The Memoirs of Bābur 899.5.7

899.5.7

He fought four battles. The first was with Ni'mat _Arghūn_, Shaikh Jamāl _Arghūn's_ younger brother, at Āqār-tūzī, near Zamīn. This he won. The second was with `Umar Shaikh Mīrzā at Khwaṣ; this also he won. The third affair was when he encountered Sl. Maḥmūd Khān on the Chīr, near Tāshkīnt [Sidenote: Fol. 19b.](895 AH.-1469 AD.). There was no real fighting, but some Mughūl plunderers coming up, by ones and twos, in his rear and laying hands on his baggage, his great army, spite of its numbers, broke up without a blow struck, without an effort made, without a coming face to face, and its main body was drowned in the Chīr.[206] His fourth affair was with Ḥaidar _Kūkūldāsh_ (_Mughūl_), near Yār-yīlāq; here he won. _q. His country._ Samarkand and Bukhārā his father gave him; Tāshkīnt and Sairām he took and held for a time but gave them to his younger brother, `Umar Shaikh Mīrzā, after `Abdu'l-qadūs (_Dūghlāt_) slew Shaikh Jamāl (_Arghūn_); Khujand and Aūrātīpā were also for a time in his possession.