The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 9.1.2

9.1.2

From his Majesty Sahib-qiran down to my royal father there was none of the bygone princes who laboured as he did. He became king in his twelfth year, and the khutba was read in his name on June 10th, 1494, in Andijan, the capital of Farghana (sa). For eleven full years his wars and struggles against the Chaghatai and Timurid and Uzbeg princes in Mawara'u-n-nahr (Transoxiana) were such that the tongue of the pen is too feeble and weak to recount them. The toils and perils which in the ruling of kingdoms befell our prince, have been measured out to few, and of few have been recorded the manliness, courage and endurance which he showed in battle-fields and dangers. Twice he took Samarqand by force of the sword. The first time my royal father was twelve years old, the second nineteen, the third time he was nearly twenty-two. For six months he was besieged (in Samarqand), and neither Sultan Husain Mirza Baiqra, his paternal uncle, who AMIR TIMUR (QILAN)