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the audacity to lift off a Muzajfari (a silver coin) from it and to 
make over the tray 1 and all its contents to the balmwal. This was 
disrespect according to the imperial constitutions ( tura ).” Another 
was of a more serious nature, viz., that he had conspired with Shah 
Husain of Sind against Humayun, and that so Humayun had been 
driven to take refuge in Persia. Yadgar Kasir was found guilty and 
Muhammad ‘All Taghal (apparently Humayun’s mother’s brother), 
the governor of Kabul, was ordered to put him to death. But 
he refused, saying that he had never killed a sparrow, how then 
could he kill Prince Yadgar Hasir. Mun‘im Beg suggested the em¬ 
ployment of Muhammad Qasim MaujI, and he the same night had 
the Mirza strangled with a bow-string. Yadgar was buried in front 
of the citadel gate, but his body was afterwards exhumed and 
interred beside his father in Ghazni. Some time after this, Humayun, 
we are told, had a drinking party and when he got up was so unsteady 
that his foot slipped. His butler expressed sorrow that his master 
should take anything that could reduce him to such a state, and 
Humayun accepting the rebuke, vowed that he would never touch 
intoxicating drinks again. We are told that he kept his vow for the 
rest of his life. He also sent for the grave seigniors who had been his 
boon companions and told them that it should not have been left to his 
butler to warn him against evil courses. He now resolved to go to 
Badakhshan in order to coerce Mirza Sulaiman who had failed to 
present himself at Kabul. On the way he punished some men who had 
offended him. One of them, Mast! Firaq, he ordered to be thrown 
under the feet of an elephant. The man cried out that he had the 
holy Koran under his arm, and that they should first take this away 
in order that it might not be damaged. Search having been made, it 
was found under his armpit, and his piety was rewarded by a pardon. 
In Badakhshan Humayun fell dangerously ill and when he recovered 
found that Kamran had taken advantage of his illness to resume 
possession of Kabul. Humayun hurried back and succeeded in driving 
out Kamran for the second time. The latter fled to the north and was 
afterwards besieged in Tallqan (in Badakhshan) by Humayun. After 
a while he had to surrender and applied to his brother for leave to go 
to Mecca. Humayun was, however, too soft-hearted to insist on such 
an abdication and so recalled Kamran after lie had gone a little way on 
his journey, and bad an interview with him at Tallqan. Bayazid gives a 
full and curious account of the ceremonies with which Kamran was 
1 Probably the tray ( Tchwdn) here meant is that containing the food or soup, 
and the insolence consisted in the rejection of what the king had sent, and n mak¬ 
ing over the coins to a servant. 
