The Memoirs of Bābur 903.4.3

903.4.3

In anxiety for Andijān, we had given Samarkand out of our hands; then heard we had lost Andijān. It was like the saying, 'In ignorance, made to leave this place, shut out from that' (_Ghafil az īn jā rānda, az ān jā mānda_). It was very hard and vexing to me; for why? never since I had ruled, had I been cut [Sidenote: Fol. 54b.] off like this from my retainers and my country; never since I had known myself, had I known such annoyance and such hardship. (_f. Bābur's action from Khujand as his base._) On our arrival in Khujand, certain hypocrites, not enduring to see Khalīfa in my Gate, had so wrought on Muḥammad Ḥusain Mīrzā _Dūghlāt_ and others that he was dismissed towards Tāshkīnt. To Tāshkīnt also Qāsim Beg _Qūchīn_ had been sent earlier, in order to ask The Khān's help for a move on Andijān. The Khān consented to give it and came himself by way of the Ahangarān Dale,[418] to the foot of the Kīndīrlīk Pass.[419] There I went also, from Khujand, and saw my Khān dādā.[420] We then crossed the pass and halted on the Akhsī side. The enemy for their part, gathered their men and went to Akhsī.