The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
Babur, Emperor of Hindustan, 1483-1530; Mogul Empire
Tīmūr Beg had gone into Hindūstān; from the time he went out again these
several countries _viz._ Bhīra, Khūsh-āb, Chīn-āb and Chīnīūt, had been
held by his descendants and the dependants and adherents of those
descendants. After the death of Sl. Mas`ūd Mīrzā and his son `Alī
_Asghar_ Mīrzā, the sons of Mīr `Alī Beg [Sidenote: Fol. 225.] _viz._
Bābā-i-kābulī, Daryā Khān and Apāq Khān, known later as Ghāzī Khān, all
of whom Sl. Mas`ūd M. had cherished, through their dominant position,
got possession of Kābul, Zābul and the afore-named countries and
_parganas_ of Hindūstān. In Sl. Abū-sa`īd Mīrzā's time, Kābul and Zābul
went from their hands, the Hindūstān countries remaining. In 910 AH.
(1504 AD.) the year I first came into Kābul, the government of Bhīra,
Khūsh-āb and Chīn-āb depended on Sayyid `Alī Khān, son of Ghāzī Khān and
grandson of Mīr `Alī Beg, who read the _khuṯba_ for Sikandar son of
Buhlūl (_Lūdī Afghān_) and was subject to him. When I led that army out
(910 AH.) Sayyid `Alī Khān left Bhīra in terror, crossed the
Bahat-water, and seated himself in Sher-kot, one of the villages of
Bhīra. A few years later the Afghāns became suspicious about him on my
account; he, giving way to his own fears and anxieties, made these
countries over to the then governor [Sidenote: Fol. 225b.] in Lāhūr,
Daulat Khān, son of Tātār Khān _Yūsuf-khail_, who gave them to his own
eldest son `Alī Khān, and in `Alī Khān's possession they now were.
(_Author's note on Sl. Mas`ūd Mīrzā._) He was the son of
Sūyūrghatmīsh Mīrzā, son of Shāhrukh Mīrzā, (son of Tīmūr),
and was known as Sl. Mas`ūd _Kābulī_ because the government
and administration of Kābul and Zābul were then dependent on
him (deposed 843 AH.-1440 AD.)
(_Author's note to 910 AH._) That year, with the wish to enter
Hindūstān, Khaibar had been crossed and Parashāwūr (_sic_) had
been reached, when Bāqī _Chaghānīānī_ insisted on a move
against Lower Bangash _i.e._ Kohāt, a mass of Afghāns were
raided and scraped clean (_qīrīb_), the Bannū plain was raided
and plundered, and return was made through Dūkī (Dūgī).
(_Author's note on Daulat Khān Yūsuf-khail._) This Tātār Khān,
the father of Daulat Khān, was one of six or seven _sardārs_
who, sallying out and becoming dominant in Hindūstān, made
Buhlūl Pādshāh. He held the country north of the Satluj
(_sic_) and Sahrind,[1409] the revenues of which exceeded 3
_krūrs_.[1410] On Tātār Khān's death, Sl. Sikandar (_Lūdī_),
as over-lord, took those countries from Tātār Khān's sons and
gave Lāhūr only to Daulat Khān. That happened a year or two
before I came into the country of Kābul (910 AH.).
(_l. Bābur's journey resumed._)
(_Feb. 22nd_) Next morning foragers were sent to several convenient
places; on the same day I visited Bhīra; and on the same day Sangur Khān
_Janjūha_ came, made offering of a horse, and did me obeisance.
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