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# The Memoirs of Bābur 911.3.7

The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 911.3.7

- **Language:** English

### [911.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.3.7)

(\_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:—

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