903 AH. AUG. 30th. 1497 TO AUG. 19th. 1498 AD. 93
f. Affairs of Khusrau Shah and the Tlmurid Mirzds).'
This year Khusrau Shah, taking Bai-sunghar Mirza. with him, led his army (from Qunduz) to Chaghanian and with false and treacherous intent, sent this message to Hisar for SI. Mas'ud Mirza, ' Come, betake yourself to Samarkand; if Samarkand is taken, one Mirza may seat himself there, the other in Hisar.' Just at the time, the Mirza's begs and household were displeased with him, because he had shewn excessive favour to his father-in-law, Shaikh 'Abdu'1-la.h Barlds who from Bal-sunghar Mirza. had gone to him. Small district though Hisar is, the Mirza had made the Shaikh's allowance 1,000 iilindus of fulus2 and had given him the whole of Khutlan in which were the holdings of many of the Mirza's begs and household. All this Shaikh 'Abdu'1-lah had; he and his sons took also in whole and in part, the control of the Mirza's gate. Those angered began, one after the other, to desert to Balsunghar Mirza.
By those words of false alloy, having put SI. Mas'ud Mirza off his guard, Khusrau Shah and Bai-sunghar Mirza moved light out of Chaghanian, surrounded Hisar and, at beat of morning-drum, took possession of it. SI. Mas'ud Mirza was in Daulat Sarai, a house his father had built in the suburbs. Not being able to get into the fort, he drew off towards Khutlan with Shaikh 'Abu'1-la.h Barlds, parted. from him half-way, crossed the river at the Aubaj ferry and betook himself to SI. Husain Mirza. Khusrau Shah, having taken Hisar, set Baisunghar Mirza. on the throne, gave Khutlan to his own younger brother, Wali and rode a few days later, to lay siege to Balkh where, with many of his father's begs, was Ibrahim Husain Mirza (Bdl-qard). He sent Nazar Bahadur, his chief retainer, on in advance with 3 or 406 men to near Balkh, and himself taking Bai-sunghar Mirza with him, followed and laid the siege.
1 Here the narrative picks up the thread of Khusrau Shah's affairs, dropped on f. 44.
.2 mhin tuman fulus, i.e. a thousand sets-of-ten-thousand small copper coins. Mr. Erskine (Mems. p. 61) here has a note on coins. As here the tuman does not seem to be a coin but a number, I do not reproduce it, valuable as it is Per se.
