chief of the food had been set out, Khwaja 'Abdu'sh-shahid and Khwaja Kalan were made to put on surtouts (jabbah) of fine muslin,1 spotted with gold-embroidery, and suitable dresses of honour, and those headed by Mulla Farrukh and Hafiz 2 had jackets put on them. On Kuchum Khan's envoy 3 and on Hasan Chalabi's younger brother4 were bestowed silken head-wear (jbashllq) and gold-embroidered surtouts of fine muslin, with suitable dresses of honour. Gold-embroidered jackets and silk coats were presented to the enVoys }f Abu-sa'ld SI. (Aiizbeg), of Mihr-ban Khanim and her son Pulad SI., and of Shah Hasan (Arghiin). The two Khwajas and the two chief envoys, that is to say Kuchum Khan's retainer and Hasan Chalabi's younger brother, were presented with a silver stone's weight of gold and a gold stone's weight of silver.
(Author's note on the Turk! stone-weight.) The gold stone (tash) is $oomisqals, that is to say, one Kabul sir ; the silver stone is 250 misqals, that is to say, half a Kabul slr.s
To Khwaja Mir Sultan and his sons, to Hafiz of Tashklnt,
to Mulla Farrukh at the head of the Khwajas' servants, and
also to other envoys, silver and gold were given with a quiver.6
Yadgar-i-nasir 7 was presented with a dagger and belt. On Mir
1 Scribes and translators have been puzzled here. My guess at the Turk! clause is aurang alralik ilsh jabbah. In reading muslin, I follow Erskine who worked in India and could take local opinion ; moreover gifts made in Agra probably would be Indian.
2 For one Hafiz of Samarkand see f. 2y]b.
, 3 Kuchum was Khaqan of the Auzbegs and had his seat in Samarkand. One of his sons, Abu-sa'ld, mentioned below, had sent envoys. With Abu-sa'id is named Mihr-ban who was one of Kuchiim's wives ; Pulad was their son. Mihr-ban was, I think, a half-sister of Babur, a daughter of 'Umar Shaikh and Umid of Andijan (f. 9), and a full-sister of Nasir. No doubt she had been captured on one of the occasions when Babur lost to the Auzbegs. In 925AH.-1519AD. (f. 237/5) when he sent his earlier Diwan to Pulad SI. (Translator's Note, p. 438) he wrote a verse on its back which looks to be addressed to his half-sister through her son.
4 Tahmasp's envoy ; the title Chalabi shews high birth.
5 This statement seems to imply that the weight made of silver and the weight made of gold were of the same size and that the differing specific gravity of the two metals, that of silver being cir. loand that of gold cir. 20 gave their equivalents the proportion Babur states. Persian Dictionaries give sang ('ash), a weight, but without further information. We have not found mention of the tash as a recognized Turk! weight; perhaps the word tash stands for an ingot of unworked metal of standard size. (Cf. inter alios libros, A.-i-A. Blochmann p. 36, Codrington's Musalman Numismatics p. u7> concerning the misqal, dinar, etc.)
6 tarkash bila. These words are clear in the Hai. MS. but uncertain in some others. E. and de C. have no equivalent of them. Perhaps the coins were given by the quiverful ; that a quiver of arrows was given is not expressed.
7 Babur's half-nephew ; he seems from his name Keepsake-of-nasir to have been posthumous.
