[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) › 907.2.4 # The Memoirs of Bābur 907.2.4 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 907.2.4 - **Language:** English ### [907.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.2.4) I had written a quatrain in an ordinary measure but was in some doubt about it, because at that time I had not studied \[Sidenote: Fol. 100.\] poetic idiom so much as I have now done. The Khān was good-natured and also he wrote verses, though ones somewhat deficient in the requisites for odes. I presented my quatrain and I laid my doubts before him but got no reply so clear as to remove them. His study of poetic idiom appeared to have been somewhat scant. Here is the verse;— One hears no man recall another in trouble (\_miḥnat-ta kīshī\_); None speak of a man as glad in his exile (\_ghurbat-ta kīshī\_); My own heart has no joy in this exile; Called glad is no exile, man though he be (\_albatta kīshī\_). Later on I came to know that in Turkī verse, for the purpose of rhyme, \_ta\_ and \_da\_ are interchangeable and also \_ghain\_, \_qāf\_ and \_kāf\_.\[601\] (\_g. The acclaiming of the standards.\_) - [Previous: 907.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.2.3) - [Next: 907.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.2.5) - [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.907.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.2.4) · Pramāṇa