the garden now in making at SikrI. The garden-wall and wellbuildings were not getting on to my satisfaction ; the overseers therefore were threatened and punished. We rode on from SikrI between the Other and Evening Prayers, passed through Marhakur, dismounted somewhere and slept.
{Oct. 15th) Riding on {Thursday 30th), we got into Agra during the first watch (6-9 a.m.). In the fort I saw the honoured Khadlja-sultan Beglnfwho had stayed behind for several reasons when Fakhr-i-jahan Beglm started for Kabul. Crossing Jun (Jumna), I went to the Garden-of-eight paradises.1
{m. Arrival of kinswomen?)
{Oct. 17th) On Saturday the 3rd of Safar, between the Other and Evening Prayers, I went to see three of the great-aunt beglms,2 Gauhar-shad Beglm, Badl'u'l-jamal Beglm, and Aq Beglm, with also, of lesser beglms,3 SI. Mas'ud Mlrza's daughter Khan-zada Beglm, and Sultan-bakht Begim's daughter, and my yinka chichds grand-daughter, that is to say, Zainab-sultan Beglm.4 They had come past Tata and dismounted at a small standing-water {qard su) on the edge of the suburbs. I came back direct by boat.
(«. Despatch of an envoy to receive charge of Ranthambhor.)
{Oct. 19th) On Monday the 5th of the month of Safar, HamusI son of Dlwa, an old Hindu servant from Bhlra, was joined with Bikramajlt's former 5 and later envoys in order that pact and agreement for the surrender of Ranthanbur and for the conditions of Bikramajlt's service might be made in their own (hindu) way and custom. Before our man returned, he was to see, and learn, and make sure of matters ; this done, if that
1 Doubtless the garden owes its name to the eight heavens or paradises mentioned in the Quran (Hughes' Dictionary of Islam s.n. Paradise). Babur appears to have reached Agra on the 1st of Safar; the 2nd may well have been spent on the home affairs of a returned traveller.
' The great, or elder trio were daughters of SI. Abfi-sa'id Mirza, Babur's paternalaunts therefore, of his dutiful attendance on whom, Gul-badan writes.
3 "Lesser," i.e. younger in age, lower in rank as not being the daughters of a sovereign Mirza, and held in less honour because of a younger generation.
4 Gul-badan mentions the arrival in Hindustan of a khanim of this name, who was a daughter of SI. Mahmud Khan Chaghatai, Babur's maternal-uncle; to this maternal relationship the word chicha (mother) may refer. Yinka, uncle's or elder brothers wife, has occurred before (ff. 192, 207), chicha not till now.
5 Cf. f. 344* and n. 5 concerning the surmised movements of this set of envoys.
