The Institutes of Akbar 227.1

227.1

Mirza Sulaiman was born in 920, and died at Lahor in 997. He is generally called Wali-i-Badakhshan. As grandson of Abu Sa’id Mirza, he is the sixth descendant from Timur. Abu Sa’id killed Sultan Muhammad of Badakhshan, the last of a series of kings who traced their descent to Alexander the Great, and took possession of Badakhshan, which after his death fell to his son, Sultan Mahmud, who had three sons, Baysanghar Mirza, ’Ali Mirza, Khan Mirza. When Mahmud died, Amir Khusrau Khan, one of his nobles, blinded Baysanghar, killed the second prince, and reigned as usurper. He submitted to Babar in 910. When Babar took Qandahar, in 913, from Shah Beg Arghun, he sent Khan Mirza as governor to Badakhshan. Mirza Sulaiman is the son of this Khan Mirza.