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i8 FARGHANA

time I took Samarkand (905AH.-1500AD.), spite of defeat at Sar-i-pul,^ I went back and held it through a five months' siege, but as no sort of help or reinforcement came from any beg or ruler thereabouts, I left it in despair and got away ; in that throneless time {fatrat) Khan-zada Begim fell 2 to Muhammad Shaibani Khan. She had one child by him, a pleasant boy,^ Fol. 9. named Khurram Shah. The Balkh country was given to him ; he went to God's mercy a few years after the death of his father (9i6AH.-i5i0AD.). Khan-zada Begim was in Merv when Shah Isma'il (Safawi) defeated the Auzbegs near that town (916AH.-1510AD.) ; for my sake he treated her well, giving her a sufficient escort to Qunduz where she rejoined me. We had been apart for some ten years; when Muhammadi kukuldash and I went to see her, neither she nor those about her knew us, although I spoke. They recognized us after a time.

Mihr-banu Begim was another daughter, Nasir Mirza's full- sister, two years younger than I. Shahr-banu Begim was another, also Nasir Mirza's full-sister, eight years younger than I. Yadgar-sultan Begim was another, her mother was a mistress, called Agha-sultan. Ruqaiya-sultan Begim was another ; her mother, Makhdum-sultan Begim, people used to call the Dark-eyed Begim. The last-named two were born after the Mirza's death. Yadgar-sultan Begim was brought up by my grandmother, Aisan-daulat Begim ; she fell to 'Abdu'l-latif SI., a son of Hamza SI. when Shaibani Khan took Andijan and Akhsi (908AH.-1503AD.). She rejoined me when (917AH.-1511AD.) in Khutlan I defeated Hamza SI. and other sultans and took Hisar. Ruqaiya-sultan Begim fell in that Fol. gd. same throneless time (fatrat) to Jani Beg SI. (Auzbeg). By him she had one or two children who did not live. In these days

1 Kehr's MS. has a passage here not found elsewhere and seeming to be an adaptation of what is at the top of IIai. MS. f. 88. (Ilminsky, p. 10, ba wujud . . . tapib.)

2 tushti, which here seems to mean that she fell to his share on division 01 captives, Mu . Salih makes it a love-match and places the marriage befor Babur's departure. Cf. f. 95 and notes.

3 aughlan. Khurram would be about :five when given Balkh in circa 911 AH. (1505 AD.). He died when about 12. Cf. II. S. ii, 364.

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