Muzaffar-i-husain Mlrza was another; he was his father's favourite son, but though this favourite, had neither accomplishments nor character. It was SI. Husain Mlrza's over-fondness for this son that led his other sons into rebellion. The mother of Shah-i-gharib Mlrza and of Muzaffar-i-husain Mlrza was Khadlja Beglm, a former mistress of SI. Abu-sa'ld Mlrza by whom she had had a daughter also, known as Aq (Fair) Beglm.
j. other sons were Abu'l-husain Mlrza and Kupuk (var. Y v\ Mlrza whose name was Muhammad Muhsin Mlrza; their mot^er was Latlf-sultan Aghacha.
Abu-turab Mlrza was another. From his early years he had an excellent reputation. When the news of his father's ina eased illness1 reached him and other news of other kinds also, he fled with his younger brother Muhammad-i-husain Mlrza into 'Iraq,2 and there abandoned soldiering to lead the darwish-life ; nothing further has been heard about him.3 His son Sohrab was in my service when I took Hisar after having beaten the sultans led by Hamza SI. and Mahdl SI. (917 AH. 1511 AD.); he was blind of one eye and of wretchedly bad aspect; his disposition matched even his ill-looks. Owing to some immoderate act {bi Vtidat), he could not stay with me, so went off. For some of his immoderate doings, Nijm SanI put him to death near Astarabad.4
Muhammad-i-husain Mlrza was another. He must have been shut up {bund) with Shah Isma'Il at some place in 'Iraq and have become his disciple;s he became a rank heretic later on and became this although his father and brethren, older and younger, were all orthodox. He died in Astarabad, still on the same wrong road, still with the same absurd opinions. A good deal is heard about his courage and heroism, but no deed of his
1 bi huzuri, which may mean aversion due to Khadlja Begim's malevolence.
2 Seme of the several goings into 'Iraq chronicled by Babur point to refuge taken with Timurids, descendants of Khalll and 'Umar, sons of Miran-shah (Lane-Poole's Muhammadan Dynasties, Table of the Timurids).
3 He died before his father (H.S. iii, 327).
4 He will have been killed previous to Ramzan 3rd 918 ah. (Nov. 12th, 1512 AD.), the date of the battle of Ghaj-dawan when Nijm Sani died.
5 The bund here may not imply that both were in prison, but that they were bound in close company, allowing Isma'Il, a fervent Shi'a, to convert the Mlrza.
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