The Memoirs of Bābur 911.4.3

911.4.3

Farīdūn-i-ḥusain Mīrzā was another. He drew a very strong [Sidenote: Fol. 167.] bow and shot a first-rate shaft; people say his cross-bow (_kamān-i-guroha_) may have been 40 _bātmāns_.[1019] He himself was very brave but he had no luck in war; he was beaten wherever he fought. He and his younger brother Ibn-i-ḥusain Mīrzā were defeated at Rabāṯ-i-dūzd (var. Dudūr) by Tīmūr Sl. and `Ubaid Sl. leading Shaibāq Khān's advance (913 AH.?), but he had done good things there.[1020] In Dāmghān he and Muḥammad-i-zamān Mīrzā[1021] fell into the hands of Shaibāq Khān who, killing neither, let both go free. Farīdūn-i-ḥusain Mīrzā went later on to Qalāt[1022] where Shāh Muḥammad _Diwāna_ had made himself fast; there when the Aūzbegs took the place, he was captured and killed. The three sons last-named were by Mīnglī Bībī Āghācha, Sl. Ḥusain Mīrzā's Aūzbeg mistress. Ḥaidar Mīrzā was another; his mother Payānda-sulṯān Begīm was a daughter of Sl. Abū-sa`īd Mīrzā. Ḥaidar Mīrzā was Governor of Balkh and Mashhad for some time during his father's life. For him his father, when besieging Ḥiṣār (901 AH.) took (Bega Begīm) a daughter of Sl. Maḥmūd Mīrzā and Khān-zāda Begīm; this done, he rose from before Ḥiṣār. One daughter only[1023] was born of that marriage; she was named Shād (Joy) Begīm and given to `Ādil Sl.[1024] when she came to Kābul later on. Ḥaidar Mīrzā departed from the world in his father's [Sidenote: Fol. 167b.] life-time.