[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) › 907.1.7 # The Memoirs of Bābur 907.1.7 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 907.1.7 - **Language:** English ### [907.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.1.7) Dikh-kat is in the Aūrā-tīpā hill-tracts, below the range on the other side of which is the Macha\[584\] country. Its people, though Sārt, settled in a village, are, like Turks, herdsmen and shepherds. Their sheep are reckoned at 40,000. We dismounted at the houses of the peasants in the village; I stayed in a head-man's house. He was old, 70 or 80, but his mother was still alive. She was a woman on whom much life had been bestowed for she was 111 years old. Some relation of hers may have gone, (as was said), with Tīmūr Beg's army to Hindūstān;\[585\] she had this in her mind and used to tell the tale. In Dikh-kat alone were 96 of her descendants, hers and her grandchildren, great-grandchildren and grandchildren's grandchildren. Counting in the dead, 200 of her descendants were reckoned up. Her grandchild's grandson was a strong young man of 25 or 26, with full black beard. While in Dikh-kat, I constantly made excursions amongst the mountains round \[Sidenote: Fol. 97b.\] about. Generally I went bare-foot and, from doing this so much, my feet became so that rock and stone made no difference to them.\[586\] Once in one of these wanderings, a cow was seen, between the Afternoon and Evening prayers, going down by a narrow, ill-defined road. Said I, 'I wonder which way that road will be going; keep your eye on that cow; don't lose the cow till you know where the road comes out.' Khwāja Asadu'l-lāh made his joke, 'If the cow loses her way,' he said, 'what becomes of us?' - [Previous: 907.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.1.6) - [Next: 907.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.1.8) - [Up: 907.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.1.7) · Pramāṇa