passed through them and entered the town. During tV>e siege he risked his honoured life splendidly, but Ahmad-i-qasim, without a word to this honoured man,1 flung out of the town and got away. Dost Beg for his own part got the better of the Khan and sultans and made his way well out of Tashkint.
Later on when Sherim Taghai, Mazld and their adherents were in rebellion,2 he came swiftly up from Ghaznl with two or three hundred men, met three or four hundred effective braves sent out by those same Mughuls to meet him, unhorsed a mass of them near Sherukan (?), cut off and brought in a number of heads.
Again, his men were first over the ramparts at the fort of Bajaur (925 ah.). At Parhala, again, he advanced, beat Hati,T put him to flight, and won Parhala.
After Dost Beg's death, I bestowed his district on his younger brother Nasir's Mlrim.3
{v. Various incidents?)
{April gtli) On Friday the 8th of the second Rabi', the walledtown was left for the Char-bagh.
{April 13th) On Tuesday the 12th there arrived in Kabul the honoured Sultanlm Beglm, SI. Husain Mirza's eldest daughter, the mother of Muhammad Sultan Mlrza. During^those throneless times,4 she had settled down in Khwarizm where Yill-pars Sultan's younger brother Alsan-quli SI. took her daughter. The Bagh-i-khilwat was assigned her for her seat. When she had settled down and I went to see her in that garden, out of respect and courtesy to her, she being as my honoured elder sister, I bent the knee. She also bent the knee. We both advancing, saw one another mid-way. We always observed the same ceremony afterwards.
{April 18th) On Sunday the 17th, that traitor to his salt, Baba Shaikhs was released from his long imprisonment, forgiven his offences and given an honorary dress.
■' Honoured," in this sentence, represents Babur's honorific plural.
2 in 921 ah. (Translator's Note s.a.; T.R. p. 356).
3 i.e. Mir Muhammad son of Nasir.
4 i.e. after the dethronement of the Bai-qara family by Shaibanl.
5 He had been one of rebels of 921 ah. (Translator's Note s.a. ; T.R. p. 356).
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