[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) › 910.3.6 # The Memoirs of Bābur 910.3.6 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 910.3.6 - **Language:** English ### [910.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.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!" - [Previous: 910.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.3.5) - [Next: 910.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.3.7) - [Up: 910.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.3.6) · Pramāṇa