911 AH. JUNE 4th 1505 to MAY 24th 1506 AD. 293
influential wife; and to him the Mlrza's people had gatnered. For these reasons Badl'u'z-zaman Mirza had anxieties and thought of not coming,1 but Muzaffar-i-husain Mirza and Muhammad Baranduq Beg themselves rode out, dispelled his fears and brought him in.
SI. Husain Mirza was carried into Herl and there buried in his own College with royal rites and ceremonies.
(b. A dual succession.)
At this crisis Zu'n-nun Beg was also present. He, Muh. Baranduq Beg, the late Mlrza's begs and those of the two (young) Mlrzas having assembled, decided to make the two Mlrzas joint-rulers in Herl. Zu'n-nun Beg was to have control in Badl'u'z-zaman Mlrza's Gate, Muh. Baranduq Beg, in Muzaffari-husain Mlrza's. Shaikh 'All Taghal was to be darogha in Herl for the first, Yusuf-i-'ali for the second. Theirs was a strange plan! Partnership in rule is a thing unheard of; against it stand Shaikh Sa'dl's words in the Gulistan : " Ten darwishes sleep under a blanket {gilini); two kings find no room in a clime " (aqlim).2
1 i.e. from his own camp to Baba Ilahi.
2 f. 121 has a fuller quotation. On the dual succession, see T. R. p. 196.
