FOOTNOTES (continued 1)
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Babur, Emperor of Hindustan and Beveridge, Annette Susannah
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[672] The ālāchūq, a tent of flexible poles, covered with felt, may be the khargāh (kibitka); Persian chādar seems to represent Turkī āq awī, white house.
[673]i.e. with Khusrau’s power shaken by Aūzbeg attack, made in the winter of 909 AH. (Shaibānī-nāma cap. lviii).
[674] 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.
[675] var. Chaqānīān and Saghānīān. The name formerly described the whole of the Ḥiṣār territory (Erskine).
[676] the preacher by whom the Khut̤ba is read (Erskine).
[677]bī bāqī or bī Bāqī; perhaps a play of words with the double meaning expressed in the above translation.
[678] Amongst these were widows and children of Bābur’s uncle, Maḥmūd (f. 27b).
[679]aūghūl. As being the son of Khusrau’s sister, Aḥmad was nephew to Bāqī; there may be in the text a scribe’s slip from one aūghūl to another, and the real statement be that Aḥmad was the son of Bāqī’s son, Muḥ. Qāsim, which would account for his name Aḥmad-i-qāsim.
[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.
[690] From Taṃbal, to put down whom he had quitted his army near Balkh (Sh. N. cap. lix).
[691] This, one of the many Red-rivers, flows from near Kāhmard and joins the Andar-āb water near Dūshī.
[692] A garī is twenty-four minutes.
[693] Qorān, Surat iii, verse 25; Sale’s Qorān, ed. 1825, i, 56.
[694] Cf. f. 82.
[695]viz. Bāī-sanghar, bowstrung, and Mas‘ūd, blinded.
[696] 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).
[697] Cf. T. R. p. 134 n. and 374 n.
[698]Jība, so often used to describe the quilted corselet, seems to have here a wider meaning, since the jība-khāna contained both joshan and kūhah, i.e. coats-of-mail and horse-mail with accoutrements. It can have been only from this source that Bābur’s men obtained the horse-mail of f. 127.
[699] He succeeded his father, Aūlūgh Beg Kābulī, in 907 AH.; his youth led to the usurpation of his authority by Sherīm Ẕikr, one of his begs; but the other begs put Sherīm to death. During the subsequent confusions Muḥ. Muqīm Arghūn, in 908 AH., got possession of Kābul and married a sister of ‘Abdu’r-razzāq. Things were in this state when Bābur entered the country in 910 AH. (Erskine).
[700] var. Ūpīān, a few miles north of Chārikār.
[701] 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.
[702] The lines are in the Preface to the Anwār-i-suhailī (Lights of Canopus).
[703] “Die Kirghis-qazzāq drücken die Sonnen-höhe in Pikenaus” (von Schwarz, p. 124).
[704] Presumably, dark with shade, as in qarā-yīghāch, the hard-wood elm (f. 47b and note to narwān).
[705]i.e. Sayyid Muḥammad ‘Alī, the door-ward. These būlāks seem likely to have been groups of 1,000 fighting-men (Turki Mīng).
[706] In-the-water and Water-head.
[707] Walī went from his defeat to Khwāst; wrote to Maḥmūd Aūzbeg in Qūndūz to ask protection; was fetched to Qūndūz by Muḥ. Ṣāliḥ, the author of the Shaibānī-nāma, and forwarded from Qūndūz to Samarkand (Sh. N. cap. lxiii). Cf. f. 29b.
[708]i.e. where justice was administered, at this time, outside Bābur’s tent.
[709] They would pass Ajar and make for the main road over the Dandān-shikan Pass.
[710] The clansmen may have obeyed Aḥmad’s orders in thus holding up the families.
[711] The name may be from Turkī tāq, a horse-shoe, but I.O. 215 f. 102 writes Persian naqīb, the servant who announces arriving guests.