[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) › 910.9.2 # The Memoirs of Bābur 910.9.2 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 910.9.2 - **Language:** English ### [910.9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.9.2) Marching out of Kohāt, we took the Hangū-road for Bangash. \[Sidenote: Fol. 147.\] Between Kohāt and Hangū that road runs through a valley shut in on either hand by the mountains. When we entered this valley, the Afghāns of Kohāt and thereabouts who were gathered on both hill-skirts, raised their war-cry with great clamour. Our then guide, Malik Bū-sa\`īd \_Kamarī\_ was well-acquainted with the Afghān locations; he represented that further on there was a detached hill on our right, where, if the Afghāns came down to it from the hill-skirt, we might surround and take them. God brought it right! The Afghāns, on reaching the place, did come down. We ordered one party of braves to seize the neck of land between that hill and the mountains, others to move along its sides, so that under attack made from all sides at once, the Afghāns might be made to reach their doom. Against the allround assault, they could not even fight; a hundred or two were taken, some were brought in alive but of most, the heads only were brought. We had been told that when Afghāns are powerless to resist, they go before their foe with grass between their teeth, this being as much as to say, "I am your cow."\[892\] Here \[Sidenote: Fol. 147b.\] we saw this custom; Afghāns unable to make resistance, came before us with grass between their teeth. Those our men had brought in as prisoners were ordered to be beheaded and a pillar of their heads was set up in our camp.\[893\] - [Previous: 910.9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.9.1) - [Next: 910.9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.9.3) - [Up: 910.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.910.9.2) · Pramāṇa