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His third battle he fought with (his brother) SI. Ahmad Mlrza at a place between Shahrukhiya and Aura-tipa, named j^fiwas.1 Here he was beaten.
a. His country.
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The Farghana country his father had given him; TashkTnt and Sairam, his elder brother, SI. Ahmad MTrza gave, and they were in his possession for a time ; Shahrukhiya he took by a ruse and held awhile. Later on, TashkTnt and Shahrukhiya passed out of his hands; there then remained the Farghiina country and Khujand, some do not include Khujand in Farghana, and Aura-tipa, of which the original name was Afirushna and which some call Auriish. In Aura-tipa, at the time SI. Ahmad Mlrza went to TashkTnt against the Mughuls, and was beaten on the Chlr2 (893AH.-1488AD.) was Hafiz Beg Diildal; he made it over to 'Umar Shaikh M. and the Mlrza held it from that time forth.
h. His children.
Three of his sons and five of his daughters grew up. I, Zahlru'd-dln Muhammad Babur,3 was his eldest son; my mother was Qutluq-nigar Khanlm. Jahanglr Mlrza was his second son, two years younger than I; his mother, Fatimasultan by name, was of the Mughiil tumdn-begs.4 Nasir Mlrza was his third son ; his mother was an AndijanT, a mistress,5 named Umld. He was four years younger than I.
'Umar Shaikh Mirza's eldest daughter was Khan-zada Beglm,6 my full sister, five years older than I. The second
1 The Fr. map of 1904 shows Kas, in the elbow ot tne Sir. which seems to represent Khwas.
2 i.e. the Chir-chik tributary of the Sir.
3 Concerning his name, see T.R. p. 173.
4 i.e. he was a head-man of a horde sub-division, nominally numbering 'o.ooo, 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 auddllq, whence odalisque. Babur and Gul-badan mention the promotion of several to "egim's rank by virtue of their motherhood.
One of Babur's quatrains, quoted in the Abiishqd, 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 Shaibani-ndtua (Vambery) cap. xxxix.
