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Cf. ff. 81 and 81b. The armourer’s station was low for an envoy to Bābur, the superior in birth of the armourer’s master.
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var. Chaqānīān and Saghānīān. The name formerly described the whole of the Ḥiṣār territory (Erskine).
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the preacher by whom the
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Amongst these were widows and children of Bābur’s uncle, Maḥmūd (f. 27b).
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Cf. f. 67.
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Bābur’s loss of rule in Farghāna and Samarkand.
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about 7 miles south of Aībak, on the road to Sar-i-tāgh (mountain-head, Erskine).
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Maḥmūd’s sons under whom Bāqī had served.
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Uncles of all degrees are included as elder brethren, cousins of all degrees, as younger ones.
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Presumably the ferries; perhaps the one on the main road from the north-east which crosses the river at Fort Murgh-āb.
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Nine deaths, perhaps where the Amū is split into nine channels at the place where Mīrzā Khān’s son Sulaimān later met his rebel grandson Shāh-rukh (
682
Shaibāq himself had gone down from Samarkand in 908 AH. and in 909 AH. and so permanently located his troops as to have sent their families to them. In 909 AH. he drove Khusrau into the mountains of Badakhshān, but did not occupy Qūndūz; thither Khusrau returned and there stayed till now, when Shaibāq again came south (fol. 123). See Sh. N. cap. lviii
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From Taṃbal, to put down whom he had quitted his army near Balkh (Sh. N. cap. lix).
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This, one of the many Red-rivers, flows from near Kāhmard and joins the Andar-āb water near Dūshī.
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A
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Qorān,
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Cf. f. 82.
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Muḥ. Ṣāliḥ is florid over the rubies of Badakhshān he says Bābur took from Khusrau, but Ḥaidar says Bābur not only had Khusrau’s property, treasure, and horses returned to him, but refused all gifts Khusrau offered. “This is one trait out of a thousand in the Emperor’s character.” Ḥaidar mentions, too, the then lack of necessaries under which Bābur suffered (Sh. N., cap. lxiii, and T.R. p. 176).
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Cf. T. R. p. 134 n. and 374 n.
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He succeeded his father, Aūlūgh Beg
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var. Ūpīān, a few miles north of Chārikār.
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Suhail (Canopus) is a most conspicuous star in Afghānistān; it gives its name to the south, which is never called Janūb but Suhail; the rising of Suhail marks one of their seasons (Erskine). The honour attaching to this star is due to its seeming to rise out of Arabia Felix.
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The lines are in the Preface to the
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“Die Kirghis-qazzāq drücken die Sonnen-höhe in Pikenaus” (von Schwarz, p. 124).
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Presumably, dark with shade, as in
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In-the-water and Water-head.
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Walī went from his defeat to Khwāst; wrote to Maḥmūd
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They would pass Ajar and make for the main road over the Dandān-shikan Pass.
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The clansmen may have obeyed Aḥmad’s orders in thus holding up the families.
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The name may be from Turkī
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Here, as immediately below, when mentioning the Chār-bāgh and the tomb of Qūtlūq-qadam, Bābur uses names acquired by the places at a subsequent date. In 910 AH. the Taster was alive; the Chār-bāgh was bought by Bābur in 911 AH., and Qūtlūq-qadam fought at Kānwāha in 933 AH.
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The Kūcha-bāgh is still a garden about 4 miles from Kābul on the north-west and divided from it by a low hill-pass. There is still a bridge on the way (Erskine).
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Presumably that on which the Bālā-ḥiṣār stood, the glacis of a few lines further.
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Cf. f. 130.
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One of Muqīm’s wives was a Tīmūrid, Bābur’s first-cousin, the daughter of Aūlūgh Beg