899 AH.— OCT. 12th. 1493 TO OCT. 2nd. 1494 19
of our leisure (fursatlar) ^ has come news that she has gone to God's mercy.
■i. His ladies and mistresses.
Qutluq-nigar Khanim was the second daughter of Yunas Khan and the eldest (half-) sister of SI. Mahmud Khan and SI. Ahmad Khan.
{j. Interpolated account of Bdbur's mother's family.)
Yunas Khan descended from Chaghatai Khan, the second rson of Chingiz Khan (as follows,) Yunas Khan, son of Wais Khan, son of Sher-'ali Aughldn, son of Muhammad Khan, son of Khizr Khwaja Khan, son of Tughluq-timur Khan, son of Aisan-bugha Khan, son of Dawa Khan, son of Baraq Khan, son of Yisuntawa Khan, son of Muatukan, son of Chaghatai Khan, son of Chingiz Khan.
Since such a chance has come, set thou down^ now a summary of the history of the Khans.
Yunas Khan (d. 892 AH.-1487 AD.) and Aisan-bugha Khan (d. 866 AH. -1462 AD.) were sons of Wais Khan (d. 832 AH.- 1428 AD.).^ Yunas Khan's mother was either a daughter or a grand-daughter of Shaikh Nuru'd-din Beg, a Turkistani Qipchaq favoured by Timur Beg. When Wais Khan died, the Mughal horde split in two, one portion being for Yunas Khan, the greater for Aisan-bugha Khan. For help in getting the upper hand in the horde, Airzin (var. Airazan) one of the Barin tuman-begs and Beg Mirik Turkman, one of the Chiras tuman-begs, took Yunas Khan (aet. 13) and with him foI. io. three or four thousand Mughul heads of houses (awiluq), to Aulugh Beg Mirza (Shahrukhi) with the fittingness that Aulugh Beg M. had taken Yunas Khan's elder sister for his son, 'Abdu'l-
1 This fatrat (interregnum) was between Babur's loss of Farghana and his gain of Kabul ; the fursatlar were his days of ease following success in Hindustan and allowing his book to be written.
2 qilaling, lit. do thou be (setting down), a verbal form recurring on f. 227b I. 2. With the same form {ait)dling, lit. do thou be saying, the compiler of the Abushqd introduces his quotations. Shaw's paradigm, qiling only. Cf. A.Q.R. Jan. 1911, p. 2.
^ Kehr's MS. (Ilminsky p. 12) and its derivatives here interpolate the -erroneous statement that the sons of Yunas were Afaq and Baba Khans.
