The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 4.4.3

4.4.3

It was the expected that Kamran should not keep his word, but perhaps the unexpected was behind his conduct on the occasion of the Balkh campaign Sulaiman and Ibrahim were with Humayun, and their presence might well have kept him away, for Gul-badan tells of an incident in which the three men had part and which did not make them good company for one another It is a bit of scandal to which Haram adds salt and vitality It is repeated here because some little points do not quite stand clear in the begam’s wording While Kamran was in Kulab — i.e., his last holding, — someone, who from her name of Taikhan Begam must have been a woman of good birth, advised him to make love to Haram Begam Good, she said, would come of it So Kamran sent a go-between with a letter and a kerchief to Haram, who, furiously angry, at once summoned husband and son from wherever they were away from home, and told them of the advances made to her She railed at Sulaiman, saying that it was clear he was thought a coward, and further observed that Kamran feared neither her nor her son Much was packed in the pronoun here ; there was ground to fear the energetic and resolute woman who had the arm of Badakhshan at her disposal. She was a forceful person and had the belwan torn to pieces. Kamran was audacious, and his advances look the more so that Haram's sister was his wife; but they may have been made rather to the charms of her arm than to those of its commandante.