The Memoirs of Bābur 900.1.2

900.1.2

Few amongst women will have been my grandmother's equals for judgment and counsel; she was very wise and far-sighted and most affairs of mine were carried through under her advice. She and my mother were (living) in the Gate-house of the outer fort;[234] Ḥasan-i-yaq`ūb was in the citadel. When I went to the citadel, in pursuance of our decision, he had ridden out, presumably for hawking, and as soon as he had [Sidenote: Fol. 25.] our news, went off from where he was towards Samarkand. The begs and others in sympathy with him,[235] were arrested; one was Muḥammad Bāqir Beg; Sl. Maḥmud _Dūldāī_, Sl. Muḥammad _Dūldāī's_ father, was another; there were several more; to some leave was given to go for Samarkand. The Andijān Government and control of my Gate were settled on (Sayyid) Qāsim _Qūchīn_. A few days after Ḥasan-i-yaq`ūb reached Kand-i-badām on the Samarkand road, he went to near the Khūqān sub-division (_aūrchīn_) with ill-intent on Akhsī. Hearing of it, we sent several begs and braves to oppose him; they, as they went, detached a scouting party ahead; he, hearing this, moved against the detachment, surrounded it in its night-quarters[236] and poured flights of arrows (_shība_) in on it. In the darkness of the night an arrow (_aūq_), shot by one of his own men, hit him just (_aūq_) in the vent (_qāchār_) and before he could take vent (_qāchār_),[237] he became the captive of his own act. "If you have done ill, keep not an easy mind, For retribution is Nature's law."[238]