[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) › 911.5.5 # The Memoirs of Bābur 911.5.5 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 911.5.5 - **Language:** English ### [911.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.5.5) For as long as verse has been written in the Turkī tongue, no-one has written so much or so well as he. He wrote six books of poems (mas̤nawī), five of them answering to the Quintet (\_Khamsah\_),\[1068\] the sixth, entitled the \_Lisānu'ṯ-ṯair\_ (Tongue of the birds), was in the same metre as the \_Manṯiqu'ṯ-ṯair\_ (Speech of the birds).\[1069\] He put together four \_dīwāns\_ (collections) of odes, bearing the names, \_Curiosities of Childhood\_, \_Marvels of Youth\_, \_Wonders of Manhood\_ and \_Advantages of Age\_.\[1070\] There are good quatrains of his also. Some others of his compositions rank below those \[Sidenote: Fol. 171.\] mentioned; amongst them is a collection of his letters, imitating that of Maulānā \`Abdu'r-raḥmān \_Jāmī\_ and aiming at gathering together every letter on any topic he had ever written to any person. He wrote also the \_Mīzānu'l-aūzān\_ (Measure of measures) on prosody; it is very worthless; he has made mistake in it about the metres of four out of twenty-four quatrains, while about other measures he has made mistake such as any-one who has given attention to prosody, will understand. He put a Persian \_dīwān\_ together also, Fānī (transitory) being his pen-name for Persian verse.\[1071\] Some couplets in it are not bad but for the most part it is flat and poor. In music also he composed good things (\_nīma\_), some excellent airs and preludes (\_nakhsh u peshrau\_). - [Previous: 911.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.5.4) - [Next: 911.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.5.6) - [Up: 911.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.5.5) · Pramāṇa