[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) › 903.3.4 # The Memoirs of Bābur 903.3.4 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 903.3.4 - **Language:** English ### [903.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.3.4) We had taken the town after a seven months' hard siege. Things of one sort or other fell to our men when we got in. The whole country, with exception of Samarkand itself, had come in earlier either to me or to Sl. \`Alī Mīrzā and consequently had not been over-run. In any case however, what could have been taken from districts so long subjected to raid and rapine? The booty our men had taken, such as it was, came to an end. When we entered the town, it was in such distress that it needed seed-corn and money-advances; what place was this to take anything from? On these accounts our men suffered great privation. We ourselves could give them nothing. Moreover they yearned for their homes and, by ones and twos, set their faces for flight. The first to go was Bayān Qulī's (son) Khān Qulī; Ibrāhīm \_Begchīk\_ was another; all the Mughūls went off and, a little later, Sl. Aḥmad \_Taṃbal\_. Aūzūn Ḥasan counted himself a very sincere and faithful friend of Khwāja-i-qāẓī; we therefore, to put a stop to these desertions, sent the Khwāja to him (in Andijān) so that they, \[Sidenote: Fol. 51b.\] in agreement, might punish some of the deserters and send others back to us. But that very Aūzūn Ḥasan, that traitor to his salt, may have been the stirrer-up of the whole trouble and the spur-to-evil of the deserters from Samarkand. Directly Sl. Aḥmad \_Taṃbal\_ had gone, all the rest took up a wrong position. (\_d. Andijān demanded of Bābur by The Khān, and also for Jahāngīr Mīrzā.\_) - [Previous: 903.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.3.3) - [Next: 903.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.3.5) - [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.903.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.903.3.4) · Pramāṇa