935 AH. SEP. 15th 1258 to SEP. 5th 1529 AD. 641
brought him before me. He knelt thrice in our fashion, advanced, handed Nasrat Shah's letter, set before me the offering he had brought, and retired.
{Jan. 24th) On Monday (14th) the honoured Khwaja 'Abdu'l -haqq having arrived, I crossed the water by boat, went to his tents and waited on him.1
(Jan. 25th) On Tuesday (15th) Hasan Chalabl arrived and waited on me.2
(mm. Incidents oj the eastward march?)
On account of our aims (chapduq) for the army,3 some days were spent in the Char-bagh.
(Jan. 27th) On Thursday the 17th of the month, that ground was left after the 3rd gari (7.10a.m.), I going by boat. It was dismounted 7 kurohs (14 m.) from Agra, at the village of Anwar.4
(Jan. joth) On Sunday (Jumdda 1.20th), the Auzbeg envoys were given their leave. To Kuchum Khan's envoy Amln Mlrza were presented a dagger with belt, cloth of gold,5 and 70,000 tankas.6 Abu-sa'Id's servant Mulla Taghal and the servants of Mihr-ban Khanim and her son Pulad SI. were made to put on dresses of honour with gold-embroidered jackets, and were presented also with money in accordance with their station.
(Jan. 31st}) Next morning7 (Monday 21st?) leave was given to Khwaja 'Abdu'1-haqq for stay in Agra and to Khwaja Yahya's
1 His brother Hazrat Makhdfimi Nura (Khwaja Khawand Mahmud) is much celebrated by Haidar Mlrza, and Babur describes his own visit in the words he uses of the visit of an inferior to himself. Cf. Tarlkh-i-rashidi trs. pp. 395, 478; Akbarnama trs., i, 356, 360.
' No record survives of the arrival of this envoy or of why he was later in coming than his brother who was at Babur's entertainment. Cf. f. i(>lb.
3 Presumably this refers to the appliances mentioned on f. 350*.
*£332, n. 3.
5 zarbaft m.l.k. Amongst gold stuffs imported into Hindustan, Abu'1-fazl mentions milak which may be Babur's cloth. It came from Turkistan (A.-i-A. Blochmann, p. 92 and n.).
6 A tang is a small silver coin of the value of about a penny (Erskine).
7 tanglasi, lit. at its dawning. It is not always clear whether tanglasi means, Anglic^, next dawn or day, which here would be Monday, or whether it stands for the dawn (daylight) of the Muhammadan day which had begun at 6p.m. on the previous evening, here Sunday. When Babur records, e.g. a late audience, ISngldst, following, will stand for the daylight of the day of audience. The point is of some importance as bearing on discrepancies of days, as these are stated in MSS., with European calendars ; it is conspicuously so in Babur's diary sections.
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