on an island an<^ there stayed the several days we were on that
ground.
(rrr. Concerning Blban and Bdyazid.)
Not getting reliable news about the enemy, we sent BaqI sfiaghawal with a few braves of the interior 1 to get information about him.
{June 17th) Next day (Friday nth) at the Other Prayer, one of BaqI Beg's retainers came in. BaqI had beaten scouts of Blban and Bayazld, killed one of their good men, Mubarak Khan Jalwdni, and some others, sent in several heads, and one man alive.
(June 18th) At dawn (Saturday 12th) Paymaster Shah Husain came in, told the story of the beating of the scouts, and gave various news.
Tonight, that is to say, the night of Sunday the 13th of the month,2 the river Jun came down in flood, so that by the dawn, the whole of the island on which I was settled, was under water. I moved to another an arrow's-flight down-stream, there had a tent set up and settled down.
(June 20tk) On Monday (14th) Jalal Tashkindi came from the begs and sultans of the advance. Shaikh Bayazld and Blban, on hearing of their expedition, had fled to the pargana of Mahuba.3
As the Rains had set in and as after 5 or 6 months of active service, horses and cattle in the army were worn out, the sultans and begs of the expedition were ordered to remain where they were till they received fresh supplies from Agra and those parts. At the Other Prayer of the same day, leave was given to BaqI and the army of Aud (Ajodhya). Also an allowance of ~$oldks* from Amroha was assigned to Musa (son) of Ma'ruf Farmuli, who had waited on me at the time the returning army was crossing the Saru-water,5 a special head-to-foot and saddled horse were bestowed on him/ and he was given his leave.
Hai. MS. aula, presumably for aurta; Kehr's p. 1133, Aud-daghl, which, as BaqI led the Aud army, is ben trovato ; both Persian translations, miangani, central, inner, '■e. aurta, perhaps household troops of the Centre. * Anglice\ Saturday 12th after 6 p.m.
3 In Akbar's sarkar of Kalanjar, now in the Hamirpur district.
4 £75°o (Erskine). Amroha is in the Moradabad district.
_f At the Chaupara-Chaturmuk ferry (f. 376). Corrigendum : In the Index of the Babur-nama Facsimile, Musa Farmuli and Musa SI. are erroneously entered as if one man.
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