The Rashīdī History 109.11

109.11

The Khan sent for my father, who, on his arrival, begged that the prisoner's life might be spared; therefore he [Mahmud] was treated with great kindness and then allowed to depart. On this account a very close intimacy and warm friendship sprang up between my father and Mahmud Sultan. He accompanied Mahmud Sultan to Kunduz, and there caused us to rejoin his own party; thus our families and households arrived at Shahr-i-Sabz, a town which Sháhi Beg Khan had given to my father as a fief. From the time of the return from Balkh to that now mentioned, only one spring had elapsed. At the beginning of the winter, Sháhi Beg Khan set out against Khwárizm, while my father fled into Khorásán. In this place, for the proper understanding of what followed, it will be necessary to give some account of Babar Padishah and Sultan Said Khan. Some further details will, God willing, be given in the First Part.