Mumin Ataka for news ; it became a raid for loot; Mumin Ataka was not able to bring even the least useful information. The rebels heard about him however, made no stay but fled and got away. After Mumin Ataka, Qusm-nal (?) was sent for news, with Baba Chuhra ' and Bujka ; they brought it ofthebreakingup and flight of the rebels. Humayun advancing, took Jajmau and passed on. Near Dilmau 2 Fath Khan Sarwani came and saw him, and was sent to me with Mahdi Khwaja and Muhammad SI. Mlrza.
{p. News of the Auzbegs.)
This year 'Ubaidu'1-lah Khan (Aiizbeg) led an army out of Bukhara against Marv. In the citadel of Marv were perhaps 10 to 15 peasants whom he overcame and killed ; then having taken the revenues of Marv in 40 or 50 days,3 he went on to Sarakhs. In Sarakhs were some 30 to 40 Red-heads (Qizil-bdsh) who did not surrender, but shut the Gate; the peasantry however scattered them and opened the Gate to the Auzbeg who entering, killed the Red-heads. Sarakhs taken, he went against Tus and Mashhad. The inhabitants of Mashhad being helpless, let him in. Tus he besieged for 8 months, took possession of on terms, did not keep those terms, but killed every man of name and made their women captive.
{p. Affairs of Gujrdt.)
In this year Bahadur Khan, he who now rules in Gujrat in the place of his father SI. Muzaffar Gujrdtl having gone to SI. Ibrahim after quarrel with his father, had been received without honour. He had sent dutiful letters to me while I was near Panl-pat ; I had replied by royal letters of favour and kindness summoning him to me. He had thought of coming, but changing his mind, drew off from Ibrahim's army towards Gujrat. Meantime his father SI. Muzaffar had died (Friday Jumada II. 2nd AH. March 16th 1526 AD.) ; his elder brother Sikandar Shah who was SI. Muzaffar's eldest son, had become
1 i.e. of the Corps of Braves.
3 Dilmau is on the left bank of the Ganges, s.e. from Bareilly (Erskine). 3 Marv-ning bundi-ni baghlab, which Erskine renders by "Having settled the revenue of Merv", and de Courteille by, " Apres avoir occupl Merv." Were the year's revenues compressed into a 40 to 50 days collection ?
