[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) › 903.2.2 # The Memoirs of Bābur 903.2.2 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 903.2.2 - **Language:** English ### [903.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.2) (\_Author's note.\_) Not more than seven or eight observatories seem to have been constructed in the world. Māmūm Khalīfa\[380\] (Caliph) made one with which the \_Mamūmī\_ Tables were written. Batalmūs (Ptolemy) constructed another. Another was made, in Hindūstān, in the time of Rājā Vikramāditya \_Hīndū\_, in Ujjain and Dhar, that is, the Mālwa country, now known as Māndū. The Hindūs of Hindūstān use the Tables of this Observatory. They were put together 1,584 years ago.\[381\] \[Sidenote: Fol. 47.\] Compared with others, they are somewhat defective. Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā again, made the garden known as the Bāgh-i-maidān (Garden of the Plain), on the skirt of the Kohik upland. In the middle of it he erected a fine building they call Chihil Sitūn (Forty Pillars). On both storeys are pillars, all of stone (\_tāshdīn\_).\[382\] Four turrets, like minarets, stand on its four corner-towers, the way up into them being through the towers. Everywhere there are stone pillars, some fluted, some twisted, some many-sided. On the four sides of the upper storey are open galleries enclosing a four-doored hall (\_chār-dara\_); their pillars also are all of stone. The raised floor of the building is all paved with stone. - [Previous: 903.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.1) - [Next: 903.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.3) - [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.903.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.2) · Pramāṇa