[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) › 906.3.1 # The Memoirs of Bābur 906.3.1 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 906.3.1 - **Language:** English ### [906.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.1) No grain (\_ghala\_) have I by which I can be fed (\_noshīd\_); No rhyme of grain (\_mallah\_, nankeen) wherewith I can be clad (\_poshīd\_); The man who lacks both food and clothes, In art or science where can he compete (\_koshīd\_)? In those days of respite, I had written one or two couplets but had not completed an ode. As an answer to Mullā Binā'ī I made up and set this poor little Turkī quatrain;—\[552\] As is the wish of your heart, so shall it be (\_būlghūsīdūr\_); For gift and stipend both an order shall be made (\_buyurūlghūsīdūr\_); I know the grain and its rhyme you write of; The garments, you, your house, the corn shall fill (\_tūlghūsīdūr\_). The Mullā in return wrote and presented a quatrain to me in \[Sidenote: Fol. 87b.\] which for his refrain, he took a rhyme to (the \_tūlghūsīdūr\_ of) my last line and chose another rhyme;— Mīrzā-of-mine, the Lord of sea and land shall be (\_yīr būlghūsīdūr\_); His art and skill, world o'er, the evening tale shall be (\_samar būlghūsīdūr\_); If gifts like these reward one rhyming (\_or\_ pointless) word; For words of sense, what guerdon will there be (\_nilār būlghūsīdūr\_)? Abū'l-barka, known as \_Farāqi\_ (Parted), who just then had come to Samarkand from Shahr-i-sabz, said Binā'ī ought to have rhymed. He made this verse;— - [Previous: 906.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.2.8) - [Next: 906.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.2) - [Up: 906.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.1) · Pramāṇa