The Memoirs of Bābur 902.2

902.2

At the time when (last year) Sl. `Alī Mīrzā and I had our interview, it had been settled[313] that this summer he should come from Bukhārā and I from Andijān to beleaguer Samarkand. To keep this tryst, I rode out in Ramẓān (May) from Andijān. Hearing when close to Yār Yīlāq, that the (two) Mīrzās were lying front to front, we sent Tūlūn Khwāja _Mūghūl_[314] ahead, with 2 or 300 scouting braves (_qāzāq yīkītlār_). Their approach giving Bāī-sunghar Mīrzā news of our advance, he at once broke up and retired in confusion. That same night our detachment overtook his rear, shot a mass (_qālīn_) of his men and brought in masses of spoil. Two days later we reached Shīrāz. It belonged to Qāsim Beg _Dūldāī_; his _dārogha_ (Sub-governor) could not hold it and surrendered.[315] It was given into Ibrāhīm _Sārū's_ charge. After making there, next day, the Prayer of the Breaking of the Fast (_`Īdu'l-fiṯr_), we moved for Samarkand and dismounted in the reserve (_qūrūgh_) of Āb-i-yār (Water of Might). That day waited on me with 3 or 400 men, Qāsim _Dūldāī_, [Sidenote: Fol. 39b.] Wais _Lāgharī_, Muḥammad Sīghal's grandson, Ḥasan,[316] and Sl. Muḥammad Wais. What they said was this: 'Bāī-sunghar Mīrzā came out and has gone back; we have left him therefore and are here for the _pādshāh's_ service,' but it was known later that they must have left the Mīrzā at his request to defend Shīrāz, and that the Shīrāz affair having become what it was, they had nothing for it but to come to us.