[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) › 911.9.1 # The Memoirs of Bābur 911.9.1 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 911.9.1 - **Language:** English ### [911.9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.9.1) Yūsuf the wonderful (\_badī\_)\[1152\] was another. He was from the Farghāna country; his odes are said not to be bad. Āhī was another, a good ode-writer, latterly in Ibn-i-ḥusain Mīrzā's service, and \_ṣāḥib-i-dīwān\_.\[1153\] Muḥammad \_Ṣāliḥ\_ was another.\[1154\] His odes are tasty but better-flavoured than correct. There is Turkī verse of his also, not badly written. He went to Shaibāq Khān later on and found complete favour. He wrote a Turkī poem (\_mas̤nawī\_), named from Shaibāq Khān, in the \_raml masaddas majnūn\_ measure, that is to say the metre of the \_Subḥat\_.\[1155\] It is feeble and flat; Muḥammad \_Ṣāliḥ\_'s reader soon ceases to believe in him.\[1156\] Here is one of his good couplets:— A fat man (Taṃbal) has gained the land of Farghāna, Making Farghāna the house of the fat-man (Taṃbal-khāna). Farghāna is known also as Taṃbal-khāna.\[1157\] I do not know whether the above couplet is found in the \_mas̤nawī\_ mentioned. Muḥammad \_Ṣāliḥ\_ was a very wicked, tyrannical and heartless person.\[1158\] Maulānā Shāh Ḥusain \_Kāmī\_\[1159\] was another. There are not-bad verses of his; he wrote odes, and also seems to have put a \_dīwān\_ together. - [Previous: 911.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.8.7) - [Next: 911.9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.9.2) - [Up: 911.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.9.1) · Pramāṇa