[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) › 906.3.3 # The Memoirs of Bābur 906.3.3 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 906.3.3 - **Language:** English ### [906.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.3) (\_g. Bābur defeated at Sar-i-pul.\_) I marched out of Samarkand, with the wish of fighting Shaibāq Khān, in the month of Shawwāl\[553\] and went to the New-garden where we lay four or five days for the convenience of gathering our men and completing our equipment. We took the precaution of fortifying our camp with ditch and branch. From the New-garden we advanced, march by march, to beyond Sar-i-pul (Bridge-head) and there dismounted. \[Sidenote: Fol. 88b.\] Shaibāq Khān came from the opposite direction and dismounted at Khwāja Kārdzan, perhaps one \_yīghāch\_ away (? 5 m.). We lay there for four or five days. Every day our people went from our side and his came from theirs and fell on one another. One day when they were in unusual force, there was much fighting but neither side had the advantage. Out of that engagement one of our men went rather hastily back into the entrenchments; he was using a standard; some said it was Sayyidī Qarā Beg's standard who really was a man of strong words but weak sword. Shaibāq Khān made one night-attack on us but could do nothing because the camp was protected by ditch and close-set branches. His men raised their war-cry, rained in arrows from outside the ditch and then retired. - [Previous: 906.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.2) - [Next: 906.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.4) - [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.906.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.3.3) · Pramāṇa