935 AH. SEP. 15th 1528 to SEP. 6th 1529 AD. 689
to allay Rahlm-dad's fears, came back in a few days, and laid requests from Rahlm-dad before us. Orders in accordance with those requests had been written and were on the point of despatch when one of Rahlm-dad's servants arriving, represented that he had come to effect the escape of the son and that Rahlm-dad himself had no thought of coming in. I was for riding out at once to Gualiar, but Khalifa set it forth to me, " Let me write one more letter commingled with good counsel; he may even yet come peacefully." On this mission Khusrau's (son ?) Shihabu'ddln was despatched.
{August 12th) On Thursday the 6th of the month mentioned {Ziil-hijjd) Mahdl Khwaja came in from Etawa.1
{August 16th) On the Festival-day2 {Monday 10th) Hindu Beg was presented with a special head-to-foot, an inlaid dagger with belt; also apargana worth ylaks^ was bestowed on Hasan-i-'all, well-known among the Turkmans 4 for a Chaghatai.5
1 He may have come about the misconduct of his nephew Rahlm-dad. ' The 'idu'l-kabir, the Great Festival of 10th Zu'1-hijja.
3 About .£175° (Erskine).
4 Perhaps he was from the tract in Persia still called Chaghatai Mountains. One Ibrahim Chaghatai is mentioned by Babur (f. 175*) with Turkman begs who joined Husain Bai*qard. This Hasan-i-'ali Chaghatai may have come in like manner, with Murad the Turkman envoy from 'Iraq (f. 369 and n. I).
5 Several incidents recorded by Gul-badan (writing half a century later) as following Mahlm's arrival in Agra, will belong to the'record of 935 ah. because they preceded Humayun's arrival from Badakhshan. Their omission from Babur's diary is explicable by its minor lacuna. Such are : (1) a visit to Dhulpur and Slkri the interest of which lies in its showing that Bibl Mubarika had accompanied Mahim Begim to Agra from Kabul, and that there was in Slkri a quiet retreat, a chaukandi, where Babur
' used to write his book "; -(2) the arrival of the main caravan of ladies from Kabul, which led Babur to go four miles out, to Naugram, in order to give honouring reception to his sister Khan-zada Begim ; (3) an excursion to the Gold-scattering garden (Bagh-i-zar-afshan), where seated among his own people, Babur said he was " bowed down by ruling and reigning ", longed to retire to that garden with a single attendant, and wished to make over his sovereignty to Humayun; (4) the death of Dil-dar's son Alwar (var. Anwar) whose birth may be assigned to the gap preceding 932 ah. because not chronicled later by Babur, as is Farfiq's. As a distraction from the sorrow for this loss, a journey was "pleasantly made by water" to Dhulpur.
