no copy is now known of the section of his General History which deals with Babur's.
An early source is Yahya Kazwini's Lubbu! t-tawdrikh, written in 948 AH. (1541 AD.), but brief only in the Babur period. It issued from a Shl'a source, being commanded by Shah Isma'Il Sqfawi's son Bahram.
Another work issuing also from a Safawi centre is Mir Sikandar's Tdrikh-i-'dlam-ardt, a history of Shah 'Abbas I, with an introduction treating of his predecessors which was completed in 1025 AH. (1616 AD.). Its interest lies in its outlook on Babur's dealings with Shah Isma'Il.
A later source, brief only, is Firishta's Tdrikh-i-firishta, finished under.Jahanglr in the first quarter of the 17th century.
Mr. Erskine makes frequent reference to Kh(w)afi Khan's Tdrikh, a secondary authority however, written under Aurangzlb, mainly based on Firishta's work, and merely summarizing Babur's period. References to detached incidents of the period are found in Shaikh 'Abdu'l-qadir's Tdrikh-i-baddyuni and Mir Ma'sum's Tdrlkh-i-sind.
EVENTS OF THE UNCHRONICLED YEARS 914 AH. MAY 2nd 1508 to APRIL 21st 1509 AD.
The mutiny, of which an account begins in the text, was crushed by the victory of 500 loyalists over 3,000 rebels, one factor of success being Babur's defeat in single combat of five champions of his adversaries.1 The disturbance was not of long duration ; Kabul was tranquil in Sha'ban (November) when SI. Sa'Id Khan Chaghatdi, then 21, arrived there seeking his cousin's protection, after defeat by his brother Mansur at Almatu, escape from death, commanded by ShaibanI, in Farghana, a winter journey through Qara-tigln to Mlrza Khan in Qila'-i'zafar, refusal of an offer to put him in that feeble Mlrza's place, and so on to Kabul, where he came a destitute fugitive and
* The T. R. gives the names of two only of the champions but Firishta, writing much later gives all five ; we surmise that he found his five in the book of which copies are not now known, the Tarikh-i Muh. 'Arif Qandahari. Firishta's five are All shab-kur (night-blind), 'All Sistani, Nazar Bahadur Aiizbeg, Ya'qub tez-jang (swift in fight), and Auzbeg Bahadur. Haidar's two names vary in the MSS. of the T. R but represent the first two of Firishta's list.
