935 AH. SEP. 15th 1528 TO SEP. 5th 1529 AD. 649
those matters, with their mingling of counsel. The letters were entrusted to Shamsu'd-dln Muhammad on Friday night,1 he was apprized of word-of-mouth messages and given leave to go.
(00. Complaints from Balkh?)
{Feb. nth) On Friday {Jumada II. 2nd) we did Bhtro&s (16m.) and dismounted at Jumandna.2 Today a servant of Kitln-qara SI. arrived whom the Sultan had sent to his retainer and envoy Kamalu'd-din Qiao,3 with things written concerning the behaviour of the begs of the (Balkh) border, their intercourse with himself, and complaints of theft and raid. Leave to go was given to Qidq, and orders \Vere issued to the begs of the border to put an end to raiding and thieving, to behave well and to maintain intercourse with Balkh. These orders were entrusted to Kltin -qara Sl.'s servant and he was dismissed from this ground.
A letter, accepting excuse for the belated arrival of Hasan Chalabl* was sent to the Shah today by one Shah-qull who had come to me from Hasan Chalabi and reported the details of the battle (of Jam).5 Shah-qull was given his leave on this same day, the 2nd of the month.
{pp. Incidents of the eastward march resumed?)
{Feb. 12th) On Saturday (jrd) we did 8 knrohs (16m.) and dismounted in the Kakura and Chachawall 6 parganas of Kalpl.
{Feb. 13th) On Sunday the 4th of the month, we did gkuroks (18m.) and dismounted in Dlrapur7 apargana of Kalpl. Here I shaved my head,8 which I had not done for the past two months, and bathed in the Singar-water (Sengar).
1 Anglice, Thursday after 6 p.m.
2 What would suit measurement on maps and also Babur's route is "Jumoheen" which is marked where the Sarai Baburpur-Atsu-Phaphand road turns south, east of Phaphand (I.S. Map of 1900, Sheet 68).
3 var. Qabaq. Qatak, QanSk, to each of which a meaning might be attached. Babur had written to Humayun about the frontier affair, as one touching the desired peace
(f- 359).
4 This will refer to the late arrival in Agra of the envoy named, who was not with his younger brother at the feast of f. 351^ (f. 357, p. 641, n. 2). As to Tahmasp"s stvle. we f. 354, f. 358.
5 Shah-quli may be the ill-informed narrator of f. 354-
6 Both are marked on the southward road from Jumoheen (Jumandna?) for Auraiya.
7 The old Kalpi pargana having been sub-divided, Dirapur is now in the district of Cawnpore (Kanhpur).
8 That this operation was not hair-cutting but head-shaving is shewn by the verbs T. qlrmaq and its Pers. trs: tarash kardan. To shave the head frequently is common in Central Asia.
