[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) › 910.3.8 # The Memoirs of Bābur 910.3.8 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 910.3.8 - **Language:** English ### [910.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.3.8) Just as \`Arabs call every place outside \`Arab (Arabia), \`Ajam, so Hindūstānīs call every place outside Hindūstān, Khurāsān. There are two trade-marts on the land-route between Hindūstān and Khurāsān; one is Kābul, the other, Qandahār. To Kābul caravans come from Kāshghar,\[735\] Farghāna,Turkistān, Samarkand, Bukhārā, Balkh, Ḥiṣār and Badakhshān. To Qandahār they come from Khurāsān. Kābul is an excellent trading-centre; if merchants went to Khīta or to Rūm,\[736\] they might make no higher profit. Down to Kābul every year come 7, 8, or 10,000 horses and up to it, from Hindūstān, come every year caravans of 10, 15 or 20,000 heads-of-houses, bringing slaves (\_barda\_), white cloth, sugar-candy, refined and common sugars, and aromatic roots. Many a trader is not content with a profit of 30 or 40 on 10.\[737\] In Kābul can be had the products of Khurāsān, Rūm, \`Irāq and Chīn (China); while it is Hindūstān's own market. (\_c. Products and climate of Kābul.\_) In the country of Kābul, there are hot and cold districts close to one another. In one day, a man may go out of the town of Kābul to where snow never falls, or he may go, in two sidereal \[Sidenote: Fol. 129b.\] hours, to where it never thaws, unless when the heats are such that it cannot possibly lie. - [Previous: 910.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.3.7) - [Next: 910.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.4.1) - [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.910.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.3.8) · Pramāṇa