The Memoirs of Bābur 901.11

901.11

These news reached us in Andijān in the month of Shawwāl (mid-June to mid-July) and as we (_act._ 14) coveted Samarkand, we got our men to horse. Moved by a like desire, Sl. Mas'ūd Mīrzā, his mind and Khusrau Shāh's mind set at ease by Sl. [Sidenote: Fol. 38.] Ḥusain Mīrzā's retirement, came over by way of Shahr-i-sabz.[306] To reinforce him, Khusrau Shāh laid hands (_qāptī_) on his younger brother, Walī. We (three mīrzās) beleaguered the town from three sides during three or four months; then Khwāja Yahya came to me from Sl. `Alī Mīrzā to mediate an agreement with a common aim. The matter was left at an interview arranged (_kūrūshmak_); I moved my force from Soghd to some 8m. below the town; Sl. `Alī Mīrzā from his side, brought his own; from one bank, he, from the other, I crossed to the middle of[307] the Kohik water, each with four or five men; we just saw one another (_kūrūshūb_), asked each the other's welfare and went, he his way, I mine. I there saw, in Khwāja Yahya's service, Mullā _Binā'ī_ and Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ;[308] the latter I saw this once, the former was long in my service later on. After the interview (_kūrūshkān_) with Sl. `Alī Mīrzā, as winter was near and as there was no great scarcity amongst the Samarkandīs, we retired, he to Bukhārā, I to Andijān.