[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) › 910.3.7 # The Memoirs of Bābur 910.3.7 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 910.3.7 - **Language:** English ### [910.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.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.\_) - [Previous: 910.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.3.6) - [Next: 910.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.3.8) - [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.910.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.3.7) · Pramāṇa