Repentant, he returned to Káshghar. Dut the Khán was un-
wiling [that he should remain], as shall be shortly explained,


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| u Bo being obliged to quit the country, he withdrew to Hindustán,


where he conducted himself badly. Bábar Pádisháh gave him
Ruhtak, an important town in Hisár-Firuza, where he followed
his uncommendable courses, but shortly afterwards was seized
with dysentery, and died in the course of the year 937, at the age
oftwenty-four. In his youth he had been so spoiled by the Khán,
that his masters could do nothing with him, and his studies came
to naught. [Two couplets]... Yet he was not devoid of natural
talents, for he was a skilled archer and conversed well. At an
early period he was fond of me, and we were such warm friends
that we always used the same tent on journeys, and the same


. dwelling at court. His aunt was with me and my sister with


him, on which account we were always able to associate without
ceremony. 'lhen occurred the affair of my unole; a bitterness
arose between them, and he plotted against the Khán. All my
warnings and reproofs were in vain, and after this our friendship


- . began to cool. When he came back [from his flight into Badakh-


shán] the Khán sent me to order him away again. [On our


meeting, Dábá Sultán] began to make profuse excuses and apologies


and to profess regret that he had turned a deaf ear to my counsel.
