The Memoirs of Bābur 900.1.6

900.1.6

Sl. Abū-sa`īd Mīrzā gave him Astarābād.[246] After the `Irāq disaster (_i.e._, his father's death,) he went into Khurāsān. At that time, Qaṃbar-`alī Beg, the governor of Ḥiṣār, by Sl. Abū-sa`īd Mīrzā's orders, had mobilized the Hindūstān[247] army and was following him into `Irāq; he joined Sl. Maḥmūd Mīrzā in Khurāsān but the Khurāsānīs, hearing of Sl. Ḥusain Mīrzā's approach, rose suddenly and drove them out of the country. On this Sl. Maḥmūd Mīrzā went to his elder brother, Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā in Samarkand. A few months later Sayyid Badr and Khusrau Shāh and some braves under Aḥmad _Mushtāq_[248] took him and fled to Qaṃbar-`alī in Ḥiṣār. From that time forth, Sl. Maḥmūd Mīrzā possessed the countries lying south of Quhqa (Quhlugha) and the Kohtin Range as far as the Hindū-kush Mountains, such as Tīrmīẕ, Chaghānīān, Ḥiṣār, Khutlān, Qūndūz and Badakhshān. He also held Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā's lands, after his brother's death. _f. His children._ He had five sons and eleven daughters.