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had been sent. We hunted once, those hills being very full of wild sheep and goats {kiyik). All the clans came in and waited on me within a few days; it was to me they came; they had not gone to Jahanglr Mirza though he had sent men often enough to them, once sending even 'Imadu'd-dln Mas'ud. He himself was forced to come at last; he saw me at the foot of the valley when I came down off Saf-hill. Being anxious about Khurasan, we neither paid him atte ntion nor took thought for the clans, but went right on through Gurzwan, Almar, Qaisar, Chichlk-tu, and Fakhru'd-din's-death {aulum) into the Bamvalley, one of the dependencies of Badghls.
The world being full of divisions,1 things were being taken from country and people with the long arm; we ourselves began to take something, by laying an impost on the Turks and clans of those parts, in two or three months taking perhaps 300 tumans of kipki2
(d. Coalition of the Khurasan Mirzas.)
A few days before our arrival (in Barn-valley ?) some of the Khurasan light troops and of Zu'n-nun Beg's men had well beaten Auzbeg raiders in Pand-dih (Panj-dih ?) and Maruchaq, killing a mass of men.3
Badi'u'z - zaman Mirza and Muzaffar-i-husain Mirza with Muhammad Baranduq Bar/as, Zu'n-nun Arghun and his son Shah Beg resolved to move on Shaibaq Khan, then besieging SI. Qul-i-nachaq (?) in Balkh. Accordingly they summoned all SI. Husain Mlrza's sons, and got out of Hen to effect their purpose. At Chihil-dukhtaran Abu'l-muhsin M. joined them from Marv ; Ibn-i-husain M. followed, coming up from Tun and Qaln. Kupuk (Klpik) M. was in Mashhad ; often though they sent to him, he behaved unmanly, spoke senseless words, and did not come. Between him and Muzaffar Mirza, there was jealousy; when Muzaffar M. was made (joint-)ruler, he said, " How should / go to his presence ? " Through this disgusting jealousy he did
1 Amongst the disruptions of the time was that of the Khanate ofQlbchaq (Erskine).
2 The nearest approach to kipki we have found in Dictionaries is kupaki, which comes ties* to the Russian ropcrk. Erskine notes that the :ashekt is-an oval copper coin (Tavernier, p. 121) ; and thai a liiman is a myriad (10,000). Cf. Manucci (Irvine), i. 78 aixj iv, 417 note ; CharHin iv, 27X.
3 Mirbarram 9'z ah.-Jui* iyJ> ad. (U.S. iii, 353).
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