[925] They were located in Mandrāwar in 926 AH. (f. 251).
[926] This was done, manifestly, with the design of drawing after the families their fighting men, then away with Bābur.
[927] f. 163. Shaibāq Khān besieged Chīn Ṣufī, Sl. Ḥusain Mīrzā’s man in Khwārizm (T. R. p. 204; Shaibānī-nāma, Vambéry, Table of Contents and note 89).
[928] Survey Map 1889, Sadda. The Rāgh-water flows n.w. into the Oxus (Amū).
[929] birk, a mountain stronghold; cf. f. 149b note to Birk (Barak).
[930] They were thus driven on from the Bārān-water (f. 154b).
[931] f. 126b.
[932] Ḥiṣār, presumably.
[933] Here “His Honour” translates Bābur’s clearly ironical honorific plural.
[934] These two sult̤āns, almost always mentioned in alliance, may be Tīmūrids by maternal descent (Index s.nn.). So far I have found no direct statement of their parentage. My husband has shewn me what may be one indication of it, viz. that two of the uncles of Shaibāq Khān (whose kinsmen the sult̤āns seem to be), Qūj-kūnjī and Sīūnjak, were sons of a daughter of the Tīmūrid Aūlūgh Beg Samarkandī (Ḥ.S. ii, 318). See Vambéry’s Bukhārā p. 248 note.