[1230] Second Afghān War, Map of Kābul and its environs.
[1231] I understand that the arrival undiscovered was a result of riding in single-file and thus shewing no black mass.
[1232] or gharbīcha, which Mr. Erskine explains to be the four plates of mail, made to cover the back, front and sides; the jība would thus be the wadded under-coat to which they are attached.
[1233] This prayer is composed of extracts from the Qorān (Méms, i, 454 note); it is reproduced as it stands in Mr. Erskine’s wording (p. 216).
[1234] Bābur’s reference may well be to Sanjar’s birth as well as to his being the holder of Nīngnahār. Sanjar’s father had been thought worthy to mate with one of the six Badakhshī begīms whose line traced back to Alexander (T. R. p. 107); and his father was a Barlās, seemingly of high family.
[1235] It may be inferred that what was done was for the protection of the two women.
[1236] Not a bad case could have been made out for now putting a Tīmūrid in Bābur’s place in Kābul; viz. that he was believed captive in Herī and that Mīrzā Khān was an effective locum tenens against the Arghūns. Ḥaidar sets down what in his eyes pleaded excuse for his father Muḥ. Ḥusain (T.R. p. 198).
[1237] qūsh, not even a little plough-land being given (chand qulba dihya, 215 f. 162).
[1238] They were sons of Sl. Aḥmad Khān Chaghatāī.
[1239] f. 160.