The Rashīdī History 233.4

233.4

He was born in Moghulistan in the year 892 [1487]. He received his name from his distinguished grandfather, Yunus Khan. Up to the age of fourteen he remained in Moghulistan, under the care and guidance of his father. But when Sultan Ahmad Khan went to Tashkand to meet his brother Sultan Mahmud Khan, he took the [young] Khan with him. On the occasion when the battle took place between Shahi Beg Khan and the two brothers, at Akhsi, in which the Khans were defeated, the [young] Khan being wounded, fell into the hands of Shaikh Bayazid, who was Governor of Akhsi. As was shown above, there was but an insincere alliance between Shaikh Bayazid and Shahi Beg Khan. [Shaikh Bayazid] detained the Khan in prison one year, but the following year Shahi Beg Khan came and put Shaikh Bayazid, and his brother Tambal, to death, and conquered the province of Farghana. He next released the Khan from his confinement in Akhsi, and took him with him on the expedition which resulted in the capture of Hisar and Kunduz. On his return from that expedition, [Shahi Beg] set out to attack the Khwarizm.