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name of Bahrain Saqqa. His brother adds that he composed a diwan 
or collection of poems which has been acceptable to all, both the elect 
and the general public, and that he went off to Turkistan, reciting, or 
making a rosary of ( tasbih numuda l ) the Persian diwan of Shah Qasim 
Anwar, 2 and the Turki diwan of Shah Nasimi. 3 We shall hear of 
him again as a water-carrier in the streets of Agra. 
After some days of feasting the royal party went to visit Khwaja 
Reg-rawan, the site of the moving sand, and there the princes 
engaged in wrestling-bouts. Humayun wrestled with Imam Quit 
Qurcl, and Mirza Hindal with his cousin Mirza Yadgar Nasir. After 
that they went to Khwaja Sih Yaran, the Place of the Three Friends 
(Jarrett’s Ain II, 409 n), to admire the arghawan tree blossoms of the 
Daman-i-koli. About this time Caghatai Sultan who was a Mughul 
prince of great promise and an universal favourite died, and one Mir 
Amani made a pretty chronogram about him. After describing him as 
a rose and saying that in the season of the rose he meditated a journey, 
the verses wind up thus :— 
“ I sought the date from the bereaved nightingale and she said 
weeping, the rose has gone out of the garden ” (gul az bdah birun shud ). 
Here if we take 50, the numerical value of gul, from 1003, the value of 
bdah. we get the date 953. 4 With this, Bayazid ends the first chapter 
of his memoirs. 
The next opens with an account of the trial and execution of 
Mirza Yadgar Nasir which took place in the end of 953, (January 
1547). It seems that a regular indictment was preferred, consisting 
of nearly thirty articles. One of them went as far back as the taking 
of Campanir in 1535 and was as follows :—“ On the taking of the Fort 
of Campanir we (Humayun) had come into the treasury and had 
commanded that no one, unless sent for, should come to the treasury- 
door, but you came without orders and sent your respects through a 
bakdwal (Steward) who had brought us a special dish of soup. We 
left coins of all sorts on the tray and sent soup to you, and you had 
1 Perhaps tasbi‘ making a seven fold copy. 
2 A native of Tabriz which may account for Bahrain's attachment to his poetry. 
He was a mystic poet and died 837 A.H. or 1434 near Harat. There is a good 
account of him in Beale’s Oriental Dictionary, but the date of his death there given 
seems wrong. 
3 See Professor Browne on the Hanafi sect in J. R. A. S., January, 1898, pp. 62 
and 67. Nasimi was put to death for heterodoxy at Aleppo in 820 (1417). Nasim 
is a district near Baghdad. The poet’s real name was Saiyid ‘Imadu-d-din. See 
Rieu’s Catalogue of Turkish MSS. 165a. 
4 Badaoni has a similar chronogram on the death of Bairam. Lowe’s transla¬ 
tion, p. 41. 
