1898.] H. Beveridge— Memoirs of Bayazid ( Bajazet ) Bhgd,t. 3] 3 
rang kardand ). Erskine supposes (in his translation) that this is a 
euphemism for drinking wine. It may also refer to the eating of betel 
or to smoking. Evidently it was something unusual or improper, for 
Bayazid excuses himself for joining in the teeth-colouring by saying 
that he always tried to go in for good fellowship. 
P. 105a records that Bayazid got the title of Sultan from Akbar. 
P. 1056 describes the assassination of Shamsu-d-din by Adham Khan. 
When Akbar was roused by the noise and came and saw the body and 
Adham, he called the latter kandu, (filth), or perhaps gandu, (sodomite), 
and struck him a blow on the ear and stunned him. (According to Abu‘l- 
fazl the expression used by Akbar was “ son of a bitch ”). After 
putting Adham to death, Akbar went to Maham’s house and said to her 
“ Mama, we have killed Adham.” Shortly afterwards he put his 
uncle, Khwaja Mu'azzam to death for murdering liis wife. A few days 
later Akbar had a conversation with the Khan-khan an. and asked him 
what the people said of his reign. The Khan-khanan replied, “ My 
king, (may you live 120 years!) the people love you and admire your 
perfect justice in killing Adham Khan for the murder of the Atka, and 
in putting to death Mu‘azzam Sultan for murdering the daughter of 
Bibi Fatima.” His Majesty rejoined, “I have done something better 
than this ; it is strange that you don’t mention it, but you know it all 
the same, though from certain considerations you don’t refer to it.” 
“ What thing is it,” said the Khan Khanan, “ that I know and from 
certain considerations do not speak of ? ” Akbar replied, “ What I have 
done better is this, that I have brought all the Atka’s relations from 
Lahor, and have scattered them like the stars of the ‘ Daughters of 
the Bear,’ 1 giving them fiefs all over Hindustan.” 8 
The Memoirs now become rather tedious and uninteresting, though 
here and there we can glean valuable information. 
At p. 1086, we have a reference to one Jabar Bardi Beg who had 
served under Babar and had for many years been a darwesh and had 
settled in Badakhshan. He was now returning thither after visiting the 
tomb of Humayun. Many pages are taken up with an account of 
Mun‘im Khan’s return to Kabul and his defeat at Jalalabad. At p. 1176, 
1 The expression is dar rang-i-bandtu-n-na‘§h panshan Tcarda haryalcrd bahar 
gdjha-i-Hindustan jdgtr farmada im. Bindtu-n-na' sh is the Arabic name for the 
constellation of the Great Bear whose stars stand apart and are not clustered like 
those of the Pleiades. 
2 Probably Akbar thought that Mun‘im did not refer to this act of justice or 
generosity because there was an old quarrel between Mun‘im and the Atka and it 
was even supposed that Mun'im was the instigator of the murder. See Blochmann, 
p. 321. 
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