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of Bukhara, put to a dishonourable ^eieath on the charge of their master's blood.
(e. Bdbur moves against Samarkand).
These news reached us in Andijan in the month of Shawwal (mid-June to mid-July) and as we (act. 14) coveted Samarkand, we got our men to horse. Moved by a like desire, SI. Mas'iid Mirza., his mind and Khusrau Shah's mind set at ease by SI. Husain Mirza's retirement, came over by way of Shahr-i-sabz. To reinforce him, Khusrau Shah laid hands (qdptl) on his younger brother, Wall. We (three mirzas) beleaguered the town from three sides during three or four months; then Khwaja Yahya came to me from SI. 'All Mirza. to mediate an agreement with a common aim. The matter was left at an interview arranged (kiirushmak); I moved my force from Soghd to some 8m. below the town; SI. 'All Mirza. from his side, brought his own; from one bank, he, from the other, I crossed to the middle of2 the Kohik water, each with four or five men; we just saw one another (kurushub), asked each the other's welfare and went, he his way, I mine.
I there saw, in Khwaja Yahya's service, Mulla Bind'i and Muhammad Salih ;3 the latter I saw this once, the former was long in my service later on. After the interview {kurushkan) with SI. 'All Mlrza, as winter was near and as there was no great scarcity amongst the Samarkandis, we retired, he to Bukhara, I to Andijan
SI. Mas'iid Mlrza had a penchant for a daughter of Shaikh 'Abdu'1-lah Barlds, she indeed was his object in coming to Samarkand. He took her, laid world-gripping ambition aside and went back to Hisar
When I was near Shiraz and Kan-bai, Mahdi SI. deserted to Samarkand; Hamza SI. went also from near Zamln but'with leave granted.
1 i.e. over the Aitmak Pass. Cf. t. 49. 3 Hai. MS. arallghlgha. Elph. MS. aril, island.
3 See f. 1796 for Bina'i. Muhammad Salih Mirza Khwariznii is the author of the Shaibani-nima.
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