[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) › 910.6.6 # The Memoirs of Bābur 910.6.6 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 910.6.6 - **Language:** English ### [910.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.6.6) One of the eminent men of Ghaznī was Mullā \`Abdu'r-raḥmān, a learned man and always a learner (\_dars\_), a most orthodox, pious and virtuous person; he left this world the same year as Nāṣir Mīrzā (921 AH.-1515 AD.). Sl. Maḥmūd's tomb is in the suburb called Rauẓa,\[826\] from which the best grapes come; there also are the tombs of his descendants, Sl. Mas\`ūd and Sl. Ibrāhīm. Ghaznī has many blessed tombs. The year\[827\] I took Kābul and Ghaznī, over-ran Kohāt, the plain of Bannū and lands of the Afghāns, and went on to Ghaznī by way of Dūkī (Dūgī) and Āb-istāda, people told me there was a tomb, in a village of Ghaznī, which moved when a benediction on the Prophet was \[Sidenote: Fol. 138b.\] pronounced over it. We went to see it. In the end I discovered that the movement was a trick, presumably of the servants at the tomb, who had put a sort of platform above it which moved when pushed, so that, to those on it, the tomb seemed to move, just as the shore does to those passing in a boat. I ordered the scaffold destroyed and a dome built over the tomb; also I forbad the servants, with threats, ever to bring about the movement again. - [Previous: 910.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.6.5) - [Next: 910.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.6.7) - [Up: 910.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.6.6) · Pramāṇa