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899 AH.— OCT. 12th. 1493 TO OCT. 2nd. 1494 35

broke up without a blow struck, without an effort made, without a coming face to face, and its main body was drowned in the Chir.^ His fourth affair was with Haidar Kukuldash (Mughul), near Yar-yilaq ; here he won.

q. His country.

Samarkand and Bukhara his father gave him ; Tashkint and Sairam he took and held for a time but gave them to his younger brother, 'Umar Shaikh Mirza, after 'Abdu'l-qadus (Dughlat) slew Shaikh Jamal {Arghun) Khujand and Aura- tipa were also for a time in his possession.

r. His children.

His two sons did not live beyond infancy. He had five daughters, four by Qataq Begim.^

Rabi'a-sultan Begim, known as the Dark-eyed Begim, was his eldest. The Mirza himself made her go forth to SI. Mah- mud Khan; 3 she had one child, a nice little boy, called Baba Khan. The Auzbegs killed him and several others of age as unripe as his when they martyred (his father) The Khan, in Khujand, (914 AH.-1508 AD.). At that time she fell to Jani Beg Sut^n {A iizheg). Fol. 20.

Saliha-sultan (Saliqa) Begim was his second daughter; people called her the Fair Begim. SI. Mahmud Mirza, after her father's death, took her for his eldest son, SI. Mas'ud Mirza and made the wedding feast (900 AH.). Later on she fell to the Kashghari with Shah Begim and Mihr-nigar Khanim.

'Ayisha-sultan Begim was the third. When I was five and went to Samarkand, they set her aside for me ; in the guerilla times4 she came to Khujand and I took her (905 AH.) ; her one little daughter, born after the second taking of Samarkand,

1 The T.R. (p. 116) attributes the rout to Shaibani's defection. The H.S. (ii, 192) has a varied and confused account. An error in the T.R. trs. making Shaibani plunder the Mughuls, is manifestly clerical.

2 i.e. condiment, ce qu'on ajoute au pain.

3 Cf.i.6.

4 qazaqlar ; here, if Babur's, meaning his conflicts with Tambal, but as the Begim may have been some time in Khujand, the qazaqlar may be of Samarkand.