908 AH. JULY 7th. 1502 TO JUNE 26th. 1503 AD. 169
for you through them. You have in your hands Aush, Marghlnan, Auzklnt and the cultivated land and the tribes and the hordes; go you to Aush; make that fort fast; send a man to Tarnbal, make peace with him, then strike at the Mughul and drive him out. After that, divide the districts into an elder and a younger brother's shares.' 'Would that be right?' said I. ' The Khans are my blood relations; better serve them than rule for Tambal.' He saw that his words had made no impression, so turned back, sorry he had spoken. I went on to see my Younger Khan Dada. At our first interview, I had come upon him without announcement and he had no time to dismount, so it was all rather unceremonious. This time I got even nearer perhaps, and he ran out as far as the end of the tentropes. I was walking with some difficulty because of the wound in my leg. We met and renewed acquaintance; then he said, ' You are talked about as a hero, my young brother!' took my arm and led me into his tent. The tents pitched were rather small and through his having grown up in an out-of-theway place, he let the one he sat in be neglected; it was like a raider's, melons, grapes, saddlery, every sort of thing, in his sitting-tent. I went from his presence straight back to my own camp and there he sent his Mughul surgeon to examine my wound. Mughuls call a surgeon also a bakhshi; this one was called Ataka Bakhshi.1
He was a very skilful surgeon; if a man's brains had come out, he would cure it, and any sort of wound in an artery he easily healed. For some wounds his remedy was in form of a plaister, for some medicines had to be taken. He ordered a bandage tied on2 the wound in my leg and put no seton in ; once he made me eat something like a fibrous root (ylldiz). He told me himself, ' A certain man had his leg broken in the slender part and the bone was shattered for the breadth of the hand. I cut the flesh open and took the bits of bone outWhere they had been, I put a remedv in powder-form. That
Elph. MS. yakhshi. Zenker explains bakhshi (pav-master) as meaning also a Court-physician.
-The Ilai. Elph. and Kehr's MS. all have puckqaq taqmaq or it may be pu/,qdq taqmaq. T. bukhaq means bandage, puchaq, rind of fruit, but the w°rd clear in the three Turk! MSS. means, skin of a fox's leg.
