XXV. TARDI, Rūda.

He is a native of Transoxiana and is a witty man. He was with Mīrzāyān Ulugh Mīrzā* at the time when the Mīrzās cap­tured the fort of Bahroc, and wrote the following quatrain on the event:—

201 “The Timurides are unequalled in valour,
Victory smiles on them whithersoever they turn,
When they took Bahroc by storm
This chronogram was found for the event, ‘They captured
Bahroc.’”*