[680] Cf. f. 67.
[681] Bābur’s loss of rule in Farghāna and Samarkand.
[682] about 7 miles south of Aībak, on the road to Sar-i-tāgh (mountain-head, Erskine).
[683] viz. the respective fathers, Maḥmūd and ‘Umar Shaikh. The arrangement was made in 895 AH. (1490 AD.).
[684] Gulistān cap. i, story 3. Part of this quotation is used again on f. 183.
[685] Maḥmūd’s sons under whom Bāqī had served.
[686] Uncles of all degrees are included as elder brethren, cousins of all degrees, as younger ones.
[687] Presumably the ferries; perhaps the one on the main road from the north-east which crosses the river at Fort Murgh-āb.
[688] 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 (T̤abaqāt-i-akbarī, Elliot & Dowson, v, 392, and A.N. Bib. Ind., 3rd ed., 441). Tūqūz-aūlūm is too far up the river to be Arnold’s “shorn and parcelled Oxus”.
[689] 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 et seq.