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The Memoirs of Bābur 912.1.4

The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 912.1.4

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912.1.4

We lay a few days in the meadow of Ṣāf-hill, waiting for news of Jahāngīr Mīrzā and the clans (_aīmāq_) to whom persons had been sent. We hunted once, those hills being very full of wild sheep and goats (_kiyīk_). All the clans came in and waited on me within a few days; it was to me they came; they had not gone to Jahāngīr Mīrzā though he had sent men often enough to them, once sending even `Imādu'd-dīn Mas`ūd. He himself was forced to come at last; he saw me at the foot of the valley when I came down off Ṣāf-hill. Being anxious about Khurāsān, we neither paid him attention nor took thought for the clans, but went right on through Gurzwān, Almār, Qaiṣār, Chīchīk-tū, and Fakhru'd-dīn's-death (_aūlūm_) into the Bām-valley, [Sidenote: Fol. 185.] one of the dependencies of Bādghīs. The world being full of divisions,[1176] things were being taken from country and people with the long arm; we ourselves began to take something, by laying an impost on the Turks and clans of those parts, in two or three months taking perhaps 300 _tūmāns_ of _kipkī_.[1177] (_d. Coalition of the Khurāsān Mīrzās._) A few days before our arrival (in Bām-valley?) some of the Khurāsān light troops and of Ẕū'n-nūn Beg's men had well beaten Aūzbeg raiders in Pand-dih (Panj-dih?) and Marūchāq, killing a mass of men.[1178]