[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) › 907.2.2 # The Memoirs of Bābur 907.2.2 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 907.2.2 - **Language:** English ### [907.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.2.2) 99.\] ten days. The chronogram of his death was found in \_Nuyān is dead\_.\[593\] With the heats came the news that Shaibāq Khān was coming up into Aūrā-tīpā. Hereupon, as the land is level about Dikh-kat, we crossed the Āb-burdan pass into the Macha hill-country.\[594\] Āb-burdan is the last village of Macha; just below it a spring sends its water down (to the Zar-afshān); above the stream is included in Macha, below it depends on Palghar. There is a tomb at the spring-head. I had a rock at the side of the spring-head shaped (\_qātīrīb\_) and these three couplets inscribed on it;— I have heard that Jamshīd, the magnificent, Inscribed on a rock at a fountain-head\[595\] 'Many men like us have taken breath at this fountain, And have passed away in the twinkling of an eye; We took the world by courage and might, But we took it not with us to the tomb.' There is a custom in that hill-country of cutting verses and things\[596\] on the rocks. While we were in Macha, Mullā Hijrī,\[597\] the poet, came from Ḥiṣār and waited on me. At that time I composed the following opening lines;— Let your portrait flatter you never so much, than it you are more (\_āndīn artūqsīn\_); Men call you their Life (\_Jān\_), than Life, without doubt, you are more (\_jāndīn artūqsīn\_).\[598\] - [Previous: 907.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.2.1) - [Next: 907.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.2.3) - [Up: 907.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.2.2) · Pramāṇa