The Memoirs of Bābur 900.1.3
The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 900.1.3
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900.1.3
This year I began to abstain from all doubtful food, my obedience extended even to the knife, the spoon and the table-cloth;[239] also the after-midnight Prayer (_taḥajjud_) was [Sidenote: Fol. 25b.] less neglected. (_a. Death of Sl. Maḥmūd Mīrzā._) In the month of the latter Rabī` (January 1495 AD.), Sl. Maḥmūd Mīrzā was confronted by violent illness and in six days, passed from the world. He was 43 (lunar) years old. _b. His birth and lineage._ He was born in 857 AH. (1453 AD.), was Sl. Abū-sa`īd Mīrzā's third son and the full-brother of Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā.[240] _c. His appearance and characteristics._