[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) › 903.1.3 # The Memoirs of Bābur 903.1.3 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 903.1.3 - **Language:** English ### [903.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.1.3) The Sun entered the Balance and cold descended on us.\[343\] I therefore summoned the begs admitted to counsel and it was decided, after discussion, that although the towns-people were so enfeebled that, by God's grace, we should take Samarkand, it might be to-day, it might be to-morrow, still, rather than suffer from cold in the open, we ought to rise from near it and go for winter-quarters into some fort, and that, even if we had to leave those quarters later on, this would be done without further trouble. As Khwāja Dīdār seemed a suitable fort, we marched there and having dismounted in the meadow lying before it, went in, fixed on sites for the winter-houses and covered shelters,\[344\] left overseers and inspectors of the work and returned to our camp in the meadow. There we lay during the few days before the winter-houses were finished. - [Previous: 903.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.1.2) - [Next: 903.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.1.4) - [Up: 903.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.1.3) · Pramāṇa