934 AH. SEP 27th 1527 to SEP. 15th 1528 AD. 6oi
the army cross. The enemy did not come to fight on Saturday, but stood arrayed a long way oft".
{Sunday March ijth Jumada II 2jrd) On this day the carts were taken over, and at this same dawn the army was ordered to cross. At beat of drum news came from our scouts that the enemy had fled. Chln-tlmur SI. was ordered to lead his army in pursuit and the following leaders also were made pursuers who should move with the Sultan and not go beyond his word : Muhammad ';All Jang-jang, Husamu'd-dln 'All (son) of Khalifa, Muhibb-i-'alr (son) of Khalifa, KukI (son) of Baba Qashqa, Dost-i-muhammad (son) of Baba Qashqa, BaqI of Tashkint, and Red Wall. I crossed at the Sunnat Prayer. The camels were ordered to be taken over at a passage seen lower down. That Sunday we dismounted on the bank of standing-water within a kuroh of Bangarmawu.1 Those appointed to pursue the Afghans were not doing it well; they had dismounted in Bangarmawu and were scurrying off" at the Mid-day Prayer of this same Sunday.
{March i6th Jumada II. 24th) At dawn we dismounted on the bank of a lake belonging to Bangarmawu.
{q. Arrival of a Chaghatdi cousin.)
On this same day {March 16(h) Tukhta-bugha SI. a son of my mother's brother {dddd) the Younger Khan {Ahmad Chaghatdi) came and waited on me.
{March 21st) On Saturday the 29th of the latter Jumada I visited Laknau, crossed the Gul-water2 and dismounted. This day I bathed in the Gul-water. Whether it was from water getting into my ear, or whether it was from the effect of the climate, is not known, but my right ear was obstructed and for a few days there was much pain.3
r. The campaign continued?)
One or two marches from Aud (Oudh) some-one came from Chln-tlmur SI. to say, " The enemy is seated on the far side of
so-spelled in the Hai. MS. ; by de Courteille Banguermadu ; the two forms may represent the same one of the Arabic script.
or Gfri, from the context clearly the Gumti. Jarrett gives Godi as a name of the Gumti; Gfil and Godi may be the same word in the Arabic script. 3 Some MSS. read that there was not much pain.
