mentioned by Ahmad-i-yadgar {vide fast).'1 The T.-i-A. was written within the term of Abu'l-fazl's work on the Akbar-ndma, being begun later, and ended about 9 years earlier, in 1002 ah. 1593 AD. It appears to have been Abu'-l-fazl's authority for his account of the campaign carried on in Kashmir by Babur's chiefs {AylA-i-akbarivol. ii, part i, Jarrett's trs. p. 389).
An Important contribution, seeming to be authentic, is found interpolated in Ahmad-i-yadgar's Tdrikh-i-saldtin-i-afdghana, one which outlines a journey made by Babur to Lahor in 936 AH. and gives circumstantial details of a punitive expedition sent by him from Sihrind at the complaint of the Qazi of Samana against a certain Mundahir Rajput. The whole contribution dovetails into matters found elsewhere. Its precision of detail bespeaks a closely-contemporary written source.2 As its fullest passage concerns the Samana Qazl's affair, its basis of record may have been found in Samana. Some considerations about the date of Ahmad-i-yadgar's own book and what Niamatu'1-lah says of Haibat Khan of Samana, his own generous helper in the Tarikh i-Khan-i-jahdn Ludl, point towards Haibat Khan as providing the details of the Qazl's wrongs and avenging. The indication is strengthened by the circumstance that what precedes and what follows the account of the punitive expedition is outlined only.3 Ahmad-i-yadgar interpolates an account of Humayiin also, which is a frank plagiarism from the Tabaqdt-i-akbari. He tells too a story purporting to explain why Babur "selected " Humayiin to succeed him, one parallel with Nizamu'd-dln Ahmad's about what led Khalifa to abandon his plan of setting the Mlrza aside. Its sole value lies in its testimony to a belief, held by its first narrator whoever he was, that choice was exercised in the matter by Babur. Reasons for thinking Nizamu'd-dln's story, as it stands, highly improbable, will be found later in this note.
I am indebted to my husband for acquaintance with Nizamu'-d-din Ahmad's record about Babur and Kashmir.
J In view of the vicissitudes to which under Humayiin the royal library was subjected, it would be difficult to assert that this source was not the missing continuation of Babur's diary.
3 E. and D.'s H. of I. art. Tarikh-i Khan-i-jahan Liirti v, 67. For Ahmad-i ■yadgar's book and its special features vide I.e. v, 2, 24, with notes ; Rieu's Persian Catalogue iii, 922a; JASB. 1916, H. Beveridge's art. Note on the Tarith-i-salHtitt '■afaghana.
