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900 AH.— OCT. 2ND. 1494 TO SEP. 21ST. 1495 A.D. 47

Mushtaq 1 took him and fled to Qambar-'ali in Hisar. From that time forth, SI. Mahmud Mirza possessed the countries lying south of Quhqa (Quhlugha) and the Kohtin Range as far as the Hindu-kush Mountains, such as Tirmiz, Chaghanian, Hisar, Khutlan, Qunduz and Badakhshan. He also held SI. Ahmad Mirza's lands, after his brother's death.

f. His children.

He had five sons and eleven daughters.

SI. Mas'ud Mirza was his eldest son ; his mother was Khan- Fol 27. zada Begim, a daughter of the Great Mir of Tirmiz. Bai- sunghar Mirza was another; his mother was Pasha (or Pasha) Begim. SI. 'Ali Mirza was another; his mother was an Auzbeg, a concubine called Zuhra Begi Agha. SI. Husain Mirza was another; his mother was Khan-zada Begim, a grand-daughter of the Great Mir of Tirmiz ; he went to God's mercy in his father's life-time, at the age of 13. SI. Wais Mirza (Mirza Khan) was another; his mother, Sultan-nigar Khanim was a daughter of Yunas Khan and was a younger (half-) sister of my mother. The affairs of these four Mirzas will be written of in this history under the years of their occurrence.

Of SI. Mahmud Mirza's daughters, three were by the same mother as Bai-sunghar Mirza. One of these, Bai-sunghar Mirza's senior, SI. Mahmiid Mirza made to go out to Malik-i- muhammad Mirza, the son of his paternal uncle, Minuchihr Mirza.2

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Five other daughters were by Khan-zada Begim, the grand- daughter of the Great Mir of Tirmiz. The oldest of these,

1 Perhaps a Sufi term, — longing for the absent friend. For particulars about this man see H.S. ii, 235 and Browne's D.S. p. 533.

2 Here in the Hai. MS. is one of several blank spaces, waiting for information presumably not known to Babur when writing. The space will have been in the archetype of the Hai. MS. and it makes for the opinion that the Hai. MS. is a direct copy of Babur's own. This space is not left in the Elph. MS. but that MS. is known from its scribe's note (f. 198) down to f. 198 (Hai. MS. f. 243b) to have been copied from " other writings " and only subsequent to its f. 198 from Babur's own. Cf. JRAS 1906 p. 88 and 1907 p. 143.