900 AH.— OCT. 2ND. 1494 to SEP. 21st. 1495 AD.1
This year SI. Mahmud Mirza sent an envoy, named ' Abdu'l- qadus Beg,^ to bring me a gift from the wedding he had made with splendid festivity for his eldest son, Mas'ud Mirza with (Saliha-sultan), the Fair Begim, the second daughter of his elder brother, SI. Ahmad Mirza. They had sent gold and silver almonds and pistachios.
There must have been relationship between this envoy and Hasan-i-yaq'ub, and on its account he will have been the man sent to make Hasan-i-yaq'ub, by fair promises, look towards SI. Mahmud Mirza. Hasan-i-yaq'ub returned him a smooth answer, made indeed as though won over to his side, and gave him leave to go. Five or six months later, his manners changed entirely ; he began to behave ill to those about me and to others, and he carried matters so far that he would have dismissed me in order to put Jahangir Mirza in my place. Moreover his conversation with the whole body of begs and soldiers was not what should be ; every-one came to know what was in his mind. Khwaja-i-Qazi and (Sayyid) Qasim Quchin and 'Ali-dost Taghai met other well-wishers of mine in the presence of my grandmother, Aisan-daulat Begim and decided to give quietus to Hasan-i-yaq'ub's disloyalty by his deposition.
Few amongst women will have been my grandmother's equals for judgment and counsel; she was very wise and far- sighted and most affairs of mine were carried through under her advice. She and my mother were (living) in the Gate- house of the outer fort;^ Hasan-i-yaq'ub was in the citadel.
1 Elph. MS. f. i6b ; First W.-i-B. I.O. 215 f. 19 ; Second W.-i-B. I.O. 217 f. 15b ; Memoirs p. 27.
2 He was a Dughlat, uncle by marriage of Haidar Mirza and now holding Khost for Mahmud. See T.R. s.n. for his claim on Aisan-daulat's gratitude.
3 task qurghan da chiqar da. Here (as e.g. i. 110b 1. 9) the Second W.-i-B. translates tash as though it meant stone instead of outer. Cf. f. 47 for an
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