The Memoirs of Bābur 908.3.2

908.3.2

The Khāns, closely following on Taṃbal, dismounted near Andijān,—the Elder at the side of the Reserve (_qūrūq_) in the [Sidenote: Fol. 108.] garden, known as Birds'-mill (_Qūsh-tīgīrmān_), belonging to my grandmother, Aīsān-daulat Begīm,—the Younger, near Bābā Tawakkul's Alms-house. Two days later I went from Aūsh and saw the Elder Khān in Birds'-mill. At that interview, he simply gave over to the Younger Khān the places which had come in to me. He made some such excuse as that for our advantage, he had brought the Younger Khān, how far! because such a foe as Shaibāq Khān had taken Samarkand and was waxing greater; that the Younger Khān had there no lands whatever, his own being far away; and that the country under Andijān, on the south of the Khujand-water, must be given him to encamp in. He promised me the country under Akhsī, on the north of the Khujand-water. He said that after taking a firm grip of that country (Farghāna), they would move, take Samarkand, give it to me and then the whole of the Farghāna country was to be the Younger Khan's. These words seem to have been meant to deceive me, since there is no knowing what they would have done when they had attained their object. It had to be however! willy-nilly, I agreed. When, leaving him, I was on my way to the Younger Khān's presence, Qaṃbar-`alī, known as the Skinner, joined me in a friendly way and said, 'Do you see? They have taken the whole of the country just become yours.