From there we went to Unju-tupa, one of the villages of Aush, and there dismounted. When Tambal retired from Andijan and went into the Rabat-i-sarhang sub-district, he dismounted in a village called Ab-i-khan. Between him and me may have been one yighdch (5 m. ?). At such a time as this, Qambar-'ali (the Skinner) on account of some sickness, went into Aush.
It was lain in Unju-tupa a month or fon.y days without a battle, but day after day our foragers and theirs got to grips. All through the time our camp was mightily well watched at night; a ditch was dug; where Tib ditch was, branches were set close together;1 we also made our soldiers go out in their mail along the ditch. Spite of such watchfulness, a night-alarm was given every two or three days, and the cry to arms went up. One day when SayyidI Beg Taghai had gone out with the foragers, the enemy came up suddenly in greater strength and took him prisoner right out of the middle of the fight.
(6. Bai-sunghar Mirza murdered by Khusrau Shuh.)
Khusrau Shah, having planned to lead an army against Balkh, in this same year invited Bai-sunghar Mirza to go with him, brought him2 to Qiinduz and rode out with him for Balkh. But when they reached the Aubaj ferry, that ungrateful infidel, Khusrau Shah, in his aspiration to sovereignty, and to what sort of sovereignty, pray, could such a no-body attain ? a person of no merit, no birth, no lineage, no judgment, no magnanimity, no justice, no legal-mindedness, laid hands on Bai-sunghar Mirza with his begs, and bowstrung the Mirza. It was upon the 10th. of the month of Muharram (August 17th.) that he martyred that scion of sovereignty, so accomplished, so sweetnatured and so adorned by birth and lineage. Ha killed also a few of the Mirza's begs and household.
(c. Bai-sunghar Mirza's birth and descent.)
He was born in 882 (1477 ad.), in the Hi?5r district. He was SI. Mahmiid Mirza's second son, younger than SI. Mas'ud
1 shakh tululur idl, perhaps a palisade.
3 i.e. from Hisar where he had placed him in 903 ah.
