[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) › 903.1.8 # The Memoirs of Bābur 903.1.8 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 903.1.8 - **Language:** English ### [903.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.1.8) In the citadel,\[363\] Tīmūr Beg erected a very fine building, the great four-storeyed kiosque, known as the Gūk Sarāī.\[364\] In the walled-town, again, near the Iron Gate, he built a Friday Mosque\[365\] of stone (\_sangīn\_); on this worked many stone-cutters, brought from Hindūstān. Round its frontal arch is inscribed in letters large enough to be read two miles away, the Qu'rān verse, \_Wa az yerfa\` Ibrāhīm al Qawā\`id alī akhara\_.\[366\] This also is a very fine building. Again, he laid out two gardens, on the east of the town, one, the more distant, the Bāgh-i-bulandī,\[367\] the other and nearer, the Bāgh-i-dilkushā.\[368\] From Dilkushā to the Turquoise Gate, he planted an Avenue of White Poplar,\[369\] and in the garden itself erected a great kiosque, painted inside \[Sidenote: Fol. 46.\] with pictures of his battles in Hindūstān. He made another garden, known as the Naqsh-i-jahān (World's Picture), on the skirt of Kohik, above the Qarā-sū or, as people also call it, the Āb-i-raḥmat (Water-of-mercy) of Kān-i-gil.\[370\] It had gone to ruin when I saw it, nothing remaining of it except its name. His also are the Bāgh-i-chanār,\[371\] near the walls and below the town on the south,\[372\] also the Bāgh-i-shamāl (North Garden) and the Bāgh-i-bihisht (Garden of Paradise). His own tomb and those of his descendants who have ruled in Samarkand, are in a College, built at the exit (\_chāqār\_) of the walled-town, by Muḥammad Sulṯān Mīrzā, the son of Tīmūr Beg's son, Jahāngīr Mīrzā.\[373\] - [Previous: 903.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.1.7) - [Next: 903.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.1) - [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.903.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.1.8) · Pramāṇa