[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) › 903.2.3 # The Memoirs of Bābur 903.2.3 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 903.2.3 - **Language:** English ### [903.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.3) He made a smaller garden, out beyond Chihil Sitūn and towards Kohik, also having a building in it. In the open gallery of this building he placed a great stone throne, some 14 or 15 yards (\_qārī\_) long, some 8 yards wide and perhaps 1 yard high. They brought a stone so large by a very long road.\[383\] There is a crack in the middle of it which people say must have come after it was brought here. In the same \[Sidenote: Fol. 47b.\] garden he also built a four-doored hall, know as the Chīnī-khāna (Porcelain House) because its \_īzāra\_\[384\] are all of porcelain; he sent to China for the porcelain used in it. Inside the walls again, is an old building of his, known as the Masjid-i-laqlaqa (Mosque of the Echo). If anyone stamps on the ground under the middle of the dome of this mosque, the sound echoes back from the whole dome; it is a curious matter of which none know the secret. In the time also of Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā the great and lesser begs laid out many gardens, large and small.\[385\] For beauty, and air, and view, few will have equalled Darwesh Muḥammad Tarkhān's Chār-bāgh (Four Gardens).\[386\] It lies overlooking the whole of Qulba Meadow, on the slope below the Bāgh-i-maidān. Moreover it is arranged symmetrically, terrace above terrace, and is planted with beautiful \_nārwān\_\[387\] and cypresses and white poplar. A most agreeable sojourning place, its one defect is the want of a large stream. - [Previous: 903.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.2) - [Next: 903.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.4) - [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.903.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.3) · Pramāṇa