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Babar 62 Badr-uddin ter of Yunas Khan, king of Mughalistan and sister to Mah- mud Khan, a descendant of the famous Changez or Jenghiz Khan. He was born on the 15th February 1483, 6th Muharram. 888 A. H., and succeeded his father in the government of Farghana, the capital of which is Andjan, in June 1494, Eamazan, 899 A. H. During eleven years he fought several battles with the Tartar and Uzbak princes, but was at last obliged to leave his country and fly towards Kabul, which place he conquered, without opposition, together with Kandahar and Badakhshan. He reigned for 22 years over those countries before his conquest of India. He then proceeded to Hindustan, , slew Ibrahim Husain Lodi, the Pathan king of Dehli, in a battle at Panipat on Friday the 20th of April 1526, A. D., 7th Eajab, 932 A. H , and became the founder of the Mughal dynasty of India which ended in 1857. Babar wrote his own life in the Turkish language, called " Tiizak Babari" with such elegance and truth, that the performance is universally admired. It was translated in the reign of his grandson Akbar, by Abdul Rahim Khan, Khankhanan into Persian, and recently into English from the Jaghatai Turkf, by J. Leyden, Esq., and Wm. Erskine, Esq. This monarch ascended the throne in his 12th year and reigned 38 years, viz : at Andjan 11 years, at Kabul 22, and nearly 5 years in India, and died in Agra on Monday the 26th of December, 1530 A. D., 6th Jamad I, 937 A. H. He was at first buried in a garden on the left bank of the Jamna, then caUed the Ntir Af- shan, and now Eambagh, from which place his remains were transported after six months to Kabul, where a splendid mausoleum was built on his tomb by his great- great-grandson, the emperor Shah Jahan in 1646 A. D. His tomb on a hill near the city, surrounded by large beds of flowers, commands a noble prospect. The chronogram of the year of his death was found to consist in the words " Bahisht-rozi'bad," or May heaven be his lot." After his death, he received the title of " Firdaus-Makani. He was succeeded on the throne of Dehli by his eldest son, the emperor Humayun. His other three sons were Mirza Kamriin, Mirza 'Askari, and Mirzii Handal. Firishta says, that Babar, who was much addicted to women and wine, on occasions when he was inclined to make merry, used to fill a reservoir in a garden in the neighbour- hood of Kabul, with some wine, over which was inscribed a verse to this purpose — Give me but wine and blooming maids, All other joys I freely spurn : Enjoy them, Babar, while you may — For youth once past, will ne"er return. Babar (Sultan), yS^. cJ^^*", sumamed Abul Kasim, was the son of IMirza Baisanghar and grandson of Shahrukh Mirza. After the death of Mirza Ulagh Beg and his son 'Abdul Latif, he succeeded in January 1452, A. D., Zil-hija 855 A. H., in murdering his own brother Sultan Muham- mad and establishing himself in the government of Khura- san and the neighbouring countries. A few months before his death, the comet of 1456 A. D., 860 A. H., made its appearance and alarmed the inhalritants of Khurasan. He died at Jlashhad on Tuesda}' the 22nd of March 1457. 25th Rabf II, 861 A. H. After his death Khurasan was taken possession of by Mirza Abii Sa'id, the grandfather of the emperor Babar Shah of Dehli. Baba Soudai, vide Soudaf (Baba). v^t^^-^J^^ Babawia, 'H?--; or Bin Babawia, father of Ibn Babawia, vide Abii'l Hasan Ali Bin-al-Husian at Kumari. Badakhshi, ^j'^'^., a Persian poet who was a native of the province of Badakhshan. He flourished in the reign of the khah'f Al-Muktafi, about the year 905 A. D., 294 A. H. His Diwan or collection of poems is written upon the fortunes of the great men of the court ; and he says . that the varied scene in human atFairs ought not to create surprise as we see that life is measured by an hour-glass, and that an hour is always above and the other below in alternate succession. Badakhshi (Maulana), <^>>*^« ^X?-*, of Samarkand, flourished in the reign of Ulagh Beg Mirza, the son of Shahrukh Mirza, and is the author of a Diwan. Badan Singh Jat, 'S^' *^ c;"^, the son of Churaman Jat, a raja of Bhartpiir and the founder of the fort at Dig. He was living at the time of Nadir Shah's invasion of India in 1739 A. D., 1152 A. H. After his death his son Surajmal Jat succeeded him, vide Churaman Jat. Badaoni, {S^J^'^ Abdul Kadir of Badaon. Badi-uddin, ivi'^^^'^- vide Shah Madar. Badi-uddin (Shaikh), ^A, of Saharanpur, was a disciple of Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi. He died in th.e year 1632 A. D., 1042 A. H., and lies buried in the yard of the masjid erected by him at Saharanpur. Badi'-uzzaman Mirza, u!)^' ^i'^. was the eldest son of Sultan Husain Mirza, after whose death in 1506 A. D., 912 A. H., he reigned conjointly with his younger brother, Muzafi'ar Husain Mirza, over Khurasan. He was subsequently compelled by the victorious Uzbaks, and the usurpation of his brother, to take refuge in 'Irak ; and in the year 1514 A. D., 920 A. H., went to the court of the Ottoman Sultan. Salim I, where, after a few months' residence, he died of the plague. He was the last of the race of Taimiir who reigned in Persia. In a work called " Ship of the Time," a Persian Anthology, there are to be found some verses of the royal poet's composition. The following is a translation of a few lines : Since not for me thy cheek of roses shines, My bosom like the fading tulip pines ; "Who in his burning heart conceals its flame, And mine, in absence, perishes the same. Pour wine — and let me as I drink suppose. I see the colours of that blushing rose ; Pour wine — and let it borrow every hue Bom in the tulip's petals wet with dew ; Till I believe thou may'st e'en yet be mine — And let me never wake, nor that sweet dream resign. Badr, J'^., poetical title of Ganga Parshad, a Hindu. Badr Chachi, cs'^^- J'^Jj, surnamed Fakhr-uz-zaman, a celebrated poet of Chach (the ancient name of Tashkand) who flourished in the reign of Sultan Muhammad Tughlak Shah, king of Dehli, and died some time after the year 1344 A. D., 745 A. H. Badr Muhammad, ^5^*^ '^♦^ of Dehli, author of the Persian Dictionary called " Adab-ul-Fuzala," dedi- cated to Kadr Khan bin Dilawar Khan, written in 1419 A. D., 822 A. H. Badr Shirwani (Maulana), ij^^jj^ j<^. a Musahnan scholar and poet who was contemporary with Katibi who died in 1435 A. D. Badr (Pir), vide Pir Badar. Badr-uddin Aintabi, i/^**:)' cH'^'U'^^, an historian who relates that the Kazi Ibn-al-Maghulf who died in 1231 A. D., 628 A. H., bequeathed a part of his va.st col- lection of books to the library of the college founded in Cairo by Malik 'Ashraf Borsabai. Badr-uddin (Balbaki), L>'^:', a Syriac phy- sician, who wrote a book called " Musarrah-al-Nafs." He lived in the 7th century of the Hijrah.