[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) › 903.2.1 # The Memoirs of Bābur 903.2.1 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 903.2.1 - **Language:** English ### [903.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.1) Amongst Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā's buildings inside the town are a College and a monastery (\_Khānqāh\_). The dome of the monastery is very large, few so large are shown in the world. Near these two buildings, he constructed an excellent Hot Bath (\_ḥammām\_) known as the Mīrzā's Bath; he had the pavements in this made of all sorts of stone (? mosaic); such another bath is not known in Khurāsān or in Samarkand.\[374\] \[Sidenote: Fol. 46b.\] Again;—to the south of the College is his mosque, known as the Masjid-i-maqaṯa\` (Carved Mosque) because its ceiling and its walls are all covered with \_islīmī\_\[375\] and Chinese pictures formed of segments of wood.\[376\] There is great discrepancy between the \_qibla\_ of this mosque and that of the College; that of the mosque seems to have been fixed by astronomical observation. Another of Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā's fine buildings is an observatory, that is, an instrument for writing Astronomical Tables.\[377\] This stands three storeys high, on the skirt of the Kohik upland. By its means the Mīrzā worked out the Kūrkānī Tables, now used all over the world. Less work is done with any others. Before these were made, people used the Aīl-khānī Tables, put together at Marāgha, by Khwāja Naṣīr \_Tūsī\_,\[378\] in the time of Hulākū Khān. Hulākū Khān it is, people call \_Aīl-khānī\_.\[379\] - [Previous: 903.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.1.8) - [Next: 903.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.2) - [Up: 903.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.1) · Pramāṇa