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18 FARGHANA
time I took Samarkand (905AH.-1500AD.), spite of defeat at Sar-i-pul,11 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 Beglm fell1 to Muhammad Shaibam Khan. She had one child by him, a pleasant boy,3 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 (916AH.-1510AD.). Khan-zada Beglm was in Merv when Shah Isma'll (Safawl) 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 Muhammad! kukulddsh and I went to see her, neither she nor those about her knew us, although I spoke. They recognized us after a time.
Mihr-banG Beglm was another daughter, Nasir Mirza's fullsister, two years younger than I. Shahr-banQ Beglm 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 Beglm was another; her mother, Makhdum-sultan Beglm, people used to call the Dark-eyed Beglm. The last-named two were born after the Mirza's death. Yadgar-sultan Begim was brought up by my grandmother, Alsan-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 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 daptation of what is at the top of Ilai. MS. f. 88. (Ilminsky, p. 10, ba vouiud . . tapib.)
2 tiishtl, which here seems to mean that she fell to his share on division of captives. Muh. Salita makes it a love-match and places the marriage before Babur's departure. Cf. f. 95 and notes.
3 aughldn. Khurram would be about f\ve when given Balkh in circa 911 ah. (1505 ad.). He died when about 12. Cf. II.S. ii, 364.
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