Muntakhab al-tawarikh 65.3.2

65.3.2

In the course of conversation the Shah asked what had led to his defeat, Humayun incautiously replied ‘The opposition of my brothers.’ Bahram Mirza, the brother of the Shah, who was present, was grieved at this speech, and from that day forth sowed the seeds of enmity against Humayun in his heart, and set himself to overthrow his enterprise, [nay more to overthrow Humayun himself as well], and impressed upon Shah Tahmasp, saying, “This is the son of that self-same father who taking so many thousand Qizilbash soldiers to reinforce his army, caused them to be trampled under foot by the Ozbaks, so that not one of them escaped alive.” This was a reference to that affair in which Babar Padshah took Najm-i-Awwal from Shah Isma'il with seventeen thousand Qizilbash cavalry, and led them as an auxiliary force against the Ozbaks, and at the time of the siege of the fortress of Nakhshab, otherwise known as Kash, (?) wrote the following verse upon an arrow and discharged it into the fort: I made Najm Shah to turn the Ozbaks from their path, If I did wrong, (at any rate) I cleared (my own) path. The following day when the two armies met he withdrew to one side, and the Qizilbash troops met with the treatment which was in store for them; that circumstance is notorious.