The Memoirs of Bābur 913.4.3
The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 913.4.3
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913.4.3
A few days later a servant of Nāṣir Mīrzā brought the news that Shaibāq Khān had come and laid siege to Qandahār. That Muqīm had fled to Zamīn-dāwar has been said already; from there he went on and saw Shaibāq Khān. From Shāh Beg also one person after another had gone to Shaibāq Khān. At the instigation and petition of these two, the Khān came [Sidenote: Fol. 213.] swiftly down on Qandahār by the mountain road,[1305] thinking to find me there. This was the very thing that experienced person Qāsim Beg had in his mind when he worried us into marching off from near Qandahār. (Persian) What a mirror shews to the young man, A baked brick shews to the old one! Shaibāq Khān arriving, besieged Nāṣir Mīrzā in Qandahār. (_q. Alarm in Kābul._)