910 AH. JUNE 14TH 1504 TO JUNE 4th 1505 AD. 189
express his good wishes and his desire for aHiance, and, after we had crossed the Amu at the Aubaj-ferry, he came himself to wait on me. By his wish we moved down the river to opposite Tlrmlz, where, without fear [or, without going over himself],1 he had their families 2 and their goods brought across to join us. This done, we set out together for Kahmard and Bamlan, then held by his son3 Ahmad-i-qasim, the son of Khusrau Shah's sister. Our plan was to leave the households (awi-ail) safe in Fort Ajar of the Kahmard-valley and to take action wherever action might seem well. At Albak, Yar-'all Balal,4 who had fled from Khusrau Shah, joined us with several braves ; he had been with me before, and had made good use of his sword several times in my presence, but was parted from me in the recent throneless times5 and had gone to .Khusrau Shah. He represented to me that the Mughuls in Khusrau Shah's service wished me well. Moreover, Qambar-'all Beg, known also as Qambar-'all Silakh (Skinner), fled tq me after we reached the Zindan-valley.6
{c. Occurrences in Kahmard?)
We reached Kahmard with three or four marches and deposited our households and families in Ajar. While we stayed there, Jahanglr Mlrza married (Al Beglm) the'daughter of SI. Mahmud Mlrza and Khan-zada Beglm, who had been set aside for him during the lifetime of the Mlrzas.7
Meantime Baqi Beg urged it upon me, again and again, that two rulers in one country, or two chiefs in one army are a source of faction and disorder a foundation of dissension and ruin.
' bl baqi or bl Baqi; perhaps a play of words with the double meaning expressed in the above translation.
s Amongst these were widows and children of Babur's uncle, Mahmud (f. 27b).
3 aughul. As being' the son of Khusrau's sister, Ahmad was nephew to Baqi; there may be in the text a scribe's slip from one aughul to another, and the real statement be that Ahmad was the son of BaqI's son, Muh. Qasim, which would account for his name Ahmad-i-qasim.
* Cf. f. 67.
3 Babur's loss of rule in Farghana and Samarkand.
6 about 7 miles south of Albak, on the road to Sar-i-tagh (mountain-head, Erskine).
7 viz. the respective fathers, Mahmud and 'Umar Shaikh. The arrangement was made in 895 ah. (1490 ad.).
