The Memoirs of Bābur 911.1.1

911.1.1

911 AH.—JUNE 4TH 1505 TO MAY 24TH 1506 AD.[940] (_a. Death of Qūtlūq-nigār Khānīm._) In the month of Muḥarram my mother had fever. Blood was let without effect and a Khurāsānī doctor, known as Sayyid T̤abīb, in accordance with the Khurāsān practice, gave her water-melon, but her time to die must have come, for on the [Sidenote: Fol. 157.] Saturday after six days of illness, she went to God's mercy. On Sunday I and Qāsim Kūkūldāsh conveyed her to the New-year's Garden on the mountain-skirt[941] where Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā had built a house, and there, with the permission of his heirs,[942] we committed her to the earth. While we were mourning for her, people let me know about (the death of) my younger Khān _dādā_ Alacha Khān, and my grandmother Aīsān-daulat Begīm.[943] Close upon Khānīm's Fortieth[944] arrived from Khurāsān Shāh Begīm the mother of the Khāns, together with my maternal-aunt Mihr-nigār Khānīm, formerly of Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā's _ḥaram_, and Muḥammad Ḥusain _Kūrkān Dūghlāt_.[945] Lament broke out afresh; the bitterness of these partings was extreme. When the mourning-rites had been observed, food and victuals set out for the poor and destitute, the Qorān recited, and prayers offered for the departed souls, we steadied ourselves and all took heart again. (_b. A futile start for Qandahār._)