The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 102.3

102.3

He was associated with Khost, and it is on record that Humayun visited his maternal grandparents (nanaha) in Khost. The Begchiks do not seem to have been connected with Khost. Babar speaks frequently of Khwaja Muhammad 'Ali as being employed in the government of Khost (925 H.), as coming from Khost for orders, etc., and the mir-zadas of Khost also are recorded as visiting the court. One of Maham's children was born in Khost. Babar frequently mentions an 'Abdu-l-maluk Khosti, and he may be a connection of Maham. He, however, appears as Khosti, Kheasti, Qasti, qfnchif Qilichia, and without a more complete good Turki text no opinion can be formed as to his identity. Gul-badan says that Akao (Maham) was related to the owners of the New Year's Garden in Kabul, and this was made by Ulugh Beg Kabuli Miran-shahi. Abu'l-fazl says Maham was of a noble Khurasan family, related to Sultan Husain Mirza (Bayqra), and, like Hamida-banu Begam, was of the line of Shaikh Ahmad Jami (az dudman-i-a'yan wa ashraf-i-Khurasan bud, wa ba Sultan Husain Mirza nisbat-i-khwesh dasht). Perhaps nisbat-i-khwesh implies blood-relationship on the father's side. Gul-badan speaks of Maham's Mughal servants, but a Chaghatai, a Begchik, a Quchin is also a Mughal, and Babar often sinks the divisional tribe-name in the general one, Mughal (e.g., Mems. 9 and 21).