302 H. Beveridge — Memoirs of Bayazid ( Bajazet) Biydt. FNo. 4, 
received, and describes the entertainment which followed. There is 
also a description of this meeting in Princess Gulbadan’s Memoirs. 
One story which Bayazid tells is about a conversation during the 
festival between Husain Quli Sultan, the keeper of the seal, and 
Kamran. There was various discourse, he says, and Husain Quli 
told Kamran it was reported that at a meeting held by ‘Ubaidu-l-lah 
Khan, the question had been put whether a man who had not in his 
heart hatred to ‘All as big as an orange, could be called a Musulman ; 
that afterwards this subject had been brought up again in a meet¬ 
ing at which Kamran was present and that Kamran was reported to 
have remarked that it behoved a servant of God to have such a hatred 
as big as a pumpkin. Kamran was indignant at Husain Quli’s remarks 
and asked him if he took him for a heretic. To this the other replied 
that he was only repeating what he had heard, and that the recital 
of an infidel’s language did not make the repeater an infidel. As 
the Uzbaks were strong Sunnis it is not unlikely that the question 
was really put, and as Kamran was a Sunni or at least was desirous 
of pleasing the Sunnis and had married into an Uzbak family it is 
likely enough that he improved upon the question in the manner 
stated. This story is one of those which Abu’l-fazl has borrowed from 
Bayazid. 1 
The entertainment lasted for three days and was followed by a 
council meeting in which the propriety of making an attack on Balkh 
was discussed. It does not appear that Kamran was present at this 
council, or that he was invited to express his opinion about the expedi¬ 
tion. Very probably he was not asked for he himself had been a 
supplicant to the ruler of Balkh and had obtained some assistance from 
him in his contests with his brother. 
It is suggested by Erskine that the help which the Uzbak chief 
had given to Kamran was one of the motives for the attack on Balkh. 
There was considerable difference of opinion among the councillors, 
and in the end it was resolved that they should all march south to 
Naran where the roads to Balkh and Kabul separated and that they 
should there decide what they should do. On the way Humayun 
turned off to visit the fountain of Band Kusha near Ishkamish 
(in Badakhshan and E.-S.-E. of Kunduz. On the map there is a 
place marked Cashma (spring or of fountain) about 7 miles N. E. of 
Ishkamish). There he sent for the blacksmiths and bade them prepare 
an iron pen, saying that when his Majesty his father Babar returned 
1 It is also told by Shah Tahmasp in his Memoirs. See Teufel’s paper in Z. D. 
M. G. and Paul Horn’s trs. Strassburg 1892, p. .37. But Mr. Horn has erroneously 
made the orange a pomegranate. See Text, Z. D. M. G., Vol. 46, p. 596. 
