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1898.] H. Beveridge —Memoirs of Bayazid ( Bajazet ) Biyat. 
Bahram Saqqa who had not then become a darvesh and was in Gardiz, 
65 miles S.-E. Kabul, in the service of Mirza Kamran. Later on, p. 19a, 
Bayazid tells us that Kamran took Gardiz, Naghaz, and Bangash from 
his brother Shah Bardi and gave them to Khizr Khan Hazara with 
instructions to guard the line of march from Qandahar and Ghazni. 
Shah Bardi alias Bahram Saqqa received in exchange the districts of 
Ghurband (N.-W\ Kabul), Zohak and Bamian, but when he came to 
pay his respects to Kamran on his way thither, Kamran requested him 
to put off his journey to Ghurband till the affairs of the army had 
been settled. So Bahram and his brother Bayazid stayed at Kabul 
till Kamran had reviewed his troops and till the arrival of Humayun. 
This was followed by the desertion of all Kamran’s officers. Shah 
Bardi was one of them and joined Humayun along with the famous 
Bapus Beg and with Bayazid. Humayun entered Kabul on the 10th 
Ramazan 1 952, (16th November, 1545), and had the pleasure of meeting 
again his wives and sisters, and his little son Akbar. Bayazid records 
that Muayyid Beg Duldai Barlas died only a week after the taking of 
Kabul, and that this was the cause of universal joy, every body saying 
that he was the Satan of mankind, and was the cause of Humayun’s 
losing India, and that now there was hope that Humayun would 
recover that country. This is the same Muayyid who was so brutal as 
to cut off the hands of about 2,000 men who formed the garrison of 
Cunar and had capitulated. 2 Bayazid is charitable enough to express 
the hope that Munkir and Nakir, the two angels who question the 
departed, may not have been so severe on Muayyid as were his fellow-men. 
In the spring of 1546, Maryam-makani, Akbar’s mother, arrived from 
Qandahar and the circumcision of Akbar, then between four and five 
years old, was celebrated in March of that year with great splendour, 
the city being illuminated, &c. for forty days. It was on the occasion 
of this ainbandi or festival that Bayazid’s brother, Shah Bardi, 
came under a spell, 3 or was drawn to religion so forcibly that he gave 
up his profession of a soldier and became a w T ater-carrier under the 
1 There is, as Erskine observes, Hist. II. 325, a discrepancy about this date, 
but he seems wrong in saying that Bayazid gives the year as 953. His own copy 
has 952 ; and that this is correct appears from the statement on p. 224, that the 
festivities at Kabul took place in the beginning of 953. 
2 The statement that Muayyid was the cause of Humayun’s losing India is 
corroborated by Jauhar, (pp. 15 and 16 of Stewart), who says that it was owing 
to Muayyid’s advice that Humayun crossed to the south-west of the Granges, a step 
which led to the disaster of Causa. 
3 Memoirs p. 19a jazaba rasida lit., an attraction or drawing occurred. There 
is another reference to this brother at p. 98a. 
