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His third battle he fought with (his brother) SI. Ahmad Mirza at a place between Shahrukhiya and Aura-tipa, named Khwas.^ Here he was beaten.

g. His country.

The Farghana country his father had given him ; Tashkint and Sairam, his elder brother, SI. Ahmad Mirza gave, and they were in his possession for a time ; Shahrukhiya he took by a ruse and held awhile. Later on, Tashkint and Shahrukhiya passed out of his hands; there then remained the Farghana country and Khujand, — some do not include Khujand in Fol. Sd. Farghana, — and Aura-tipa, of which the original name was Aurushna and which some call Aurush. In Aura-tipa, at the time SI. Ahmad Mirza went to Tashkint against the Mughuls, and was beaten on the Chir^ (893AH.-1488AD.) was Hafiz Beg Duldai; he made it over to 'Umar Shaikh M. and the Mirza held it from that time forth.

h. His children.

Three of his sons and five of his daughters grew up. I, Zahiru'd-din Muhammad Babur,^ was his eldest son ; my mother was Qutluq-nigar Khanim. Jahangir Mirza was his second son, two years younger than I ; his mother, Fatima- sultan by name, was of the Mughul tuman-begs.^ Nasir Mirza was his third son ; his mother was an Andijani, a mistress,^ named Umid. He was four years younger than I.

'Umar Shaikh Mirza's eldest daughter was Khan-zada Begim,^ my full sister, five years older than I. The second

1 The Fr. map of 1904 shows Kas, in the elbow of the Sir, which seems to represent Khwas.

2 i.e. the Chir-chik tributary of the Sir. 2 Concerning his name, see T.R. p. 173.

4 i.e. he was a head-man of a horde sub-division, nominally numbering 10,000, and paying their dues direct to the supreme Khan. (T.R. p. 301.)

5 ghunchachi i.e. one ranking next to the four legal wives, in Turki audaliq, whence odalisque. Babur and Gul-badan mention the promotion of several to Begim's rank by virtue of their motherhood.

6 One of Babur's quatrains, quoted in the Abushqa, is almost certainly addressed to Khan-zada. Cf. A.Q. Review, Jan. 1911, p. 4 ; H. Beveridge's Some verses of Babur. For an account of her marriage see Shaiadni-nama (Vambery) cap. xxxix.