[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Bābur (1526–1530)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur) › [Bāburnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama) › [The Babur-nama in English (A. S. Beveridge)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge) › 899.1.7 # The Memoirs of Bābur 899.1.7 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 899.1.7 - **Language:** English ### [899.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.899.1.7) Again there is Khujand,\[75\] twenty-five \_yīghāch\_ by road to the west of Andijān and twenty-five \_yīghāch\_ east of Samarkand.\[76\] Khujand is one of the ancient towns; of it were Shaikh Maṣlaḥat and Khwāja Kamāl.\[77\] Fruit grows well there; its pomegranates are renowned for their excellence; people talk of a Khujand pomegranate as they do of a Samarkand apple; just now however, Marghīnān pomegranates are much met with.\[78\] The walled town (\_qūrghān\_) of Khujand stands on high ground; the Saiḥūn River flows past it on the north at the distance, may be, of an arrow's flight.\[79\] To the north of both the town and the river lies a mountain range called Munūghul;\[80\] people say there are turquoise and other mines in it and there are many snakes. The hunting and fowling-grounds of Khujand are first-rate; \_āq kīyīk\_,\[81\] \_būghū-marāl\_,\[82\] pheasant and hare are all had in great plenty. The climate is very malarious; in autumn there is much fever;\[83\] people rumour it about that the very sparrows get fever and say that the cause of the malaria is the mountain range on the north (\_i.e.\_ Munūghul). Kand-i-badām (Village of the Almond) is a dependency of Khujand; though it is not a township (\_qaṣba\_) it is rather a good approach to one (\_qaṣbacha\_). Its almonds are excellent, hence its name; they all go to Hormuz or to Hindūstān. It is five or \[Sidenote: Fol. 4b.\] six \_yīghāch\_\[84\] east of Khujand. - [Previous: 899.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.899.1.6) - [Next: 899.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.899.1.8) - [Up: 899.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.899.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.899.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.899.1.7) · Pramāṇa