[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) › 910.2.3 # The Memoirs of Bābur 910.2.3 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 910.2.3 - **Language:** English ### [910.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.2.3) After sitting a \_garī\_ or two, I mounted and rode back to camp, he for his part returning to his halting-place. On that day his begs, with their servants, great and small, good and bad, and tribe after tribe began to desert him and come, with their families, to me. Between the two Prayers of the next afternoon not a man remained in his presence. "Say,—O God! who possessest the kingdom! Thou givest it to whom Thou wilt and Thou takest it from whom Thou wilt! In Thy hand is good, for Thou art almighty."\[693\] Wonderful is His power! This man, once master of 20 or 30,000 retainers, once owning Sl. Maḥmūd's dominions from Qaḥlūgha,—known also as the Iron-gate,—to the range of \[Sidenote: Fol. 124b.\] Hindū-kush, whose old mannikin of a tax-gatherer, Ḥasan \_Barlās\_ by name, had made us march, had made us halt, with all the tax-gatherer's roughness, from Aīlāk to Aūbāj,\[694\] that man He so abased and so bereft of power that, with no blow struck, no sound made, he stood, without command over servants, goods, or life, in the presence of a band of 200 or 300 men, defeated and destitute as we were. - [Previous: 910.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.2.2) - [Next: 910.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.2.4) - [Up: 910.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.2.3) · Pramāṇa