The Book of Akbar 106.6

106.6

Qabal Khan acted on this advice and getting on the horse, proceeded to his own camp (yurt). When the Cathay messengers heard this, they pursued him with all rapidity but did not come up with him till he was in his own camp. Qabal Khan seized these wicked people and put them to death. Meanwhile his eldest child Uqm Barqaq who was matchless for beauty, was keeping company with the gazelles on the borders of the wilderness when a party of Tatars surprised him and took him to Altan Khan. The Khan put this delicate fawn to death in satisfaction for those dog-souled wolves. When Qubila Khan who was the second son, came to the throne, he collected an army and marched against Altan Khan to revenge his brother's death. A great battle ensued and the Cathaians suffered a sore defeat and were plundered of their property. When the onset of the army of death fell upon Qubila Khan, his honoured brother Bartan Bahadur, was established on the throne, agreeably to the counsels of the nobles. He preserved the institutions (yásáq, i. e. yásá) of his father and brother and as in his time, he had no rival who could contend with him in war, the title Khan was marked in people’s mouths by that of Bahadur and they stamped the coin of his courage with this awe-augmenting appellative. At this period, Qaculi Bahadur who was at once a life-sacrificing brother and a Commander-in-Chief Bahadur, departed to the eternal world.