315 
1898.] H. Beveridge -^—Memoirs of Bayazid (Bajazet) Blyfit. 
P. 135a;. has mention of Raja Gajpatl, (Blochmann, 399), who is 
! called Raja of the country of Aetna (P) and is said to have held 
the jagir of Bujpur and Bihiya, &c., extending over both banks of the 
! Granges..' At that time he was loyal. '4 • r!. n 
P. 147a. Gives an account of Mun‘im Khan’s removing his head¬ 
quarters from Tanda to Gaur (which Bayazid also calls Bangala), and of 
.the pestilence which broke out there. He says that the nature of the 
country is such that, a pestilence ( wabci) breaks out there every thirty 
years (qarn) and that on ithis occasion the plague was assisted by 
{ drunkenness ( kaif ). Mundm Khan was himself a victim, dying there, 
. according to Bayazid on the night of Monday, 18 Rajab 9824 On the 
v same might Muzaffar, the deposed king of Gujrat, and who afterwards 
escaped and 1 gave A kbar so much trouble, arrived at Gaur, having been 
sent there by Bayazid from Cunar according to Mun‘im’s orders. 
.Bayazid tells how lie himself went afterwards to Gaur and of the 
difficulty he had in taking charge of Mun‘im’s property. In this 
connection he mentions the! names of two women, viz., Seor (Sarw) 
Agha, Mun‘irn’s widow, whom lie describes as a reliable woman and one 
,wbo had been in tliekar.em of Babar and Humayun, and another lady, who 
was the mother of Khwaja Shall Mansur, who was Mun‘im’s bakhsJu. 
Bayazid said he had no wish after Mun‘im’s death to remain on active 
iservice. • He gave up his! post of governor of Cunar but held for 
a time the position of darn aha of the Treasury. In the beginning 
of 986, (March 1578), lie got leave to go to Mecca and left for that place 
with his wife and children. He was, however, detained for two years 
in Surat on account of a charge of malversation which was brought 
against him by liis enemies. He got over this difficulty and was able 
.to go to Daman, hut'there he had fresh troubles with the Portuguese 
and.had to pay a heavy ransom before he was allowed to sail. They 
reached Aden in fourteen days and there a small boat came out to 
them, which had been sent by Gulbadan Begam and other ladies 
who had been to .Mecca and were on their, return. Bayazid sent the 
Begams news of India, &c. He spent a considerable time in Mecca, 
and lost his wife and one of his sons there. He buried mother and 
child in one grave, and occupied it himself for one or two hours so that 
it should not be too small or narrow. He sent his other children home, 
hoping that he himself should end his days in Mecca and might be 
laid beside his wife. But he had to return to India in consequence of 
hearing that his family had been made prisoner by the Portuguese 
at Daman. He left in 990, (1582), but had to wait long in Mocha harbour 
for a favourable wind. At last the “olive season” ( mausim-i-zaituni) 
1 It should be 983. The English date is 23rd October, 1575. 
