net, 99.

Bhāo Singh, son of Mān Singh, promoted 24, 140, 372; made Mīrzā Rāja, 266; goes home, 268; offering of, 282; goes to Amber, 297; given a turban, 329.

Bhārat, grandson of Rām Chand Bandīlah, made Raja, 231.

Bharjū, Raja of Baglāna, 221, 396, 411.

Bhīm Narāyan, of Gadeha, 411.

Bhoj, Rāja, 406.

Bhoj, son of Bikramājīt Bhadauriyā, 389.

Bhūgyāl tribe, 97.

Bīd mūllā (willow-tree), 7.

Bīgara, meaning of title, 429.

Bihār Bānū Begam, daughter of Jahāngīr, 19.

Bihārī Chand Qānūngū, to send infantry to Parwīz, 159; pro­moted, 160.

Bihārī Mal, Rāja, first Rājpūt to serve Akbar, 16.

Bihaṭ River, source of, 92–3.

Bihishtābād, that is, Sikandra, 249.

Bijay Rām, riot by, 29.

Bīka Begam, (step) great-grand­mother of Jahāngīr, wife of Bābar, her garden at Kabul, 106 and n. 1.

Bikramājīt, Rāja, title of Patr Dās, 22; sent to Gujarat, 50. See Patr Dās.

Bikramājīt, Sundar Dās, Rāja, 325, 402.

Bikramājīt, of Ujjain, founder of observatories, 22, 354.

Bikramājīt, zamindar of Bāndhū, 176.

Bīr Singh Deo, of Bandela, pro­moted, 24, 204, 231, 281; kills Abū-l-faẓl, 25; reports from, 111; brings white cheeta, 139; present to, 147.

Bird, strange, from Zīrbād(Sumatra, etc.), 272.

Birthday, Jahāngīr's, 9 and n. 1.

Bishūtan, grandson of Abū-l-faẓl, 167.

Blackstone throne, account of, 177.

Blochmann quoted, 6 notes, and passim.

Bokul, a tree, 6 note.

Brahmans, duties of, 244, 357.

Bughra, cooking entertainment, 107 and note.

Buland-akhtar, son of Khusrau, 153.

Bulghur-khānas, free eating-houses, 75, 204.