SI. Mahmud,1 had broken up. The same news was brought in by a spy who had gone out at the Mid-day Prayer from where we were ; and a dutiful letter, agreeing with what the spy had reported, came from Taj Khan Sarang-khdni between the Afternoon and Evening Prayers. SI. Muhammad gave the following particulars : that the rebels on reaching Chunar seemed to have laid siege to it and to have done a little fighting, but had risen in disorderly fashion when they heard of our approach ; that Afghans who had crossed the river for Benares, had turned back in like disorder; that two of their boats had sunk in crossing and a body of their men been drowned.
(tt. Incidents of the eastward march resumed?)
{March 6th) After marching at Sunday's dawn {25th) and doing 6 kurohs (12 m.), Slr-auliya,2 a pargana of Plag * 3 was reached. I went direct by boat.
Alsan-tlmur SI. and Tukhta-bugha SI. had dismounted halfway, and were waiting to see me.4 I, for my part, invited them into the boat. Tukhta-bugha SI. must have wrought magic, for a bitter wind rose and rain began to fall. It became quite windy (?)s on which account I ate ma'jun, although I had done so on the previous day. Having come to the encampingground . . 6
1 f- 363, f. 363*-
5 Not found on maps ; OOjani or Ujahni about suits the measured distance.
3 Prayag, Ilahabad, Allahabad. Between the asterisk in my text (supra) and the one following "ford" before the foliation mark f. 364, the Hai. MS. has a lacuna which, as being preceded and followed by broken sentences, can hardly be due to a scribe's skip, but may result from the loss of a folio. What I have entered above between the asterisks is translated from the Kehr-Uminsky text; it is in the two Persian translations also. Close scrutiny of it suggests that down to the end of the swimming episode it is not in order and that the account of the swim across the Ganges may be a survival of the now missing record of 934 AH. (f. 339). It is singular that the Pers. trss. make no mention of Piag or of Str-auliya ; their omission arouses speculation, as to in which text, the Turki or Persian, it was first tried to fill what remains a gap in the Hai. Codex. A second seeming sign of disorder is the incomplete sentence yurtgha klllb, which is noted below. A third is the crowd of incidents now standing under "Tuesday". A fourth, and an important matter, is that on grounds noted at the end of the swimming passage (p. 655 n. 3) it is doubtful whether that passage is in its right place. It may be that some-one, at an early date after Babur's death, tried to fill the lacuna discovered in his manuscript, with help from loose folios or parts of them. Cf. Index s.n. swimming, and f. 377^, p. 680 n. 2.
* The Chaghatai sultans will have been with 'Askarl east of the Ganges.
s tur hawalik; Mem;, p. 406, violence of the wind ; M<!ms. ii, 398, une temperature Iris agriable.
* yurtgha kilib, an incomplete sentence.
