The Rashīdī History 140.4

140.4

And now a difference arose between the Emperor and those Moghul Amirs who, when the Khan went [to Andijan], had stayed behind and entered the Emperor's service. To make a long story short, one night, Ayub Begjik, Mir Muhammad, Yadgar Mirza and Nazar Mirza, in company with the rest of the Moghuls, fell upon the Emperor so unexpectedly that he was with difficulty able to escape, naked, into the castle of Hisar; while [the conspirators] having plundered all they could find outside [the fort], marched away towards the mountains of Karatigin. The Emperor was powerless to oppose them: having left several of his trusted Amirs to defend the castle of Hisar, he himself proceeded to Kunduz. The whole province of Hisar, except the fort, fell into the hands of the Moghuls. The Moghuls have a proverb which runs; when a place is left unoccupied, the pigs will mount to the top of the hillock. . . . They withdrew the hand of tyranny and oppression from the sleeve of violence and enmity, and seized upon the households, families, possessions and cattle of all the people. One of the most distinguished of those Moghuls, who was in my service [at one time], used to relate: "They once [by way of paying my allowance] gave me an assignment [barat] for obtaining provisions, which was addressed to one of the inferior officials at Yaklish. I alighted at his house and showed him my assignment. He pondered for a while;