Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 208.5.6

208.5.6

He was surnamed Bégra, or Bé Gurra. Historians differ with regard to the origin of this appellation: some assert it was given to him because bégra signifies curled, as the horns of a cow, alluding to the shape which his mustachios assumed. Shah Judeecowa Deen Hoosein, however, in his history, gives his opinion in these words:— “The word bé, in the Guzeratty language, signifies two, and gurra a hill-fort, from whence the name Bé Gurra, derived from Mahmood Shah, having reduced two hill-forts on the opposite sides of his dominions, before deemed impregnable; viz. Girnal on the west, and Champaneere on the east.” This derivation appears to me sufficiently rational and probable.