[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 96.6 # The Rashīdī History 96.6 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 96.6 - **Language:** English ### [96.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.96.6) Babar Padishah, meanwhile, appealed to Shah Ismail for assistance. The latter sent Mir Najm, one of his Amirs, with 60,000 men, to the Padishah, who having joined his own troops to these, marched on Samarkand. The Khan, in the meantime, having harassed the Uzbeg in the neighbourhood of Andijan, also marched towards Samarkand, and encountered Suyunj Khwaja Khan near Tashkand. All the other Khans and Sultans had assembled in Samarkand and Bokhara to oppose Babar Padishah. But in the battle near Tashkand, between the Khan and Suyunj Khwaja Khan, the former had 5000 men and the latter 7000; after a hard fight, the Khan was defeated and fled to Andijan. Your servant, the author of the present history, having taken leave of Babar Padishah, at the time when he went to join Mir Najm, entered the service of the Khan, who was in Andijan, and had just sustained a defeat at the hands of Suyunj Khwaja Khan. In the spring, the Khan went to the court of Kasim Khan, who was ruler of the Dasht-i-Kipchak. At that time his army numbered 300,000 men. Kasim Khan received him with so much respect and honour that the Khan remembered it for years after. On his return from that visit, he distinguished me from among my equals with the connection \[musa'hara?\] of Kurkani. All this is related in Part II. - [Previous: 96.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.96.5) - [Next: 96.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.96.7) - [Up: 96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.96) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.96.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.96.6) · Pramāṇa