[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) › 903.3.1 # The Memoirs of Bābur 903.3.1 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 903.3.1 - **Language:** English ### [903.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.3.1) Samarkand has good \_tūmāns\_. One is Soghd with its dependencies. Its head Yār-yīlāq, its foot Bukhārā, there may be not one single \_yīghāch\_ of earth without its village and its cultivated lands. So famous is it that the saying attributed to Tīmūr Beg, 'I have a garden 30 \_yīghāch\_ long,\[408\] must have been spoken of Soghd. Another \_tūmān\_ is Shāvdār (var. Shādwār), an excellent one adjoining the town-suburbs. On one side it has the range (Aītmāk Dābān), lying between Samarkand and \[Sidenote: Fol. 50.\] Shahr-i-sabz, on the skirts of which are many of its villages. On the other side is the Kohik Water (\_i.e.\_ the Dar-i-gham canal). There it lies! an excellent \_tūmān\_, with fine air, full of beauty, abounding in waters, its good things cheap. Observers of Egypt and Syria have not pointed out its match. Though Samarkand has other \_tūmāns\_, none rank with those enumerated; with so much, enough has been said. Tīmūr Beg gave the government of Samarkand to his eldest son, Jahāngīr Mīrzā (in 776 AH.-1375 AD.); when Jahāngīr Mīrzā died (805 AH.-1403 AD.), he gave it to the Mīrzā's eldest son, Muḥammad Sulṯān-i-jahāngīr; when Muḥammad Sulṯān Mīrzā died, it went to Shāh-rukh Mīrzā, Tīmūr Beg's youngest son. Shāh-rukh Mīrzā gave the whole of Mā warā'u'n-nahr (in 872 AH.-1467 AD.) to his eldest son, Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā. From him his own son, \`Abdu'l-laṯīf Mīrzā took it, (853 AH.-1449 AD.), for the sake of this five days' fleeting world martyring a father so full of years and knowledge. - [Previous: 903.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.2.8) - [Next: 903.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.3.2) - [Up: 903.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.3.1) · Pramāṇa