903 AH. AUG. 30th. 1497 TO AUG. 12th. 1498 AD. 95
Harat), he was surprised by Badi'u'z-zaman Mirza and Shah Shuja' Beg (Arghun). By unexpected good-fortune, he had been" joined that very day by SI. Mas'ud Mirza, a refugee after bringing about the loss of Hisar,1 and also rejoined by a force of his own returning from Astarabad. There was no question of fighting. Badi'u'z-zaman Mirza and Shah Beg, brought face to face with these armies, took to flight.
Si. Husain Mirza. looked kindly on SI. Mas'ud Mirza, made him kneel as a son-in-law and gave him a place in his favour and affection. None-the-less SI. Mas'ud Mirza, at the instigation of BaqI Chaghdnldm, who had come earlier into SI. Husain Mirza's service, started off on some pretext, without asking leave, and went from the presence of SI. Husain Mirza to that of Khusrau Shah!
Khusrau Shah had already invited and brought from Hisar, Bai-sunghar Mirza; to him had gone Auliigh Beg Mirza's son,2 Miran-shah Mirza. who, having gone amongst the Hazara in rebellion against his father, had been unable to remain amongst them because of his own immoderate acts. Some short-sighted persons were themselves ready to kill these three (Tlmurid) Mirzas and to read Khusrau Shah's name in the khu$a but he himself did not think this combination desirable. The ungrateful manikin however, for the sake of gain in this five days' fleeting world, it was not true to him nor will it be true to any man soever, seized that SI, Mas'ud Mirza whom he had seen grow up in his charge from childhood, whose guardian he had been, and blinded him with the lancet
Some of the Mirza's foster-brethren and friends of affection and old servants took him to Kesh intending to convey him to his (half)-brother SI. 'AH Mirza in Samarkand but as that party also {i.e. 'All's) became threatening, they fled with him, crossed the river at the Aubaj ferry and went to SI. Husain Mirza.
1 Cf. i. 566.
" known as Kabuli. He was a son of Abfi-sa'id and thus an uncle of Babur. He ruled Kabul and Ghaznl from a date previous to his father's death in 8?3 ah. (perhaps from the time 'Umar Shaikh was not sent there, in 870 ah. fe« f. 66) to his death in 907 ah. Babur was his virtual successor in Kabul, hi 910 ah.
