[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) › 910.4.3 # The Memoirs of Bābur 910.4.3 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 910.4.3 - **Language:** English ### [910.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.4.3) The Hindū-kush mountains, which separate Kābul from Balkh, Qūndūz and Badakhshān, are crossed by seven roads.\[749\] Three of these lead out of Panjhīr (Panj-sher), \_viz.\_ Khawāk, the uppermost, T̤ūl, the next lower, and Bāzārak.\[750\] Of the passes on them, the one on the T̤ūl road is the best, but the road itself is rather \[Sidenote: Fol. 130b.\] the longest whence, seemingly, it is called T̤ūl. Bāzārak is the most direct; like T̤ūl, it leads over into Sar-i-āb; as it passes through Pārandī, local people call its main pass, the Pārandī. Another road leads up through Parwān; it has seven minor passes, known as Haft-bacha (Seven-younglings), between Parwān and its main pass (Bāj-gāh). It is joined at its main pass by two roads from Andar-āb, which go on to Parwān by it. This is a road full of difficulties. Out of Ghūr-bund, again, three roads lead over. The one next to Parwān, known as the Yāngī-yūl pass (New-road), goes through Wālīān to Khinjan; next above this is the Qīpchāq road, crossing to where the water of Andar-āb meets the Sūrkh-āb (Qīzīl-sū); this also is an excellent road; and the third leads over the Shibr-tū pass;\[751\] those crossing by this in the heats take their way by Bāmīān and Saighān, but those crossing by it in winter, go on by Āb-dara (Water-valley).\[752\] Shibr-tū excepted, all the Hindū-kush roads are closed for three or four months in winter,\[753\] because no road through a valley-bottom is passable when the waters are high. - [Previous: 910.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.4.2) - [Next: 910.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.4.4) - [Up: 910.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.4.3) · Pramāṇa