[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) › 900.1.4 # The Memoirs of Bābur 900.1.4 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 900.1.4 - **Language:** English ### [900.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.900.1.4) He was a short, stout, sparse-bearded and somewhat ill-shaped person. His manners and his qualities were good, his rules and methods of business excellent; he was well-versed in accounts, not a \_dinār\_ or a \_dirhām\_\[241\] of revenue was spent without his knowledge. The pay of his servants was never disallowed. His assemblies, his gifts, his open table, were all good. Everything of his was orderly and well-arranged;\[242\] no soldier or peasant could deviate in the slightest from any plan of his. Formerly he must have been hard set (\_qātīrār\_) on hawking but latterly he very frequently hunted driven game.\[243\] He carried violence and vice to frantic excess, was a constant wine-bibber and kept many catamites. If anywhere in his territory, there was a handsome boy, he used, by whatever means, to have him brought for a catamite; of his begs' sons and of his sons' begs' sons he made catamites; and laid command for this service on \[Sidenote: Fol. 26.\] his very foster brothers and on their own brothers. So common in his day was that vile practice, that no person was without his catamite; to keep one was thought a merit, not to keep one, a defect. Through his infamous violence and vice, his sons died in the day of their strength (\_tamām juwān\_). - [Previous: 900.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.900.1.3) - [Next: 900.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.900.1.5) - [Up: 900.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.900.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.900.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.900.1.4) · Pramāṇa