The Memoirs of Bābur 910.3.6

910.3.6

The Kābul district itself is of small extent, has its greatest length from east to west, and is girt round by mountains. Its walled-town connects with one of these, rather a low one known as Shāh-of-Kābul because at some time a (Hindū) Shāh of Kābul built a residence on its summit.[723] Shāh-of-Kābul begins at the Dūrrīn narrows and ends at those of Dih-i-yaq`ūb[724]; it may be 4 miles (2 _shar`ī_) round; its skirt is covered with gardens fertilized from a canal which was brought along the hill-slope in the time of my paternal uncle, Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā by his guardian, Wais Atāka.[725] The water of this canal comes to an end in a retired corner, a quarter known as Kul-kīna[726] where much debauchery has gone on. About this place it [Sidenote: Fol. 128b.] sometimes used to be said, in jesting parody of Khwāja Ḥāfiẓ[727],—"Ah! the happy, thoughtless time when, with our names in ill-repute, we lived days of days at Kul-kīna!"