[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) › 912.1.4 # The Memoirs of Bābur 912.1.4 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 912.1.4 - **Language:** English ### [912.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.1.4) We lay a few days in the meadow of Ṣāf-hill, waiting for news of Jahāngīr Mīrzā and the clans (\_aīmāq\_) to whom persons had been sent. We hunted once, those hills being very full of wild sheep and goats (\_kiyīk\_). All the clans came in and waited on me within a few days; it was to me they came; they had not gone to Jahāngīr Mīrzā though he had sent men often enough to them, once sending even \`Imādu'd-dīn Mas\`ūd. He himself was forced to come at last; he saw me at the foot of the valley when I came down off Ṣāf-hill. Being anxious about Khurāsān, we neither paid him attention nor took thought for the clans, but went right on through Gurzwān, Almār, Qaiṣār, Chīchīk-tū, and Fakhru'd-dīn's-death (\_aūlūm\_) into the Bām-valley, \[Sidenote: Fol. 185.\] one of the dependencies of Bādghīs. The world being full of divisions,\[1176\] things were being taken from country and people with the long arm; we ourselves began to take something, by laying an impost on the Turks and clans of those parts, in two or three months taking perhaps 300 \_tūmāns\_ of \_kipkī\_.\[1177\] (\_d. Coalition of the Khurāsān Mīrzās.\_) A few days before our arrival (in Bām-valley?) some of the Khurāsān light troops and of Ẕū'n-nūn Beg's men had well beaten Aūzbeg raiders in Pand-dih (Panj-dih?) and Marūchāq, killing a mass of men.\[1178\] - [Previous: 912.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.1.3) - [Next: 912.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.1.5) - [Up: 912.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.1.4) · Pramāṇa