The Memoirs of Bābur 908.2.4

908.2.4

[Sidenote: Fol. 105b.] (_Author's note on pass-words._) Pass-words are of two kinds;—in each tribe there is one for use in the tribe, such as _Darwāna_ or _Tūqqāī_ or _Lūlū_;[634] and there is one for the use of the whole army. For a battle, two words are settled on as pass-words so that of two men meeting in the fight, one may give the one, the other give back the second, in order to distinguish friends from foes, own men from strangers. (_e. Bābur again attempts Andijān._) Through the return to me of the forts and the highland and lowland clans, Taṃbal and his adherents lost heart and footing. His army and people in the next five or six days began to desert him and to flee to retired places and the open country.[636] Of his household some came and said, 'His affairs are nearly ruined; he will break up in three or four days, utterly ruined.' On hearing this, we rode for Andijān.