Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur Prince Emperor Page 75



	899 AH. OCT. 12th. 1498 TO OCT. 2ND. 1494 19 of our leisure (fursatlar)¹ has come news that she'has gone to God's mercy. i. His ladies and mistresses. Qutluq-nigar Khanim was the second daughter of Yunas Khan and the eldest (half-) sister of SI. Mahmud Khan and Si. Ahmad Khan. '(/. Interpolated account of Babur's mother's family.) Yunas Khan descended from Chaghatal Khan, the second son of Chlngiz Khan (as follows,) Yunas Khan, son of Wais Khan, son pf Sher-'ali Aughlan, son of Muhammad Khan, son of Khizr Khwaja Khan, son of Tughluq-tlmur Khan, son of Alsan-bugha Khan, son of Dawa Khan, son of Baraq Khan, son of Ylsuntawa Khan, son of Muatukan, son of Chaghatal Khan, son of Chlngiz Khan. Since such a chance has come, set thou down⁸ now a summary of the history of the Khans. Yunas Khan (d. 892 AH.-1487 ad.) and Alsan-bugha Khan (d. 866 AH.-T462 ad.) were sons of Wais Khan (d. 832 ah.1428 ad.).³ Yunas Khan's mother was either a daughter or a grand-daughter of Shaikh Nuru'd-din Beg, a Turkistani Qipchaq favoured by Tlmur Beg. When Wais Khan died, the Mughul horde split in two, one portion being for Yunas Khan, the greater for Alsan-bugha Khan. For help in getting the upper hand in the horde, Alrzin (var. Alrazan) one of the Barin tuman-begs and Beg Mirik Turkman, one of the Chlras timan-begs, took Yunas Khan (aet. 13) and with him three or four thousand Mughul heads of houses (awlluq), to Aulugh Beg Mirza (Shahrukhi) with the fittingness that Aulugh Beg M. had taken Yunas Khan's elder sister for his'son, 'Abdu'l- ¹ This jatrat (interregnum) was between Babur's loss of Farghana and his .gain of Kabul; the fursatlar were his days of ease following su cess iD Hindustan and allowing his book to be written. ³ qlldling, lit. do thou be (setting down), a verbal form recurring on f. 2276 1-2. With the same form (ait)dllng, lit. do thou be saying, thfcompiler of the Abushqa introduces his quotations. Shaw's paradigm, qiling only. Cf. A.Q.R. j_an. 1911, p. 2. ³ Kehr's MS. (Ilminsky p. 12) and its derivatives here interpolate the erroneous statement that the sons of Yunas were Afaq and Baba Khans.