[200] bīr sūnkāk bār īkān dūr. I understand that something defiling must have been there, perhaps a bone.
[201] Khwājanīng ham āyāghlārī ārādā īdī.
[202] īlbāsūn, a kind of mallard (Abūshqa), here perhaps a popinjay. Cf. Ḥ.S. ii, 193 for Aḥmad’s skill as an archer, and Payne-Gallwey’s Cross-bow p. 225.
[203] qabāq, an archer’s mark. Abū’l-ghāzī (Kāsān ed. p. 181. 5) mentions a hen (tūqūq) as a mark. Cf. Payne-Gallwey l.c. p. 231.
[204] qīrghīcha, astar palumbarius. (Shaw’s Voc. Scully.)
[205] Perhaps, not quarrelsome.
[206] The T.R. (p. 116) attributes the rout to Shaibānī’s defection. The Ḥ.S. (ii, 192) has a varied and confused account. An error in the T.R. trs. making Shaibānī plunder the Mughūls, is manifestly clerical.
[207] i.e. condiment, ce qu’on ajoute au pain.
[208] Cf. f. 6.
[209] qāzāqlār; here, if Bābur’s, meaning his conflicts with Taṃbal, but as the Begīm may have been some time in Khujand, the qāzāqlār may be of Samarkand.