936 AH. SEP. 5th 1529 to AUGUST 25th 1530 AD.
(a. Rahim-dad1 s affairs.)
{Sep. 7th) On Wednesday the 3rd of Muharram, Shaikh Muhammad G/iaus * came in from Guallar with Khusrau's (son) Shihabu'd-dln to plead for Rahim-dad. As Shaikh Muhammad Ghaus was a pious and excellent person, Rahlm-dad's faults were forgiven for his sake. Shaikh Guran and Nur Beg were sent off for Guallar, so that the place having been made over to their charge . . .2
' Cf. f. 381* n. 2. For his earlier help to Rahim-dad see f. 3°4*- For Biographies of him see Blochmann's A.-i-A. trs. p. 446, and BadayQni's Muntakhabu-'t-tawarikh (Ranking's and Lowe's trss.).
Beyond this broken passage, one presumably at the foot of a page in Babur's own manuscript, nothing of his diary is now known to survive. What is missing seems likely to have been written and lost. It is known from a remark of Gul-badan's (H.N. p. 103) that he "used to write his book " after Mahim's arrival in Agra, the place coming into her anecdote being Sikrl.