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(200m.), attacked the Baluchis and given them a good beating.1 Orders were sent through 'Abdu'1-lah {kitdbddr) for the Sultan that he and SI. Muhammad Dulddi, Muhammadl, and some of the begs and braves of that country-side should assemble in Agra and there remain ready to move to wherever an enemy appeared.
(eee. Settlement with the Nuhdni Afghans?)
{May 16th) On Monday the 8th of the month, Darya Khan's grandson Jalal Khan to whom Shaikh Jamall had gone, came in with his chief amirs and waited on me.2 Yahya Nuhdni also came, who had already sent his younger brother in sign of submission and had received a royal letter accepting, his service. Not to make vain the hope with which some 7 or 8,000 Nuhdni Afghans had come in to me, I bestowed $olaks from Bihar on Mahmud Khan Nuhdni, after reserving one krur for Government uses {khalsa), and gave the remainder of the Bihar revenues in trust for the above-mentioned Jalal Khan who for his part agreed to pay one, krur of tribute. Mulla Ghulam yasdwa/was sent to collect this tribute.3 Muhammad-i-zaman Mlrza received the Junapur-country.4
{///■ Peace maae with Nasrat Shah.)
{May ipth) On the eve of Thursday {nth) that retainer of Khalifa's, Ghulam-i-'all by name, who in company with a retainer of the Shah-zada of Munglr named Abu'1-fath,5 had gone earlier than Isma'Il Mita, to convey those three articles {fas/ soz), now returned, again in company with Abu'1-fath, bringing letters for Khalifa written by the Shah-zada and by Husain Khan Laskar{?) Wazir, who, in these letters, gave assent to those three conditions, took upon themselves to act for Nasrat Shah and interjected a word for peace. As the object of this campaign was to put
■ The order for these operations is given on f. 355^-
* f. 369. The former Nuhani chiefs are now restored to Bihar as tributaries of Babur.
3 Erskine estimated their«rat about ^25,000, and the %olaks at about £l2,S°°-
4 The Mirza thus supersedes Junaid Bar/as in Junpur. The form Junapur used above and elsewhere by Babur and his Persian translators, supports the Gazetteer of India xlv, 74 as to the origin of the name Junpur.
5 a son of Nasrat Shah. No record of this earlier legation is with the Baiur-nimz manuscripts ; probably it has been lost. The only article found specified is the onasking for the removal of the Kharid army from a ferry-head Babur wished to use Nasrat Shah's assent to this is an anti-climax to Babur's victory on the Ghogra.
