309 
1898.] H. Beveridge — Memoirs of Bayazid (Bajazet ) Biyat. 
From p. 77 b we learn that Bayazid left without notice the service 
of Khwaja Jalalu-d-din on account of some injury which he received 
from the Khwaja’s brother. He went to Bangash where ‘All Qull 
Shaibani was, whom he had known in his childhood at Tabriz, but even¬ 
tually he proceeded to Kabul and became the servant of Mun‘im Khan. 
The brother of the Khwaja here referred to was Jalalu-d-din Mas‘ud 
who was afterwards put to death along with his elder brother, 1 by 
Mun‘im Khan. See Ma' asiru-l-umara I. 617. 
For several pages after this the Memoirs are occupied with an 
account of the siege of Kabul by Sulaiman Mirza of Badakhshan, and 
his son Ibrahim. It seems that on Humayun’s death Sulaiman con¬ 
sidered that as the oldest member of the great Timur’s family he was 
entitled to a share in Humayun’s dominions. Bayazid, according to his 
own account, took a prominent part in repelling the attack, and was 
wounded by an arrow. Sulaiman did not take the town, but a com¬ 
promise was made whereby his Imam was allowed to read the Jchutba 
in his name for one day in Kabul. 2 
At p. 87 b we are told that Mun‘im Khan came out of Kabul as soon 
as the siege was over and proceeded towards Bagh-dih-afghanan. 
On the way—in front of the royal baths—he met Khwaja Miraki, the 
dlwan of Maryam-makani, who had stayed outside during the siege and 
had sided with Mirza Sulaiman. Mun‘im at once had him pulled off 
his horse and hanged at the door ( ishak) of a costermonger’s shop. 
The interest of this entry lies in the fact that Khwaja Miraki was the 
grandfather of Nizamu-d-din the historian. 
P. 88a tells that Sultan ‘Adili, the successor of Sikandar, died near 
Allahabad, and that the famous Hemu vowed to God that if he 
defeated the Mughuls he would become a Musulman. On the next page 
Bayazid expresses his satisfaction that God erased from the infidel’s 
heart the recollection of this vow after he had defeated Tardi Beg. 
As the glory of Timur, he says, had descended to Humayun, and then 
been transferred to Akbar, God, on the field of Panipat, put forgetful¬ 
ness of his vow into Hemu’s heart. The same page describes how 
Bairarn Khan put Tardi Beg to death. He had an old grudge against 
him, and used his defeat by Hemu as a pretext for assassinating him. 
He sent for him, we are told, to his own house, then left the room on 
pretence of a necessary purpose, and sent in men who put Tardi Beg 
to death on the carpeted floor of the diwanMiana. A few pages further 
on (92a) we are told that the reason for Bairam’s dislike of Tardi Beg 
1 Bloclimarm calls him the son of Jalalu-d-din Mahmud, 384. 
2 The account by Ni^amu-d-dln, Elliot V, 249, may be compared with this. 
