910 AH. JUNE 14th 1504 TO JUNE 4th 1505 AD. 245
Qunduz, changed in their demeanour to me,1 most of them marching off to near Khwaj'a-i-riwaj.2 The greater number of the men in my service had been in his. The Mughuls behaved well, taking up a position of adherence to me. 3 On all this the news of Khusrau Shah's death fell like water on fire ; it put his men out.
■ f. 124.
* Khwaja-of-the-rhubarb, presumably a shrine near rhubarb-grounds (i. 1296).
3 yakshi bcirdilar, lit. went well, a common expression in the Babur-numa, of which the reverse statement is yamanhk bila bardi (f. 163). Some Persian MSS. make the Mughuls disloyal but this is not only in opposition to the TurkI text, it is a redundant statement since if disloyal, they are included in Babur's previous statement, as being Khusrau Shah's retainers. What might call for comment in Mughuls would be loyalty lo Habur.
