911 AH. JUNE 4th 1505 to MAY 24th 1506 AD. 261
Again, he fought his son Badi'u'z-zaman Mlrza in the jJlshln-meadow, who had come there with Zu'n-nun's son, Shall Be°~ (9°3 AH.). In that affair were these curious coincidences : The Mirza's force will have been small, most of his men being in Astarabad ; on the very day of the fight, one force rejoined him coming back from Astarabad, and SI. Mas'ud Mlrza arrived to join SI. Husain Mlrza after letting Bal-sunghar Mlrza take Hisar, and Haidar Mlrza came back from reconnoitring Badi'u'zzaman Mlrza at Sabzawar.
(d.) His countries.
His country was Khurasan, with Balkh to the east, Bistam and Damghan to the west, Khwarizm to the north, Qandahar and Sistan to the south. When he once had in his hands such a town as Hen, his only affair, by day and by night, was with comfort and pleasure ; nor was there a man of his either who did not take his ease. It followed of course that, as he no longer tolerated the hardships and fatigue of conquest and soldiering, his retainers and his territories dwindled instead of increasing right down to the time of his departure.1
(e.) His children.
Fourteen sons and eleven daughters were born to him.2 The oldest of all his children was Badi'u'z-zaman Mlrza; (Bega Beglm) a daughter of SI. Sanjar of Marv, was his mother.
Shah-i-gharlb Mlrza was another ; he had a stoop {biikuri) ; though ill to the eye, he was of good character ; though weak of body, he was powerful of pen. He even put a diwdn together, using GharbatI (Lowliness) for his pen-name and writing both TurkI and Persian verse. Here is a couplet of his :
Seeing a peri-face as I passed, I became its fool ;
Not knowing what was its name, where was its home. ,
For a time he was his father's Governor in Herl. He died before his father, leaving no child.
In commenting thus IJabur will have had in mind what he best knew, Husain's futile, movements at Qunduz and Hisar.
aajlb aldl; if qalib be taken as TurkI, survived or remained, it would not apply here since many of Husain's children predeceased him ; Ar. galab would suit, meaning begotten, horn.
There are discrepancies between Babur's details here and Khwand-amlr's scattered through the Hablbu's-siytir, concerning Husain's family.
