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# The Memoirs of Bābur 905.3.8

The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 905.3.8

- **Language:** English

### [905.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.905.3.8)

(\_Turkī\_) Nor power to go was mine, nor power to stay; I was just what you made me, o thief of my heart. (\_s. Sl. \`Alī Mīrzā's quarrels with the Tarkhāns.\_) In this same year, Sl. \`Alī Mīrzā fell out with Muḥammad Mazīd Tarkhān for the following reasons;—The Tarkhāns had risen to over-much predominance and honour; Bāqī had taken the whole revenue of the Bukhārā Government and gave not a \[Sidenote: Fol. 76b.\] half-penny (\_dāng\_)\[510\] to any-one else; Muḥammad Mazīd, for his part, had control in Samarkand and took all its districts for his sons and dependants; a small sum only excepted, fixed by them, not a farthing (\_fils\_) from the town reached the Mīrzā by any channel. Sl. \`Alī Mīrzā was a grown man; how was he to tolerate such conduct as theirs? He and some of his household formed a design against Muḥ. Mazīd Tarkhān; the latter came to know of it and left the town with all his following and with whatever begs and other persons were in sympathy with him,\[511\] such as Sl. Ḥusain \_Arghūn\_, Pīr Aḥmad, Aūzūn Ḥasan's younger brother, Khwāja Ḥusain, Qarā \_Barlās\_, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad\[512\] and some other begs and braves.

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