The Memoirs of Bābur 910.3.7

910.3.7

East of Shāh-of-Kabūl and south of the walled-town lies a large pool[728] about a 2 miles [_shar`ī_] round. From the town side of the mountain three smallish springs issue, two near Kul-kīna; Khwāja Shamū's[729] tomb is at the head of one; Khwāja Khiẓr's Qadam-gāh[730] at the head of another, and the third is at a place known as Khwāja Raushānāī, over against Khwāja `Abdu'ṣ-ṣamad. On a detached rock of a spur of Shāh-of-Kābul, known as `Uqābain,[731] stands the citadel of Kābul with the great walled-town at its north end, lying high in excellent air, and overlooking the large pool already mentioned, and also three meadows, namely, Siyāh-sang (Black-rock), Sūng-qūrghān (Fort-back), and Chālāk (Highwayman?),—a most beautiful outlook when the meadows are green. The north-wind does not fail Kābul in the heats; people call it the Parwān-wind[732]; it makes a delightful temperature in the windowed houses on the northern part of the citadel. In praise of the citadel of Kābul, Mullā Muḥammad _T̤ālib Mu`ammāī_ (the Riddler)[733] [Sidenote: Fol. 129.] used to recite this couplet, composed on Badī`u'z-zamān Mīrzā's name:— Drink wine in the castle of Kābul and send the cup round without pause; For Kābul is mountain, is river, is city, is lowland in one.[734] (_b. Kābul as a trading-town._)