Index I. Personal
nomen and one of his marriages 664 n. 2, 659 n. 4; his
victory over Humayun (1540) 652 n. 3. Sher Khan Tarkalani host to'Babur (926) 424. Sher-quli qardival Mughul loyal to Babur (912) 315; at
Qandahar (913) 333, 335 ; rebels (914) 345. Baba Sher-zad, see Baba Sher-zad Mulla Shams very riotous (932) 453. Sultan Shamsu'd-din Ailtmish'1 (Altamsh) of the Slave
dynasty in Dihll his buildings in Guallar 610, 611;
[f633 AH.-1236 ad.]. Sayyid Shamsu'd-din Muhammad Mir Sar-i-barahna
particulars 280. Shamsu'd-din Muhammad bearer of letters between
Khwaja Kalan and Babur (935) 644, 645, 649. Maulana Shihab mu'ammdi arrives in Agra from Herat (935)
605 ; invited in verse by Babur 683 ; [f942 AH.-1535 ad]. Khusrau's Shihabu'd-din-on Babur's service (935) 689, (936)
690. Shaikh Shihabu'd-din 'Arab at a feast (935) 631. Mu'zzu'd-dln Shihabu'd-din Muhammad Ghuri his capital
Ghaznl 217 ; mentioned as a conqueror of Hindustan 479 ;
his position contrasted with Babur's 479-80, 481; [f602 AH.-
1206 ad.]. Shah Sikandar on Babur's service (932-3) 546 ; sent to Bihar
(935) 664. Sikandar-i-Filkus Alexander of Macedon Badakhshi chiefs
claim of descent from him 22 ; a surmise that he founded
Samarkand 75 ; his supposition that the Indus was the Nile
a probable root of a geographical crux 206 n. 3 ; [f327 B.C.]. Sultan Sikandar Mirza Bdi-qard Timurid, Barlds Turk,
nephew of Husain parentage 257 ; his wife Sultan-nizhad
q.v.; [f908 AH.-l 502-3 AD.]. Sultan Sikandar Liidi Afghan, son of Buhlul over-lord in
Bhlra (910) 382, 383 ; his treasure 470, exhausted (935) 617 ;
his siege of Guallar 477 ; his capture of Junpur and Dihll
(881) 481, 571 n. 5 ; Babur visits his tomb (932) 476; his
brother 'Alam Khan and sons Ibrahim and Mahmud q.v.;
W his death and its date 427 and n. 3; [f923 AH.-1517 ad.].
1 This cognomen was given because the bearer was born during an eclipse of the moon (at, moon and the root al taking away); see Badayflnl Bib. Ind, ed. i, 62.
