912 AH. MAY iilTH 1506 to MAY 13th 1507 AD. 319
act should be recorded precisely as it occurred. From this it follows of necessity that I have set down of good and bad whatever is known, concerning father and elder brother, kinsman and stranger ; of them all I have set down carefully the known virtues and defects. Let the reader accept my excuse ; let the reader pass on from the olace of severity !
(«. Letters of victory?)
Rising from that place and going to the Char-bagh where Mirza Khan had been, we sent letters of victory to all the countries, clans, and retainers. This done, I rode to the citadel.
{o. Arrest of rebel leaders?)
Muhammad Husain Mirza in his terror having run away into Khanlm's bedding-room and got himself fastened up in a bundle of bedding, we appointed Mlrlm Diwan with other begs of the fort, to take control in those dwellings, capture, and bring him in. Mlrlm Diwan said some plain rough words at Khanlm's gate, by some means or other found the Mirza, and brought him before me in the citadel. 1 rose at once to receive the Mirza with my usual deference, not even shewing too harsh a face. If I haJ had that Muh. Husain M. cut in pieces, there was the ground for it that he had had part in base and shameful action, started and spurred on mutiny and treason. Death he deserved with one after another of varied pain and torture, but because there had come to be various connexion betweeif us, his very sons and daughters being by my own mother's sister Khubnigar Khanlm, I kept this just claim in mind, let him go free, and permitted him to set out towards Khurasan. The cowardly ingrate then forgot altogether the good I did him by the gift of his life ; he blamed and slandered me to Shaibaq Khan. Little time passed, however, before the Khan gave him his deserts by death.
Leave thou to Fate the man who does thee wrong, For Fate is an nvenging servitor.1
