22 FARGHANA
Bukhara (917 AH. -15 11 AD.), she stayed behind,1 and when her paternal uncle, Sayyid Muhammad Dughlat came as SI. Sa'Id Khan's envoy to me in Samarkand, she joined him and with him went to Kashghar where (her cousin), SI. Sa'id Khan took her. Khub-nigar's son was Haidar Mirza. 2 He was in my service for three or four years after the Auzbegs slew his father, then (9i8 AH.-1512 AD.) asked leave to go to Kashghar to the presence of SI. Sa'id Khan.
" Everything goes back to its source. Pure gold, or silver or tin." 3
People say he now lives lawfully [ta'ib) and has found the right way {tariqa) 4 He has a hand deft in every thing, penmanship and painting, and in making arrows and arrow, Foi. 11/'. barbs and string-grips; moreover he is a born poet and in a petition written to me, even his style is not bad. 5
Shah Begim was another of Yunas Khan's ladies. Though he had more, she and Aisan-daulat Begim were the mothers of his children. She was one of the (six) daughters of Shah Sultan Muhammad, Shah of Badakhshan.6 His line, they say, runs back to Iskandar Filkus. 7 SI. Abu-sa'id Mirza took another daughter and by her had Aba-bikr Mirza. 8 By this
1 i.e. she did not take to flight with her husband's defeated force, but, relying on the victor, her cousin Babur, remained in the town. Cf. T.R. p. 268. Her case receives light from Shahr-banu's (f. 169).
2 Muhammad Haidar Mirza Kurkan Dughlat Chaghatai Mughul, the author of the Tarikh-i-rashidi ; b. 905 AH. d. 958 AH. (b. 1499 d. 1551 AD.). Of his clan, the " Oghlat " (Dughlat) Muh. Salih says that it was called " Oghlat " by Mughuls but Qungur-at (Brown Horse) by Auzbegs. 3 Baz garadad ba asl-i-khud hama chiz, Zar-i-safi u naqra u airzin. These lines are in Arabic in the introduction to the Anwar-i-suhaili. (H.B.) The first is quoted by Haidar (T.R. p. 354) and in Field's Dict, of Oriental Quotations (p. 160). I understand them to refer here to Haidar's return to his ancestral home and nearest kin as being a natural act.
4 td'ib and tariqa suggest that Haidar had become an orthodox Musalman in or about 933 AH. (1527 AD.).
5 Abu'1-fazl adds music to Haidar's accomplishments and Haidar's own Prologue mentions yet others.
6 Cf. T.R. s.n. and Gul-badan's H.N. s.n. Haram Begim.
7 i.e. Alexander of Macedon. For modern mention of Central Asian claims to Greek descent see i.a. Kostenko, Von Schwarz, Holdich and A. Durand. Cf. Burnes' Kabul p. 203 for an illustration of a silver patera (now in the V. and A. Museum), once owned by ancestors of this Shah Sultan Muhammad.
8 Cf. f . 6b note
