[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) › 906.3.2 # The Memoirs of Bābur 906.3.2 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 906.3.2 - **Language:** English ### [906.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.2) Into Time's wrong to you quest shall be made (\_sūrūlghūsīdūr\_); Your wish the Sulṯān's grace from Time shall ask (\_qūlghūsīdūr\_); O Ganymede! our cups, ne'er filled as yet, In this new Age, brimmed-up, filled full shall be (\_tūlghūsīdūr\_). Though this winter our affairs were in a very good way and Shaibāq Khān's were on the wane, one or two occurrences were somewhat of a disservice; (1) the Merv men who had taken Qarā-kūl, could not be persuaded to stay there and it went back into the hands of the Aūzbegs; (2) Shaibāq Khān besieged Ibrāhīm Tarkhān's younger brother, Aḥmad in Dabūsī, stormed the place and made a general massacre of its inhabitants before the army we were collecting was ready to march. With 240 proved men I had taken Samarkand; in the next \[Sidenote: Fol. 88.\] five or six months, things so fell out by the favour of the Most High God, that, as will be told, we fought the arrayed battle of Sar-i-pul with a man like Shaibāq Khān. The help those round-about gave us was as follows;—From The Khān had come, with 4 or 5000 Bārīns, Ayūb \_Begchīk\_ and Qashka Maḥmūd; from Jahāngīr Mīrzā had come Khalīl, Taṃbal's younger brother, with 100 or 200 men; not a man had come from Sl. Ḥusain Mīrzā, that experienced ruler, than whom none knew better the deeds and dealings of Shaibāq Khān; none came from Badī\`u'z-zamān Mīrzā; none from Khusrau Shāh because he, the author of what evil done,—as has been told,—to our dynasty! feared us more than he feared Shaibāq Khān. - [Previous: 906.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.1) - [Next: 906.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.3) - [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.906.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.2) · Pramāṇa