14 FARGHANA
M. and SI. Mahmud Mirza. His father, SI. Abu-sa'Id Mirza, was the son of SI. Muhammad Mirza, son of Timur Beg's third son, Miran-shah M. and was younger than 'Umar Shaikh Mirza, (the elder) and Jahangir M. but older than Shahrukh Mirza.
c. 'Umar Shaikh Mirza' s country.
His father first gave him Kabul and, with Baba-i-KabulI^ for his guardian, had allowed him to set out, but recalled him from the Tamarisk Valley 2 to Samarkand, on account of the Mirzas' Circumcision Feast. When the Feast was over, he gave him Andijan with the appropriateness that Timur Beg had given Farghana (Andijan) to his son, the elder 'Umar Shaikh Mirza. This done, he sent him off with Khudai-birdi Tughchi Timur- idsh 3 for his guardian.
d. His appearance and characteristics.
He was a short and stout, round-bearded and fleshy-faced Foi. 7. person.4 He used to wear his tunic so very tight that to fasten the strings he had to draw his belly in and, if he let himself out after tying them, they often tore away. He was not choice in dress or food. He wound his turban in a fold (dastar-pech) ; all turbans were in four folds (char-pech) in those days ; people
means of information were less good. He however both was the son of Mahmud 's wazir (Il.S. ii. 194) and supplemented his book in Babur's presence.
To a statement made by the writer of the biographies included in Kehr's B.N. volume, that 'U.S.'s family [aumagh) is not known, no weight can be attached, spite of the co-incidence that the Mongol form of aumagh, i.e. aumdk means Mutter-leib. The biographies contain too many known mistakes for their compiler to outweigh Khwand-amir in authority.
^ Cf. Rauzatu' s-safa vi, 266. (H.B.)
2 Dara-i-gaz, south of Balkh. This historic feast took place at Merv in 870 AH. (1465 AD,). As 'Umar Shaikh was then under ten, he may have been one of the Mirzas concerned.
3 Khudai-birdI is a Pers.-Turki hybrid equivalent of Theodore ; tughchi implies the right to use or (as hereditary standard-bearer,) to guard the tugh ; Timur-tash may mean i.a. Friend of Timur (a title not excluded here as borne by inheritance. Cf. f. 12b and note). Sword -friend {i.e. Companion-in-arms), and Iron-friend {i.e. stanch). Cf. Diet. s.n. Timur-bash, a sobriquet of Charles XII.
4 Elph. and Hai. MSS. quba yUzluq ; this is under-lined in the Elph. MS. by ya'ni pur ghosht. Cf. f. 68b for the same phrase. The four earlier trss. viz. the two W.-i-B., the English and the French, have variants in this passage.
