The Memoirs of Bābur 911.3.7
The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 911.3.7
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(_e._) _His children._ Fourteen sons and eleven daughters were born to him.[1013] The oldest of all his children was Badī`u'z-zamān Mīrzā; (Bega Begīm) a daughter of Sl. Sanjar of Marv, was his mother. Shāh-i-gharīb Mīrzā was another; he had a stoop (_būkūrī_); though ill to the eye, he was of good character; though weak of body, he was powerful of pen. He even put a _dīwān_ together, using Gharbatī (Lowliness) for his pen-name and writing both Turkī and Persian verse. Here is a couplet of his:—