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Rh recrossed it near Qulba, entered the town by the Shaikh-zāda's Gate and reached the citadel in the middle of the afternoon.

Begs of our greatest, braves of our best and many men perished in that fight. There died Ibrāhīm Tarkhān, Ibrāhīm Sārū and Ibrāhīm Jānī; oddly enough three great begs named Ibrāhīm perished. There died also Ḥaidar-i-qãsim's eldest son, Abū'l-qāsim Kohbur, and Khudāī-bīrdī Tūghchī and Khalīl, Taṃbal's younger brother, spoken of already several times. Many of our men fled in different directions; Muḥ. Mazīd Tarkhān went towards Qiinduz and Hisar for Khusrau Shah. Fol. 91. Some of the household and of the braves, such as Karim-dad-i- Khudai-birdi Turkman and Janaka Kukulddsh and Mulla Baba of Pashaghar got away to Aiira-tipa. Mulla Baba at that time was not in my service but had gone out with me in a guest's fashion. Others again, did what Sherim Taghai and his band did ; — though he had come back with me into the town and though when consultation was had, he had agreed with the rest to make the fort fast, looking for life or death within it, yet spite of this, and although my mothers and sisters, elder and younger, stayed on in Samarkand, he sent off their wives and families to Aiira-tipa and remained himself with just a few men, all unencumbered. Not this once only ! Whenever hard • work had to be done, low and double-minded action was the thing to expect from him ! (A. Babur besieged in Samarkand.) Next day, I summoned Khwaja Abii'l-makaram, Qasim and the other begs, the household and such of the braves as were admitted to our counsels, when after consultation, we resolved to make the fort fast and to look for life or death within it. I and Qasim Beg with my close circle and household were the Pluck not an ear from the Mughul's corn-land. What is sown with Mughul seed will be bad. This verse is written into the text of the First W.-i-B. (I.O. 215 f. 72) and is introduced by a scribe's statement that it is by an Hazrat, much as notes known to be Humayun's are elsewhere attested in the Elph. Codex. It is not in the Hai. and Kehr's MSS. nor with, at least many, good copies of the Second W.-i-B.