932 AH. OCT. 18TH 1525 TO OCT. 8th 1526 AD. 527
me when Mlrza Mughfd returned, was promoted, and given valid (?) parganas1 worth 25 laks.
(jr. Action against the rebels of the East.)
SI. Ibrahim had appointed several amirs under Mustafa Farmidi and Flriiz Khan Sdrang-khdni, to act against the rebel amirs of the East {Purab). Mustafa had fought them and thoroughly drubbed them, giving them more than one good beating. He dying before Ibrahim's defeat, his younger brother Shaikh Bayazld Ibrahim being occupied with a momentous matter 2 had led and watched over his elder brother's men. He now came to serve me, together with Flruz Khan, Mahmud Khan Nuhdni and QazI Jla. I shewed them greater kindness and favour than was their claim; giving to Flruz Khan 1 kriir, 46 laks and 5000 tankas from Junpur, to Shaikh Bayazld 1 krur, 48 laks and 50,000 tankas from Aud (Oude), to Mahmud Khan 90 laks and 35,000 tankas from Ghazlpur, and to QazI Jla 20 laks?
(Ji. Gifts -made to various officers?)
It was a kw days after the 'Id of Shawwal 4 that a large party was held in the pillared-porch of the domed building standing in the middle of SI. Ibrahim's private apartments. At this party there were bestowed on Humayun a char-gab,5 a sword-belt,6 a tlpuclidg horse with saddle mounted in gold ; on Chln-tlmur Sultan, Mahdl Khwaja and Muhammad SI. Mlrza char-gabs, sword-belts and dagger-belts ; and to the begs and braves, to each according to his rank, were given sword-belts, dagger-belts, and dresses of honour, in ah to the number specified below :
1 'ain parganalar.
- Babur's advance, presumably.
3 The full amounts here given are not in all MSS., some scribes contenting themselves with the largest item of each gift (Memoirs p. 337). ■ 4 The 'Id of Shawwal, it will be remembered, is celebrated at the conclusion of the Ramzan fast, on seeing the first new moon of Shawwal. In A.H. 932 it must have fallen about July nth 1526 (Erskine).
5 A square shawl, or napkin, of cloth of gold, bestowed as a mark of rank and distinction (Memoirs p. 338 n.); une tunique enrichie debroderies (Mimoires, ii, 240 n.).
6 kamar-shamskir. This Steingass explains as sword-belt, Erskine by "sword with a belt". The summary following shews that many weapons were given and not belts alone. There is a good deal of variation in the MSS. The Hai. MS. has not a complete list. The most all the lists show is that gifts were many.
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