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40 FARGHANA

I took Samarkand, he came to my presence and each time I shewed him very great favour. He died in the fight at Kul-i- malik (918 AH.-1512 AD.).

Baqi Tarkhan was another, the son of 'Abdu'l-'ali Tarkhan and SI. Ahmad Mirza's aunt. When his father died, they gave him Bukhara. He grew in greatness under SI. 'Ali Mirza, his retainers numbering 5 or 6,000. He was neither obedient nor very submissive to SI. 'All Mirza. He fought Shaibani Khan at Dabusi (905AH.) and was crushed ; by the help of this defeat, Shaibani Khan went and took Bukhara. He was very fond of hawking; they say he kept 700 birds. His manners and habits were not such as may be told ;^ he grew up with a Mirza's state and splendour. Because his father had shewn favour to Shaibani Khan, he went to the Khan's presence, but that inhuman ingrate made him no sort of return in favour and kind- Fol. 23. ness. He left the world at Akhsi, in misery and wretchedness.

SI.Husain Arghinw was another. He was known as Qara- kuli because he had held the Qara-kul government for a time. His judgment and counsel were excellent ; he was long in my presence also.

Quli Muhammad Bughda^ was another, a quchin; he must have been a brave man.

'Abdu'l-karim Ishrit^ was another; he was an Auighur, SI. Ahmad Mirza's Lord of the Gate, a brave and generous man.

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After SI. Ahmad Mirza's death, his begs in agreement, sent a courier by the mountain-road to invite SI. Mahmud Mirza.4 Malik-i-Muhammad Mirza, the son of Minuchihr Mirza, SI.

1 andaq ikhlaq u atawari yuq idi kim disa bulghai. The Shah-nama cap. xviii, describes him as a spoiled child and man of pleasure, caring only for eating, drinking and hunting. The Shaibani-nama narrates his various affairs.

2 i.e., cutlass, a parallel sobriquet to qilich. sword. If it be correct to translate by " cutlass," the nickname may have prompted Babur's brief following comment, mardana ikan dur, i.e. Quli Muh. must have been brave because known as the Cutlass. A common variant in MSS. from Bughda is Baghdad ; Baghdad was first written in the Hai. MS. but is corrected by the scribe to bughda.

3 So pointed in the Hai. MS. I surmise it a clan-name.

4 i.e. to offer him the succession. The mountain road taken from Aura-tipa would be by Ab-burdan. Sara-taq and the Kam Rud defile.

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