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the aid of a boat. On another occasion, when Sultan Abi S‘aid 
has sent against him Mirza Muh. Bakhshi with 3,000 horse, 
Sultan Husain defeated his opponents though he had only 600 
. Tahir also tells us that when Sultan Husain had become 
old and feeble, he suffered from hemiplegia (maflaj), and could 
not ride, and was carried about in a litter (Takht rawan). He 
_ The 8th son was Faridiin Husain. Both Babur and Tahir 
give an account of him. With regard to Babur’s account of 
his prowess as an archer (Erskine 180), it seems to me that 
Paridiin’s bow, kaman guroh, was, as its name implies, a bullet- 
bow, i.e. a catapult or balista, and that what Babur means is 
that it was so powerful that it carried a ball forty batman in 
weight. 
_ Babur says of the 14th son, Muh. Qasim Mirza, that he 
will make mention of him later. But he does not do so, so the 
Probability is that he has made a mistake, and that the 14th 
Son died in infancy, as stated by Tahir. Tahir’s estimates of 
Babur’s officers sometimes differ from Babur’s and he occasion- 
to say about ‘Ali Shir, and he says that Kamalu-d-din was real- 
lv a Saivid. He has no evil to sav of Zu-l-niin Arghi 
n. 
the madarzada Mulla Osman (Erskine 192) he says that Sultan 
Hasain detained him when he was returning from Mecca, not 
en he was on his way there. : 
! Note of other discre i 
pancies. 
In the account of Herat Babur says Badya Zaman’s Mosque was on 
ate Anjil or Mjal river. Tahir says it was on the bank of atank. Tahir 
Says, a 
