and Pasha Baharlu. Turkman, would find an incomplete record
one* in which the husbands of the first and second daughters
mentioned and nothing is said about the third who was Babur'
wife and the grandmother of Sallma. Babur himself appears to
have left the record as it is, meaning to fill it in later; presumably
he waited for the names of the elder two sisters to complete his
details of the three. In the Haidarabad Codex, which there is
good ground for supposing a copy of his original manuscript
about three lines are left blank (f. 27) as if awaiting information-
in most manuscripts, however, this indication of intention is
destroyed by running the defective passage on to join the next
sentence. Some chance remark of a less well-known writer
may clear up the obscurity and show that Salha was Dil-dar.
Mahlm's case seems one having a different cause for silence
about her parentage. When she was married in Herat, shortly
after the death of SI. Husain Mlrza, Babur had neither wife nor
child. What Abu'1-fazl tells about her is vague ; her father's name
is not told ; she is said to have belonged to a noble Khurasan
family, to have been related ijtisbat-i-khwesli) to SI. Husain
Mlrza and to have traced her descent to Shaikh Ahmad of Jam.
If her birth had been high, even though not royal, it is strange
that it is not stated by Babur when he records the birth of her
son Humayun, incidentally by Gul-badan, or more precisely by
Abu'1-fazl. Her brothers belonged to Khost, and to judge from a
considerable number of small records, seem to' have been quiet,
unwarlike Khwajas. Her marriage took place in a year of which
a full record survives ; it is one in the composed narrative, not
in the diary. In the following year, this also being one included
in the composed narrative, Babur writes of his meeting with
Ma'suma Miran-shdhi in Herat, of their mutual attraction, and
of their marriage. If the marriage with Humayun's mother had
been an equal alliance, it would agree with Babur's custom to
mention its occurrence, and to give particulars about Mahlm s
descent.1
1 The story of the later uprisings against Mahlm's son Humayun by his brothers, by Muhammad-i-zaman Bai-qara and others of the same royal" blood, and this W spite of Humayun's being his father's nominated successor, stirs surmise as to whetne the rebels were not tempted by more than his defects of character to disregard ni claim to supremacy; perhaps pride of higher maternal descent, this particularly amongst the Bai-qara group, may have deepened a disregard created by antagonism of temperament.
