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Section 1: Fergana and Transoxiana

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905 AH. AUG. 8th. 1499 TO JULY 28th. 1500 AD.           m
M. and older than SI. 'AH M. and SI. Husain M. and SJ. Wais ti. known as KhSn Mirza. His mother was Pasha Begim.
(d. His appearance and characteristics.)
He had large eyes, a fleshy face1 and Turkman features, was of middle height and altogether an elegant young man (aet. 22).
(e. His qualities and manners.)
He was just, humane, pleasant-natured and a most accomplished scion of sovreignty. His tutor, Sayyid Mahmiid,2 presumably was a Shi'a; through this he himself became infected by that heresy. People said that latterly, in Samarkand, he reverted from that evil belief to the pure Faith. He was much addicted to wine but on his non-drinking days, used to go through the Prayers.8 He was moderate in gifts and liberality. He wrote the naskh-ta'liq character very well; in painting also his hand was not bad. He made 'Adili his pen-name and composed good verses but not sufficient to form a dlwan. Here is the opening couplet (matla') of one of them4;
Like a wavering shadow I fall here and there ;
If not propped by a wall, I drop flat on the ground.
In such repute are his odes held in Samarkand, that they are to be found in most houses.
</. His battles.)
He fought two ranged battles. One, fought when he was first seated on the throne (900 ah.-1495 ad.), was with SI. Mahmiid Khan6 who, incited and stirred up by SI. Junaid Barlas and others to desire Samarkand, drew an army out, 1 crossed the Aq-kutal and went to Rabat-i-soghd and Kan-baL Bai-sunghar Mirza went out from Samarkand, fought him near
* giiba yuzluq (f. 66 and note 4). The Turkman features would be a maternal inheritance.
2  He is " SaifiMaulana 'Ariizi " of Rieu'sPers. Cat. p. 525. Cf. H.S. ii, 341. His book, 'Aruz-i-saifl has been translated by Blochmann and by Ranking.
3  namaz aiitdr idl. I understand some irony from this (de Meynard's Diet. -«.«. autmaq).
4  The matla' of poems serve as an index of first lines. s C/.L30.
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