Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur Prince Emperor Page 184



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	i-khwaja of the Mlrza's going to ShaibanI Khan, he also went. As for that calamitous woman who, in her folly, gave her son's house and possessions to the winds in order to get herself a husband, ShaibanI Khan cared not one atom for her, indeed did not regard her as the equal of a mistress or a concubine.¹ Confounded by his own act, SI. 'All Mlrza's repentance was. extreme. Some of his close circle, after hearing particulars,, planned for him to escape with them but to this he would not agree; his hour had come; he was not to be freed. He had dismounted in Tlmur Sultan's quarters; three or four days later they killed him in Plough-meadow.² For a matter of this five-days' mortal life, he died with a bad name; having entered into a woman's affairs, he withdrew himself from the circle of men of good repute. Of such people's doings no more should be written ; of acts so shameful, no more should be heard. The Mirza having been killed, ShaibanI Khan sent Jan-'all after his Mirza. He had apprehensions also about Khwaja Yahya and therefore dismissed him, with his two sons, Khwaja Muh. Zakarlya and Khwaja BaqI, towards Khurasan.³ A few Auzbegs followed them and near Khwaja Kardzan martyred both the Khwaja and his two young sons. Though Shaibanl's words were, ' Not through me the Khwaja's affair ! Qarnbar BI and Kupuk BI did it,' this is worse than that! There is a proverb,⁴ ' His excuse is worse than his fault,' for if begs, out of their own heads, start such deeds, unknown to their Khans or Padshahs, what becomes of the authority of khanship and and sovereignty ? (b. Bdbur leaves Kesh and crosses the Mura pass.) Since the Auzbegs were in possession of Samarkand, we left. Kesh and went in the direction of Hisar. With us started off ¹ Muh. Salih, invoking curses on such a mother, mentions that Zuhra was given to a person of her own sort. ^a The Sh. N. and Nasrat-ndma attempt to lift the blame of 'All's death from Shaibaq ; the second saying that he fell into the Kohik-water when drunk. ³ Harat might be his destination but the U.S. names Makka. Some? dismissals towards Khurasan may imply pilgrimage to Meshhed. ⁴ Used also by Babur's daughter, Gul-badan (I.e. f. 31).