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“ Hissar ” of our maps—where he was subsequently blinded and put 
to death by the Hakim of that part, Amir Kliursau Shah, after he had 
set him up as sovereign there, in Muharram, 905 H. (August, 1199 
A. D.) “ Husain Baikara ” was, consequently, never “ Governor of 
Khorasan.” 
Of course, this “ Husain Baikara, Governor of Khorasan ” cannot 
be meant for Sultan Husain Mirza, son of Mansur, son of Ba’e-kara, son 
of ’Umar Shaikh, son of Amir Timur. Sultan Husain Mirza was, per¬ 
haps, the most illustrious of the dynasty which ruled over Khurasan, 
and during his reign Hirat became the chief seat of learning and the arts. 
This Prince, in the struggle for power, drove the Turk-mans out 
of Astar-abad and its territory and assumed sovereignty over it, but 
his position was precarious on account of the superior power of Sultan 
Abu-Sa’id, Bahadur Klian. then ruling at Hirat. When the latter fell 
into the hands of the Turk-maus, Sultan Husain Mirza made a dash upon 
Hirat, possessed himself of it, and again assumed the sovereignty. 
Mirza Yad-gar, Muhammad, however, with his adherents, and aided 
by the Turk-mans, moved against him, and he had to fly in Ramazan, 
874 H. (1470 A. D.). He soon recovered it again. Having made 
a forced march with a small following from Maimanah, he surprised 
Mirza Yad-gar, Muhammad, asleep in a drunken state, in the Bagh-i- 
Zaghan of Hirat, in Safar, 875 H. (August, 1470 A. D.), and put him 
to death. Sultan Husain Mirza was now without a rival, and he 
reigned uninterruptedly from that time up to the year 911 H. (1506 
A. D.), when the Uzbaks under their Sultan, Shaibani Klian. invaded 
his territory. He was ill at the time ; and on the 16th of Zi-Hijjah 
of that year (May) died at the halting place of Baba Uldi of the well 
known district of Badghais, for centuries the mustering place for armies 
on account of its luxuriant pasturage, and convenient proximity to 
Hirat, but respecting the past history of which almost nothing was 
known to the authorities when the Russians lately seized upon the 
best parts of the province of Hirat, and not much more now, but I 
shall throw some light upon it in the concluding portion of my “ Notes 
on Afghanistan.” 
“ Safawi Dynasty of Persia.” 
With regard to the coins said to be of the Safawi Dynasty of 
Persia, that dynasty finally terminated with Shall Husain in 1135 H. 
(1722 A. D.), for his son, Thamasib, and the latter’s infant son, ’Abbas, 
were but puppets in the hands of Nadir Kuli Beg, the Afshar Turk-man, 
afterwards Nadir Shah. The Safawi dynasty having been subverted 
by the Glialzi Afghans, coins Nos. 207 and 208 are not of the Safawi 
