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FARGHANA
horse, spitted and roasted its flesh, rested our horses awhile and rode on. Very weary, we reached Khallla-village before the dawn and dismounted. From there it was gone on to Dizak.
In Dizak just then was Hafiz Muh. DuldaVs son, Tahir. There, in Dizak, were fat meats, loaves of fine flour, plenty of sweet melons and abundance of excellent grapes. From what privation we came tc such plenty! From what stress to what repose!
From fear and hunger rest we won (amanl laptiiq) ;
A fresh world's new-born life we won (jahani taptuq). From out our minds, death's dread was chased {raja' buldX) ;
From our men the hunger-pang kept back (dafa' biildl).1
Never in all our lives had we felt such relief! never in the whole course of them have we appreciated security and plenty so highly. Joy is best and more delightful when it follows sorrow, ease after toil. I have been transported four or five times from toil to rest and from hardship to ease.2 This was the first. We were set free from the affliction of such a foe and from the pangs of hunger and had reached the repose of security and the relief of abundance.
(c. Bdbur in Dikh-kat.)
After three or four days of rest in Dizak, we set out for Auratipa. Pashaghar is a little3 off the road but, as we had occupied it for some time (904 ah.), we made an excursion to it in passing by. In Pashaghar we chanced on one of Khanim's old servants, a teacher4 who had been left behind in Samarkand from want of a mount. We saw one another and on questioning her, I found she had come there on foot.
Khub-nigar Khanim, my mother Khanim's younger sister5
1 The texts differ as to whether the last two lines are prose or verse. All four are in Turki, but I surmise a clerical error in the refrain of the third, where buliib is written for biildi.
3 The second was in 908 ah. (f. 186) ; the third in 914 ah. (f. 216 6) ; the fourth is not described in the B.N. ; it followed Babur's defe'at at Ghaj-diwan in 918 ah. (Erskine's History of India, i, 325). He had a fifth, but of a different kind, when he survived poison in 933 ah. (f. 305).
3 llai. MS. qaqasraq ; Elph. MS. ydnasraq.
i atun, one who instructs in reading, writing and embroidery. Cf. Gulbadan's H.N. f. 26 The distance walked may have been 70 or 80 m.
i She was the wift of the then Governor of Aura-tipa, Muli. Ilusain Dughlat
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