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The Memoirs of Bābur 905.3.9

The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 905.3.9

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905.3.9

At the time The Khān had joined to Khān Mīrzā a number of Mughūl begs with Muḥ. Ḥusain _Dūghlāt_ and Aḥmad Beg, and had appointed them to act against Samarkand.[513] Khān Mīrzā's guardians were Ḥāfiẓ Beg _Dūldāī_ and his son, T̤āhir Beg; because of relationship to them, (Muḥ. Sīghal's) grandson, Ḥasan and Hindū Beg fled with several braves from Sl. `Alī [Sidenote: Fol. 77.] Mīrzā's presence to Khān Mīrzā's. Muḥammad Mazīd Tarkhān invited Khān Mīrzā and the Mughūl army, moved to near Shavdār, there saw the Mīrzā and met the begs of the Mughūls. No small useful friendlinesses however, came out of the meeting between his begs and the Mughūls; the latter indeed seem to have thought of making him a prisoner. Of this he and his begs coming to know, separated themselves from the Mughūl army. As without him the Mughūls could make no stand, they retired. Here-upon, Sl. `Alī Mīrzā hurried light out of Samarkand with a few men and caught them up where they had dismounted in Yār-yīlāq. They could not even fight but were routed and put to flight. This deed, done in his last days, was Sl. `Alī Mīrzā's one good little affair.