[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) › 908.4.4 # The Memoirs of Bābur 908.4.4 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 908.4.4 - **Language:** English ### [908.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.4.4) I had posted a party of braves there and gone on when a large body of the enemy, mounted and on foot, bore down upon them, drove them from their post and forced them into a narrow lane. Just then I came up (the lane), gallopped my horse at them, and scattered them in flight. While I was thus driving them out from the lane into the flat, and had got my sword to work, they shot my horse in the leg; it stumbled and threw me there amongst them. I got up quickly and shot one arrow off. My squire, Kahil (lazy) had a weakly pony; he got off and led it to me. Mounting this, I started for another lane-head. Sl. Muḥ. Wais noticed the weakness of my mount, dismounted and led me his own. I mounted that horse. Just then, Qāsim Beg's son, Qaṃbar-\`alī came, wounded, from Jahāngīr Mīrzā and said the Mīrzā had \[Sidenote: Fol. 112b.\] been attacked some time before, driven off in panic, and had gone right away. We were thunderstruck! At the same moment arrived Sayyid Qāsim, the commandant of Pāp! His was a most unseasonable visit, since at such a crisis it was well to have such a strong fort in our hands. Said I to Ibrāhīm Beg, 'What's to be done now?' He was slightly wounded; whether because of this or because of stupefaction, he could give no useful answer. My idea was to get across the bridge, destroy it and make for Andijān. Bābā Sher-zād did very well here. 'We will storm out at the gate and get away at once,' he said. At his word, we set off for the Gate. - [Previous: 908.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.4.3) - [Next: 908.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.4.5) - [Up: 908.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.908.4.4) · Pramāṇa