The Sun was a spear's-length high " when we reached the foot of the Sanjid (Jujube)-valley and dismounted. Our scouting braves fell in with Sherak below the Qara-bagh,2 near Alkarlyar, and straightway got to grips with him. After a little of some sort of fighting, our men took the upper hand, hurried their adversaries off, unhorsed 70-80' serviceable braves and brought them in. We gave Sherak his life and he took service with us.
(t. Death of Wall of Khusrau?)
The various clans and tribes whom Khusrau Shah, without troubling himself about them, had left in Qunduz, and also the Mughul horde, were in five or six bodies ibuldk). One of those belonging to Badakhshan, it was the Rusta-hazara, came, with Sayyidlm 'All darban,3 across the Panjhlr-pass to this camp, did me obeisance and took service with me. Another body came under Ayub's Yusuf and Ayub's Bihlul ; it also took service with me. Another came from Khutlan, under Khusrau Shah's younger brother, Wall; another, consisting of the (Mughul) tribesmen (aimaq) who had been located in Yllanchaq, Nikdiri (?), and the Qunduz country, came also. The lastnamed two came by Andar-ab and Sar-i-ab,4 meaning to cross by the Panjhlr-pass ; at Sar-i-ab the tribesmen were ahead ; Wall came up behind ; they held the road, fought and beat him. He himself fled to the Auzbegs,5 and Shaibaq Khan had his head struck off in the Square (Char-sit) of Samarkand ; his followers, beaten and plundered, came on with the tribesmen, and like these, took service with me. With them came Sayyid Yusuf Beg (the Grey-wolfer).
(_/'. Kabul gained?)
From that camp we marched to the Aq-sarai meadow of the Qara-bagh and there dismounted. Khusrau Shah's people were
1 "Die Kirghis-qazzaqdriickendieSonnen-hohe in Pikenaus" (von Schwarz, p. 124V
2 presumably, dark with shade, as in qara-ylghdch, the hard-wood elm (f. 47b and note to narwaji).
3 i.e. Sayyid Muhammad 'All, the door-ward. These bttlaks seem likely to have been groups of 1,000 fighting-men (Turki Ming).
* In-the-water and Water-head.
5 Wall went from his defeat to Khwast; wrote to Mahmud Auzbeg in Qunduz to ask protection ; was fetched to Qunduz by Muh Salih, the author of the Shaibaninapia, and forwarded from Qunduz (9 Samarkand (Sh. N. cap. lxiii). Cf. f. 29^.
