[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) › 906.2.6 # The Memoirs of Bābur 906.2.6 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 906.2.6 - **Language:** English ### [906.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.2.6) Fifthly;—I had come once already; my opponent was on his guard about me. The second time we came, God brought it right! Samarkand was won. In saying these things there is no desire to be-little the reputation of any man; the facts were as here stated. In \[Sidenote: Fol. 86.\] writing these things, there is no desire to magnify myself; the truth is set down. The poets composed chronograms on the victory; this one remains in my memory;—Wisdom answered, 'Know that its date is the \_Victory\_ (\_Fatḥ\_) \_of Bābur Bahādur\_.' Samarkand being taken, Shavdār and Soghd and the \_tūmāns\_ and nearer forts began, one after another, to return to us. From some their Aūzbeg commandants fled in fear and escaped; from others the inhabitants drove them and came in to us; in some they made them prisoner, and held the forts for us. Just then the wives and families of Shaibāq Khān and his Aūzbegs arrived from Turkistān;\[549\] he was lying near Khwāja Dīdār and \`Alī-ābād but when he saw the forts and people returning to me, marched off towards Bukhārā. By God's grace, all the forts of Soghd and Miyān-kāl returned to me within three or four months. Over and above this, Bāqī Tarkhān seized this opportunity to occupy Qarshī; Khuzār and Qarshī (? Kesh) both went out of Aūzbeg hands; Qarā-kūl \[Sidenote: Fol. 86b.\] also was taken from them by people of Abū'l-muḥsin Mīrzā (\_Bāī-qarā\_), coming up from Merv. My affairs were in a very good way. (\_e. Birth of Bābur's first child.\_) - [Previous: 906.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.2.5) - [Next: 906.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.2.7) - [Up: 906.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.2.6) · Pramāṇa