[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) › 902.7 # The Memoirs of Bābur 902.7 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 902.7 - **Language:** English ### [902.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.902.7) Ḥusain Mīrzā ordered that all prisoners should be beheaded; this not here only but wherever he defeated a rebel son, he ordered the heads of all prisoners to be struck off. And why not? Right was with him. The (rebel) Mīrzās were so given over to vice and social pleasure that even when a general so skilful and experienced as their father was within half-a-day's journey of them, and when before the blessed month of Ramẓān, one night only remained, they busied themselves with wine and pleasure, without fear of their father, without dread of God. Certain it is that those so lost (\_yūtkān\_) will perish and that any hand can deal a blow at those thus going to perdition (\_aūtkān\_). During the several years of Badī\`u'z-zamān Mīrzā's rule in Astarābād, his coterie and his following, his bare (\_yālāng\_) braves even, were in full splendour\[4\] and adornment. He had many gold and silver drinking cups \[Sidenote: Fol. 42.\] and utensils, much silken plenishing and countless tīpūchāq horses. He now lost everything. He hurled himself in his flight down a mountain track, leading to a precipitous fall. He himself got down the fall, with great difficulty, but many of his men perished there.\[331\] - [Previous: 902.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.902.6) - [Next: 902.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.902.8) - [Up: 902](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.902) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.902.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.902.7) · Pramāṇa