The Memoirs of Bābur 935.3.2

935.3.2

(_Nov. 4th_) On Wednesday the 21st of the month (_Ṣafar_) a Hindūstānī foot-man (_pīāda_) brought dutiful letters (_`arẓ-dāshtlār_) from Kāmrān and Khwāja Dost-i-khāwand. The Khwāja had reached Kābul on the 10th of Ẕū'l-ḥijja[2314] and will have been anxious to go on[2315] to Humāyūn's presence, but there comes to him a man from Kāmrān, saying, "Let the honoured Khwāja come (to see me); let him deliver whatever royal orders there may be; let him go on to Humāyūn when matters have been talked over."[2316] Kāmrān will have gone into Kābul on the 17th of Ẕū'l-ḥijja (_Sep. 2nd_), will have talked with the Khwāja and, on the 28th of the same month, will have let him go on for Fort Victory (_Qila'-i-ẕafar_). There was this excellent news in the dutiful letters received:—that Shāh-zāda T̤ahmāsp, resolute to put down the Aūzbeg,[2317] had overcome and killed Rīnīsh (var. Zīnīsh) _Aūzbeg_ in Dāmghān and made a general massacre of his people; that 'Ubaid Khān, getting sure news about the _Qīzīl-bāsh_ (Red-head) had risen from round Herī, gone to Merv, called up to him there all the sulṯāns of Samarkand and those parts, and that all the sulṯāns of Mā warā'u'n-nahr had gone to help him.[2318] [Sidenote: Fol. 346.] This same foot-man brought the further news that Humāyūn was said to have had a son by the daughter of Yādgār T̤aghāī, and that Kāmrān was said to be marrying in Kābul, taking the daughter of his mother's brother Sl. `Alī Mīrzā (_Begchīk_).[2319]