The Memoirs of Bābur 906.2.6

906.2.6

Fifthly;—I had come once already; my opponent was on his guard about me. The second time we came, God brought it right! Samarkand was won. In saying these things there is no desire to be-little the reputation of any man; the facts were as here stated. In [Sidenote: Fol. 86.] writing these things, there is no desire to magnify myself; the truth is set down. The poets composed chronograms on the victory; this one remains in my memory;—Wisdom answered, 'Know that its date is the _Victory_ (_Fatḥ_) _of Bābur Bahādur_.' Samarkand being taken, Shavdār and Soghd and the _tūmāns_ and nearer forts began, one after another, to return to us. From some their Aūzbeg commandants fled in fear and escaped; from others the inhabitants drove them and came in to us; in some they made them prisoner, and held the forts for us. Just then the wives and families of Shaibāq Khān and his Aūzbegs arrived from Turkistān;[549] he was lying near Khwāja Dīdār and `Alī-ābād but when he saw the forts and people returning to me, marched off towards Bukhārā. By God's grace, all the forts of Soghd and Miyān-kāl returned to me within three or four months. Over and above this, Bāqī Tarkhān seized this opportunity to occupy Qarshī; Khuzār and Qarshī (? Kesh) both went out of Aūzbeg hands; Qarā-kūl [Sidenote: Fol. 86b.] also was taken from them by people of Abū'l-muḥsin Mīrzā (_Bāī-qarā_), coming up from Merv. My affairs were in a very good way. (_e. Birth of Bābur's first child._)