The Memoirs of Bābur 899.1.8
The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 899.1.8
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899.1.8
Between Kand-i-badām and Khujand lies the waste known as Hā Darwesh. In this there is always (_hamesha_) wind; from it wind goes always (_hameshā_) to Marghīnān on its east; from it wind comes continually (_dā'im_) to Khujand on its west.[85] It has violent, whirling winds. People say that some darweshes, encountering a whirlwind in this desert,[86] lost one another and kept crying, "Hāy Darwesh! Hāy Darwesh!" till all had perished, and that the waste has been called Hā Darwesh ever since.