926 AH. DEC. 23rd 1519 TO DEC. 12th 1520 AD. 425
{Jan. 23rd) Next day (Safar 2nd) Hamza Khan, Malik of 'All-shang was made over to the avengers-of-blood * for his evil deeds in shedding innocent blood, and retaliation was made.
{Jan. 24.U1) On Tuesday, after reading a chapter of the Qoran (wird), we turned for Kabul by the Yan-bulagh road. At the Other Prayer, we passed the [Baran]-water from Aulugh-nur (Great-rock); reached Qara-tu by the Evening Prayer, there gave our horses corn and had a hasty meal prepared, rode on again as soon as they had finished their barley.2
* qanliqlar. This right of private revenge which forms part of the law of most rude nations, exists in a mitigated form under the Muhammadan law. The criminal is condemned by the judge, but is delivered up to the relations of the person murdered, to be ransomed or put to death as they think fit (Erskine).
a Here the text breaks off and a lacuna separates the diary of 11 months length which ends the Kabul section of the Babur-nama writings, from the annals of 932 AH. which begin the Hindustan section. There seems no reason why the diary should have been discontinued.
