[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) › 908.2.7 # The Memoirs of Bābur 908.2.7 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 908.2.7 - **Language:** English ### [908.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.2.7) My standard-bearer had no time to adjust my standard,\[639\] he just mounted with it in his hand. There were ten or fifteen men with me when we started toward the enemy; after riding an arrow's flight, when we came up with his scouts, there may have been ten. Going rapidly forward, we overtook him, poured in arrows on him, over-mastered his foremost men and hurried them off. We followed them for another arrow's flight and came up with his centre where Sl. Aḥmad \_Taṃbal\_ himself was, with as many as \[Sidenote: Fol. 107.\] 100 men. He and another were standing in front of his array, as if keeping a Gate,\[640\] and were shouting, 'Strike, strike!' but his men, mostly, were sidling, as if asking themselves, 'Shall we run away? Shall we not?' By this time three were left with me; one was Nāṣir's Dost, another, Mīrzā Qulī \_Kūkūldāsh\_, the third, Khudāī-bīrdī \_Turkmān's\_ Karīm-dād.\[641\] I shot off the arrow on my thumb,\[642\] aiming at Taṃbal's helm. When I put my hand into my quiver, there came out a quite new \_gosha-gīr\_\[643\] given me by my Younger Khān dādā. It would have been vexing to throw it away but before I got it back into the quiver, there had been time to shoot, maybe, two or three arrows. When once more I had an arrow on the string, I went forward, my three men even holding back. One of those two in advance, Taṃbal seemingly,\[644\] moved forward also. The high-road was between us; - [Previous: 908.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.2.6) - [Next: 908.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.2.8) - [Up: 908.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.2.7) · Pramāṇa