The Book of Akbar 125.4

125.4

In succession to his father, he ruled in Andijan, the capital of Farghana and also Tashkand, Shāhrukhīya and Siram were in his possession. He several times led an army against Samarqand and he several times brought to his help Yunus Khan who possessed the dominions of Caghatai Khan and was Khan of the Mughals and was nearly related to him. Whenever he brought him, he assigned some province to him and then as occasion served, Yunus Khan would go back to Mughalistan. On the last occasion ‘Umar Mirza gave him Tashkand and up to 908 (1502-3) this and Shahrukhiya were in the possession of the Caghatai rulers. At this last date the Khanship of the Mughal tribes belonged to Mahmud Khan, eldest son of Yunus Khan. This Mahmud Khan and Sultan Ahmad Mirza brother of ‘Umar Shaikh ruler of Samarqand, having concluded an alliance, marched their forces against the Mirza (‘Umar Shaikh). Sultan Ahmad Mirza proceeded from the south of the Khajand river and Sultan Mahmud Khan from the north of it. Just at this crisis an extraordinary thing happened to the Mirza. The brief account of it is as follows.