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up his success by taking Kabul wliicli now fell into his possession for 
the third time. 
The next event recorded is the negotiation for Humayun’s 
marriage with Shahzada Khanam, the daughter of Mirza Sulaiman of 
Badakhshan. The story is told at wearisome length, the only interest 
in it being the revelation of the haughty and. masterful character of 
Haram (or Khanam) Begam, the wife of Sulaiman. She was indignant 
that persons of such inferior rank as Khwaja Jalalu-d-din and Blbl 
Fatima should be sent to demand the hand of her daughter, and taunting¬ 
ly told Fatima that her business in Kabul was the enticing away of 
men’s daughters. “ Did you think of getting my daughter in that 
way ?” she said. “ Why has none of the Begams or Aghacas come ; if 
my daughter’s name is not great, the reputation of his Majesty the 
king is great.” Haram became mollified after a while and sent a 
message to Humayun that she would be proud to give him her daughter 
if lie came for her. Presumably the marriage never took place for we 
hear no more of it, and the fact that Haram’s son Ibrahim was after¬ 
wards married to Humayun’s daughter, Bakhshi Banu, would surely 
prevent a marriage between Humayun and Ibrahim’s sister. Haram 
in her message to Humayun spoke of his traversing the defiles of the 
Hindu Kush and this leads Bayazid to observe (p. 59 a) that the name 
of these mountains was changed to Hindu K5h by Akbar in 994, (1586), 
because he perceived that the range extended from the limits of Bengal 
to the borders of Tabriz, and because the shrines of Tabriz saints 
are to be found on its slopes. 1 
After this comes the account of the night attack by Kamran on 
Humayun’s camp and the death of Mirza Hindal. Bayazid records 
the cynical remark made by Mun‘im Khan upon this event. Coming up 
to Humayun, he inquired why he was weeping. “ Because I have heard 
that Mirza Hindal has been martyred,” replied Humayun. “ You lament 
your own good,” said Mun'im, “you have one enemy less.” Upon this 
his Majesty stinted his tears. Hindal’s death took place in 958, (1551), 
and the word “ BhabMiun ,” (night attack) gives the chronogram. Here 
Bayazid digresses to tell a story about Akbar, belonging to this year. 
The young prince was having his lessons with the son of Mulla 
Hisamu-d-dm, a famous doctor of Samarqand, in a tent in his mother’s 
1 Bayazid adds a “ God knows,” to this rather unintelligible explanation. 
There are Tombs of Tabriz Saints in India, e. g., of Jalalu-d-din at Pandua, in 
the Mai da district. Akbar may have thought of him because his own name was 
Jalalu-d-din and may have thought that by calling the range Hindu-Koh he was 
grounding a claim to it. At all events, this fact that he invented the name 
Hiudu-koh is interesting. 
