Sayyid Badr (Full-moon) was another, a very strong man, graceful in his movements and singularly well-mannered. He danced wonderfully well, doing one dance quite unique and seeming to be his own invention.1 His whole service was with the Mlrza whose comrade he was in wine and social pleasure.
Isllm Bar/as was another, a plain (turk) person who understood hawking well and did some things to perfection. . Drawing a bow of 30 to 40 bdtmdns strength,2 he would make h'<s shaft pass right through the target {takhtd). In the gallop from the head of the qabaq-maidan? he would loosen his bow, string it again, and then hit the gourd (qabaq). He would tie his string-grip (zih-gir) to the one end of a string from 1 to l\ yards long, fasten the other end to a tree, let .is shaft fly, and shoot through the stringgrip while it revolved.4 Many such remarkable feats he did. He served the Mlrza continuously and was at every social gathering.
SI. Junaid Barlds was another ;5 in his latter days he went to SI. Ahmad Mlrza's presence.6 He is the father of the SI. Junaid Barlds on whom at the present time 7 the joint-government of Jaunpur depends.
Shaikh Abfl-sa'Id Khan Dar-miydn (In-between) was another. It is not known whether he got the name of Dar-miyan because he took a horse to the Mlrza in the middle of a fight, or whether because he put himself in between the Mlrza and some-one designing on his life.8
1 Babur speaks as an eye-witness (f. l87<5). For a single combat of Sayyid Badr, H.S. iii, 233.
* f. 157 and note to bdlman.
3 A level field in which a gourd (qabaq) is set on a pole for an archer's mark to be hit in passing at the gallop (f. i8£ and note).
* Or possibly during the gallop the archer turned in the saddle and shot backwards.
5 Junaid was the father of Nizamu'd-din 'All, Babur's Khalifa (Vice-gerent). That Khalifa was of a religious house on his mother's side may be inferred from his being styled both Sayyid and Khwaja neither of which titles could have come from his Turk! father. His mother may have l>een a sayyida of one of the religious families of Marghinan (f. 18 and note), since Khalifa's son Muhibb-i-'ali writes his father's name "Nizamu'd-din 'All Marghllanl" (Marghindni) in the Preface of his Book on Sport (Rieii's Pers. Cat. p. 485).
6 This northward migration would take the family into touch with Babur's in Samarkand and Farghana.
» He was left in charge of Jaunpur in Rabi' I, 933 ah. (Jan. 1527 AD.) but exchanged for Chunar in Ramzan 935 ah. (June 1529 ad. ); so that for the writing of this part of the Babur-nama we have the major and minor limits of Jan. 1527 and June 1529. ' 8 H.S. iii, 227.
