The Memoirs of Bābur 935.5.1

935.5.1

(_Author's note on the Turkī stone-weight._) The gold stone (_tāsh_) is 500 _mis̤qāls_, that is to say, one Kābul _sīr_; the silver stone is 250 _mis̤qāls_, that is to say, half a Kābul _sīr_.[2393] To Khwāja Mīr Sulṯān and his sons, to Ḥāfiẕ of Tāshkīnt, to Mullā Farrūkh at the head of the Khwājas' servants, and also to other envoys, silver and gold were given with a quiver.[2394] Yādgār-i-nāṣir[2395] was presented with a dagger and belt. On Mīr Muḥammad the raftsman who was deserving of reward for the excellent bridge he had made over the river Gang (Ganges),[2396] a dagger was bestowed, so too on the matchlockmen Champion [_pahlawān_] Ḥājī Muḥammad and Champion Buhlūl and on Walī the cheeta-keeper (_pārschī_); one was given to Ustād `Alī's son also. Gold and silver were presented to Sayyid Daud _Garmsīrī_. Jackets having buttons,[2397] and silk dresses of honour were presented to the servants of my daughter Ma`ṣūma[2398] and my son Hind-āl. Again:—presents of jackets and silk dresses of honour, of gold and silver, of plenishing and various goods were given to those from Andijān, and to those who had come from Sūkh and Hushīār, the places whither we had gone landless and homeless.[2399] Gifts of the same kind were given to the servants of Qurbān and Shaikhī and the peasants of Kāhmard.[2400] [Sidenote: Fol. 353.]