903 AH. AUC 80th. 1497 TO AUG. 19TH. 1498 AD. 85
Though Samarkand has other tumans, none rank with those enumerated; with so much, enough has been said.
Tlmur Beg gave the government of Samarkand to his eldest son, Jahanglr Mirza (in 776 AH.-1375 ad.) ; when Jahanglr Mirza. died (805 ah.-1403 ad.), he gave it to the MIrza's eldest son, Muhammad Sultan-i-jahangir; when Muhammad Sultan Mirza died, it went to Shah-rukh Mirza, Tlmur Beg's youngest son. Shah-rukh Mirza gave the whole of Ma wara'u'n-nahr (in 872 ah.-1467 ad.) to his eldest son, Aulugh Beg Mirza. From him his own son, 'Abdu'l-latlf Mirza took it, (853 ah.1449 ad.), for the sake of this five days' fleeting world martyring a father so full of years and knowledge.
The following chronogram gives the date of Aulugh Beg MIrza's death:
Aulugh Beg, an ocean of wisdom and science.
The pillar of realm and religion,
Sipped from the hand of 'Abbas, the mead of martyrdom.
And the date of the death is 'Abbas kasht ('Abbas slew).1
Though 'Abdu'l-latlf Mirza did not rule more than five or six
months, the following couplet was current about him :
111 does sovereignty befit the parricide ;
Should he rule, be it for no more than six months.2
This chronogram of the death of 'Abdu'l-latif Mirza is also well done:
'Abdu'l-latif, in glory a Khusrau and Jamshld, In his train a Faridun and Zardusht, Baba Husain slew on the Friday Eve,
With an arrow. Write as its date, Baba Husain kasht (Baba Husain slew).3
After 'Abdu'l-latif MIrza's death, (Jumada I, 22, 855 ah.June 22nd. 1450 ad.), (his cousin) 'Abdu'1-lah Mirza, the grandson of Shah-rukh Mirza through Ibrahim Mirza, seated him-
1 By abjad the words 'Abbas kasht yield 853. The date of the murder was Kamzan 9, 853 ah. (Oct. 27th. 1449 ad.).
This couplet is quoted in the Rauzatu's-safa (lith. ed. vi, f. 234 foot) and ^,y^e ^'S- ". 44- It is said, in the R.S. to be by Nizami and to refer to the ?~Jng by ShirQya of his father, Khusrau Parwiz in 7 ah. (628 ad.). The savs that 'Abdu'l-latif constantly repeated the couplet, after he had ""irdered his father. [See also Daulat Shah (Browne p. 356 and p. 366.) H.B. By abjad, Baba Hnsain kasht yields 854. The death was on Rabi' I, 26, 54 ah. (May 9th. 1450 ad.). See R.S. vi, 235 for an account of this death.
