[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) › 911.6.2 # The Memoirs of Bābur 911.6.2 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 911.6.2 - **Language:** English ### [911.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.6.2) 172b.\] excellent work in those parts with 70 to 80 men, with so few beating masses and masses of Hazāras and Nikdīrīs; he had not his match for keeping those tribes in order. After a while Zamīn-dāwar was given to him. His son Shāh-i-shujā\` \_Arghūn\_ used to move about with him and even in childhood used to chop away with his sword. The Mīrzā favoured Shāh-i-shujā\` and, somewhat against Ẕū'n-nūn Beg's wishes, joined him with his father in the government of Qandahār. Later on this father and son made dissension between that father and that son,\[1082\] and stirred up much commotion. After I had overcome Khusrau Shāh and parted his retainers from him, and after I had taken Kābul from Ẕū'n-nūn \_Arghūn\_'s son Muqīm, Ẕū'n-nūn Beg and Khusrau Shāh both went, in their helplessness, to see Sl. Ḥusain Mīrzā. Ẕū'n-nūn \_Arghūn\_ grew greater after the Mīrzā's death when they gave him the districts of the Herī Koh-dāman, such as Aūba (Ubeh) and Chachcharān.\[1083\] He was made Lord of Badī\`u'z-zamān Mīrzā's Gate\[1084\] and Muḥammad Barandūq \_Barlās\_ Lord of Muz̤affar-i-ḥusain Mīrzā's, when the two Mīrzās became joint-rulers in Herī. Brave though he was, he was a little crazed and shallow-pated; if he had not been so, would he have accepted flattery as he did? would he have made himself so contemptible? Here are the details of the matter:—While he was so dominant and so trusted in Herī, a few shaikhs and mullās went to him and said, "The Spheres are holding commerce with us; - [Previous: 911.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.6.1) - [Next: 911.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.6.3) - [Up: 911.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.6.2) · Pramāṇa