The Commentary of Father Monserrate 3.2.3

3.2.3

The grandsons of Temur were compelled, by financial difficulties, by frequent rebellions of their miscellaneous and ill-regulated army (which was forcibly enrolled from the lands they had conquered), by constant attacks from Persians, Parthians, and Turks, and finally by continual treachery amongst their own adherents, to retreat to the territories whence their grandfather Temur had burst forth — that is to the region of Bactria and Sogdiana, whose chief cities are Samarcanda, Boccora and Balcum. When their affairs somewhat improved, they began — as is the way with kings — to plan fresh conquests. They were prevented by the power of the Turks and the Persians from attacking Media, Asia Minor or Armenia ; and hence began to harry Paharopanisus, Indoscythia and India, regions then ruled by the Patanaei. The Patanaei of the Paharopanisus and Indoscythia were first subdued, and the descendants of Temur established their capital at Chabulum in order to be the better prepared for crushing the remainder of the Patanaei. In this enterprise Baburus, the grandfather of Zelaldinus, and a great and famous soldier whose warlike prowess rivalled that of his ancestor Temur, was so markedly successful as to drive the Patanaei from almost the whole of their Indian dominions, confining them to a few small outlying principalities.