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{nisbahsildr) by way of......* Here-upon the begs were summoned for a consultation and it was settled that Muhammadi-zaman Mirza and SI. Junaid Barlas who in place of Junpur had been given Chunar with several parganas, Mahmud Khan Niiha-.l, Qazi Jla, and Taj Khan Sardng-khani should block the enemy's road at Chunar.2
{June 2nd) Marching early in the morning of Thursday {25th), we left the Saru-river, did 1 ikurohs (22m.), crossed the Parsaru (Sarju) and dismounted on its bank.
Here the begs were summoned, discussion was had, and the leaders named below were appointed to go detached from the army, in rapid pursuit of Blban and Bayazld towards Dalmut (Dalmau): Aisan-tlmur SI., Muhammad SI. M., Tukhta-bugha SI., Oasim-i-husain SI., Bi-khub (Nl-khub) SI., Muzaffar-i-husain SI., Qasim Khwaja, Ja'far Khwaja, Zahid Khwaja, JanI Beg, 'Askari's retainer Kichlk Khwaja, and, of Hind amirs, 'Alam Khan of Kalpi, Malik-dad Kararani, and Rao (Rawul) Sarwdni. {000. The march continued.)
When I went at night to make ablution in the Parsaru, people were catching a mass of fish that had gathered round a lamp on the surface of the water. I like others took fish in my hands.3
1 Hai. MS. J:nira khund lawabl si bila (perhaps tawabil,si but not so written). The obscurity of these words is indicated by their variation in the manuscripts. Most scribes have them as Chunar and Junpur, guided presumably by the despatch of a force to Chunar on receipt of the news, but another force was sent to Dalmau at the same time. The rebels were defeated s. w. of Dalmau and thence went to Mahuba ; it is not certain that they had crossed the Ganges at Dalmau ; there are difficulties in supposing the fort they captured andabandoned was Lakhnau (Oude); they might have gone south to near Kalpi and Adampur, which are at no great distance from where they were defeated by Baqi shaghawal, if Lakhnur (now Shahabad in Rampur) were the fort. (Cf. Appendix T.) To take up the interpretation of the words quoted above, at another point, that of the kinsfolk or fellow-Afghans the rebels planned to join : these kinsfolk may have been, of Bayazld, the Farmulis in Sarwar, and of Biban, the Jalwanis of the same place. The two may have trusted to relationship for harbourage during the Rains, disloyal though they were to their kinsmen's accepted suzerain. Therefore if they were once across Ganges and Jumna, as they were in Mahuba, they may have thought of working eastwards south of the Ganges and of getting north into Sarwar through territory belonging to the Chunar and Junpur governments. This however is not expressed by the words quoted above; perhaps Baburs record was hastily and incompletely written. Another reading may be Chunar and Jaund (in Akbars sarkar of Rohtas).
- yulitil tiishqailar. It may be observed concerning the despatch of Muhammadi-zaman M. and of Junaid Barlas that they went to their new appointments Junpur and Chunar respectively ; that their doing so was an orderly part of the winding-up of Babur's Eastern operations ; that they remained as part of the Eastern garrison, on duty apart from that of blocking the road of Biban and Bayazid.
3 This mode of fishing is still practised in India (Erskine).
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