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48 FARGHANA

(Khan-zada Begim)^ was given, after her father's death, to Aba- Foi. 27b. bikr {Dughlat) Kashghari. The second was Bega Begim. When SI. Husain Mirza besieged Hisar (901 AH.), he took her for Haidar Mirza, his son by Payanda Begim, SI. Abu-sa'id Mirza s daughter, and having done so, rose from before the place.^ The third daughter was Aq (Fair) Begim; the fourth^ — ,was betrothed to Jahangir Mirza {act. 5, circa 895 AH.) at the time his father, 'Umar Shaikh Mirza sent him to help SI. Mahmud Mirza with the Andijan army, against SI. Husain Mirza, then attacking Qunduz.^ In 910 AH. (1504 AD.) when Baqi Chaghdn- iani^ waited on me on the bank of the Amu (Oxus), these (last-named two) Begims were with their mothers in Tirmiz and joined me then with Baqi's family. When we reached Kahmard, Jahangir Mirza took Begim; one little daughter was born ; she now^ is in the Badakhshan country with her grandmother. The fifth daughter was Zainab-sultan Begim ; under my mother's insistance, I took her at the time of the capture of Kabul (910 AH.-Oct. 1504 AD.). She did not become very congenial ; two or three years later, she left the world, through small-pox. Another daughter was Makhdum- sultan Begim, SI. 'Ali Mirza's full-sister; she is now in the Badakhshan country. Two others of his daughters, Rajab- sultan and Muhibb-sultan, were by mistresses (ghunchachi),

g. His ladies (khwatinlar) and concubines (sarari).

His chief wife, Khan-zada Begim, was a daughter of the Foi. 28. Great Mir of Tirmiz ; he had great affection for her and must have mourned her bitterly ; she was the mother of SI. Mas'ud Mirza. Later on, he took her brother's daughter, also called Khan-zada Begim, a grand-daughter of the Great Mir of Tirmiz.

1 The T.R. (p. 330) supplies this name.

2 Cf. i. 35b. This was a betrothal only, the marriage being made in 903 AH. Cf. H.S. ii, 260 and Gul-badan's H.N. f. 24b.

3 Kehr's MS. supplies Ai (Moon) as her name but it has no authority. The Elph. MS. has what may be Ia nam, no name, on its margin and over turutunchi (4th.) its usual sign of what is problematical.

4 See H.S. ii, 250. Here Pir-i-Muhammad Ailchi-bugha was drowned. Cf. f . 29. *

5 Chaghanian is marked in Erskine's (Mems.) map as somewhere about the head of (Fr. map 1904) the Ilyak Water, a tributary of the Kafir-nighan.

6 i.e. when Babur was writing in Hindustan.