1898.] H. Beveridge —Memoirs of Bayazld ( Bajazet ) Biyat. 311 
jazaba , (attraction), and was insensible for several hours. Bayazid 
here refers again to his brother’s poetry and gives three specimens of 
it. He says that his brother took to writing verse at the order of 
Shah Qasim Anwar who appeared to him in a dream at Samarqand. 
P. 99a. Afzal Khan asked Bayazid to try and procure the release 
of Bairam Khan’s diwan Muzaffar ‘All Tarbati who was imprisoned in 
the house of Darvesh Muhammad Khan Uzbak. Bayazid mentioned the 
matter to his master, Mun‘im Khan who bade Bayazid remind him of the 
request when he went to Court. Next day when the Khan-khan an 
(Mun‘im) was in the house of Maham Begha, Bayazid gave him a 
reminder. Maham was present and observed that the matter was not 
of such great importance, and that it was only necessary to send some 
one to Darwesh Uzbak’s house to release Muzaffar. The Khan-khanan, 
however, said that his Majesty must first be consulted, whereon Maham 
volunteered to mention the matter. While they were talking, Akbar 
came in from the chase, and after borrowing a needle from Takhta, the 
mother of Das tarn Khan, 1 proceeded to extract the thorns, which had got 
into his feet in the jungle. Maham represented Muzaffar’s case and 
his Majesty granted the prayer and added that Muzaffar was reported 
to be able to write tuahra and that the Khan-khanan might, if he 
liked, take him into his employment. Akbar, we are told, was highly 
pleased with the Khan-khanan for not acting in even such a small 
matter as the release of Muzaffar without consulting him. 
In pp. 100-101 we have a description of a game of cards at which 
Akbar was present. Bayazid played the game on board a boat with 
Muqim Qara. Bayazid won, and as Muqim had no money to pay his 
losses, Bayazid stopped playing. Thereupon Muqim had to pledge his 
postin or great coat and to sit playing in the cold. Mr. Erskine 
remarks that the joke seems to have consisted in ]\luqim’s suffering 
from the cold. At 1016 we are told of Maham Begha’s kindness to 
the author and of her giving him a house in Agra. There was a nim 
tree in the grounds and Bahram Saqqa, his brother, got him to put up 
a saqqi-Vhana or water-house under it. Darwesh Nazir, one of the 
Saqqa’s disciples, put up a saqqi-khdna at the Fort Gate, and when 
Akbar rode out he used to take a drink, and also used to listen to 
recitations from the Saqqa’s Diwan. 
P. 102a tells a story about Akbar’s sending for eighteen rupees 
of which the only point seems to be the exhibition of Maham Anaga 
or Be gh a as a sort of centre of affairs. Akbar sent a eunuch to 
Khwaja Jahan for the money. He and other officers were in attend¬ 
ance on Maham Be gh a. and he peevishly said to the messenger “from 
1 Blochmann, 398. 
