The Memoirs of Bābur 899.5.4

899.5.4

Throughout these great events, `Umar Shaikh Mīrzā's former begs and braves had held resolutely together and made daring offer of their lives. The Mīrzā's mother, Shāh Sulṯān Begīm,[197] and Jaḥāngīr Mīrzā and the _ḥaram_ household and the begs came from Akhsī to Andijān; the customary mourning was fulfilled and food and victuals spread for the poor and destitute.[198] [Sidenote: Fol. 18.] In the leisure from these important matters, attention was given to the administration of the country and the ordering of the army. The Andijān Government and control of my Gate were settled (_mukarrar_) for Ḥasan (son) of Yaq'ūb; Aūsh was decided on (_qarār_) for Qāsim _Qūchīn_; Akhsī and Marghīnān assigned (_ta'īn_) to Aūzun Ḥasan and `Alī-dost T̤aghāī. For the rest of `Umar Shaikh Mīrzā's begs and braves, to each according to his circumstances, were settled and assigned district (_wilāyat_) or land (_yīr_) or office (_mauja_) or charge (_jīrga_) or stipend (_wajh_). When Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā had gone two or three stages on his return-march, his health changed for the worse and high fever appeared. On his reaching the Āq Sū near Aūrā-tīpā, he bade farewell to this transitory world, in the middle of Shawwāl of the date 899 (mid July 1494 AD.) being then 44 (lunar) years old. _m. Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā's birth and descent._