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his army was reckoned at 300,000 men. On his death the Khanim went to SI. Sa'id Khan's presence in Kashghar. Daulat-sultan Khanim was Yunas Khan's youngest child. Foi. h. In the Tashkint disaster (908 AH.) she fell to Timur Sultan, the son of ShaibanI Khan. By him she had one daughter; they got out of Samarkand with me (918 AH.- 1512 AD.), spent three or four years in the Badakhshan country, then went (923 AH.- 1420 adAD.) to SI. Sa'id Khan's presence in Kashghar.^
(K. Account resumed of Bdbur's father's family.)
In 'Umar Shaikh Mirza's haram was also Aulus Agha, a daughter of Khwaja Husain Beg ; her one daughter died in infancy and they sent her out of the haram a year or eighteen months later. Fatima-sultan Agha was another; she was of the Mughul tuman-begs and the first taken of his wives. Qara- guz (Makhdum sultan) Begim was another; the Mirza took her towards the end of his life ; she was much beloved, so to please him, they made her out descended from (his uncle) Minuchihr Mirza, the elder brother of SI. Abu-sa'id Mirza. He had many mistresses and concubines; one, Umid Aghacha died before him. Latterly there were also Tun-sultan (var. Yun) of the Mughuls and Agha Sultan.
l. 'Umar Shaikh Mirza's Amirs.
There was Khudai-birdi Tughchi Timur-tash, a descendant of the brother of Aq-bugha Beg, the Governor of Hiri (Herat, for Timur Beg.) When SI. Abu-sa'id Mirza, after besieging Juki Mirza {Shdhrukhl) in Shahrukhiya (868AH.-1464AD.) gave the Farghana country to 'Urnar Shaikh Mirza, he put this Khudai- Fol. 13. birdi Beg at the head of the Mirza's Gate.^ Khudai-blrdi was
1 Sa'id's power to protect made him the refuge of several kinswomen mentioned in the B.N. and the T.R. This mother and child reached Kashghar in 932 AH. (1526 AD.).
Here Babur ends his [interpolated] account of his mother's family and resumes that of his father's.
2 Babur uses a variety of phrases to express Lordship in the Gate. Here he writes aishikni bashlatib ; elsewhere, aishik ikhtiyari qilmaq and mining aishikimda sdhib ikhtiyari qilmaq. Von Schwarz (p. 159) throws light on the duties of the Lord of the Gate {Aishlk Aghasi). " Das Thur . . . fuhrt in eine
