The Memoirs of Bābur 899.6.6

899.6.6

`Abdu'l-`alī Tarkhān was another, a near relation of Darwesh Muḥammad Tarkhān, possessor also of his younger sister,[219] that is to say, Bāqī Tarkhān's mother. Though both by the Mughūl rule (_tūrā_) and by his rank, Darwesh Muḥammad Tarkhān was the superior of `Abdu'l-`alī Tarkhān, this Pharoah regarded him not at all. For some years he had the Government of Bukhārā. His retainers were reckoned at [Sidenote: Fol. 22.] 3,000 and he kept them well and handsomely. His gifts (_bakhshīsh_), his visits of enquiry (_purshīsh_), his public audience (_dīwān_), his work-shops (_dast-gāh_), his open-table (_shīlān_) and his assemblies (_majlis_) were all like a king's. He was a strict disciplinarian, a tyrannical, vicious, self-infatuated person. Shaibānī Khān, though not his retainer, was with him for a time; most of the lesser (Shaibān) sulṯāns did themselves take service with him. This same `Abdu'l-`alī Tarkhān was the cause of Shaibānī Khān's rise to such a height and of the downfall of such ancient dynasties.[220]