Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur Prince Emperor Page 297



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	neither did they. All that winter they were the companions of his cups and social pleasures. They also over-ran the TarkalanI Afghans in it.¹ With the on-coming heats, the Mirza made march off the families of the clans, outside-tribes and hordes who had wintered in Nmgnahar and the Lamghanat, driving them like sheep before him, with all their goods, as far as the Ba ran -water.² {p. Affairs of Badakhshdii.) While Nasir Mfrza. was in camp on the Baran-water, he heard that the Badakhshls were united against the Auzbegs and had killed some of them. Here are the particulars : When Shaibaq Khan had given Qunduz to Qambar Bl and gone himself to Khwarizm-³; Oambar Bi, in order to conciliate the Badakhshls, sent them a son of Muhammad-i-makhdurni, Mahmud by name, but Mubarak Shah, whose ancestors are heard of as begs of the Badakhshan Shahs, having uplifted his own head, and cut off Mahmud's and those of some Auzbegs, made himself fast in the fort once known as Shaf-tiwar but re-named by him Oila'-i-zafar. Moreover, in Rustaq Muhammad qilrclu, an armourer of Khusrau Shah, then occupying Khamalangan, slew Shaibaq Khan's sadr and some Auzbegs and made that place fast. Zubair of Ragh, again, whose forefathers also will have been begs of the Badakhshan Shahs, uprose in Ragh.⁴ Jahangir Turkman, again, a servant of Khusrau Shah's Waif, collected some cf the fugitive soldiers and tribesmen Wall had left behind, and with them withdrew into a fastness.⁵ Nasir Mirza, hearing these various items of news and spurred on by the instigation of a few silly, short-sighted persons to covet Badakhshan, marched along the Shibr-tu and Ab-dara road, driving like sheep before him the families of the men who had come into Kabul from the other side of the Amu.⁶ ' They were located in Mandrawar in 926 ah. (f. 251). ¹ This was clone, manifestly, with the design of drawing after the families their fighting men, then away with Babur. ^J f. 163. Shaibaq Khan besieged Chin Sufi, SI. Husain iMlrza's man in Khwarizm (T.R. p. 204; Shaihanl-iiiima, Vambery, Table of Contents and note 89). ⁴ Survey Map 1S89, Sadda. The Kagh-water flows n.w. into the Oxus (Amu). 5 tirk, a mountain stronghold ; cf. f. 149^ note to Birk (Barak). ⁶ They were thus driven on from the Baran-water (f. 154A).