911 AH. JUNE 4th 1505 TO MAY 24th 1500 AD. 273
begs.1 Short life was granted to him after tne Mirza took the throne (973 AH.); he died directly afterwards. He was orthodox and made the Prayers, was rough {turk) and sincere.
Husainof ShaikhTimur was another; he had been favoured and raised to the rank of beg2 by Babur Mirza.
Nuyan Beg was another. He was a Sayyid of Tlrmiz on his father's side ; on his mother's he was related both to SI. Abu-sa id Mirza and to SI. Husain Mirza.3 SI. Abu-sa'id Mirza had favoured him ; he was the beg honoured in SI. Ahmad Mirza's presence and he met with very great favour when he went to SI. Husain Mirza's. He was a bragging, easy-going, wine-bibbing, jolly person. Through being in his father's service,4 Hasan of Ya'qub used to be called also Nuyan's Hasan.
Jahangir Bar/as was another. 5 For a time he shared the Kabul command with Muhammad Baranduq Barlds, later on went to SI. Husain Mirza's presence and received very great favour. His movements and poses (Jiarakal u sakandt) were graceful and charming; he was also a man of pleasant temper. As he knew the rules of hunting and hawking, in those matters the Mirza gave him chief charge. He was a favourite of Badl'u'z-zaman Mirza and, bearing that Mirza's friendliness in mind, used to praise him.
Mirza Ahmad of 'All Farsl Bar/as was another. Though he wrote no verse, he knew what was poetry. He was a gay-hearted, elegant person, one by himself.
'Abdu'l-khallq Beg was another. Firuz Shah, Shahrukh Mirza's
1 Some MSS. omit the word " father" here hut to read it ohviates the difficulty of calling Wall a great beg of SI. Husain Mirza although he died when that mirza took the throne (973 AH.) and although no leading place is allotted to him in Bahur's list of Heri begs. Here as in other parts of Bahur's account of Heri, the texts vary much whether Turki or Persian, e.g. the Elph. MS. appears to call Wali a blockhead (dunkuz ilur), the Hai. MS. writing n :kiiz JSr(?).
* He had been Babur ShCihruklu s yasSwal (Court-attendant), had fought against Husain for Yadgar-i-muhammad and had given a daughter to Husain (H.S. iii, 206, 228, 230-32; D.S. in Not. et Ex. de Sacy p. 265).
3 f. 29*.
4 Sic, Elph. MS. and both Pers. trss. but the Hai. MS. omits "father". To read it, however, suits the circumstance that Hasan of Ya'qvib was not with Husain and in Harat but was connected with Mahnnid Mfr&nshShi and Tirmizff. 24). Nuyan is not a personal name but is a title ; it implies good-birth ; all uses of it 1 have seen are for members of the religious family of Tirmiz.
5 He was the son of Ibrahim Bar/as and a Badakhshi begim (T.R. p. 10S).
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