[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) › 912.2.1 # The Memoirs of Bābur 912.2.1 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 912.2.1 - **Language:** English ### [912.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.2.1) Although this was not a social gathering, cooked viands were brought in, drinkables\[1184\] were set with the food, and near them gold and silver cups. Our forefathers through a long space of time, had respected the Chīngīz-tūrā (ordinance), doing nothing opposed to it, whether in assembly or Court, in sittings-down or risings-up. Though it has not Divine authority so that a man obeys it of necessity, still good rules of conduct must be obeyed by whom-soever they are left; just in the same way that, if a forefather have done ill, his ill must be changed for good. After the meal I rode from the Mīrzā's camp some 2 miles to \[Sidenote: Fol. 187.\] our own dismounting-place. (\_f. Bābur claims due respect.\_) At my second visit Badī\`u'z-zamān Mīrzā shewed me less respect than at my first. I therefore had it said to Muḥ. Barandūq Beg and to Ẕū'n-nūn Beg that, small though my age was (\_aet.\_ 24), my place of honour was large; that I had seated myself twice on the throne of our forefathers in Samarkand by blow straight-dealt; and that to be laggard in shewing me respect was unreasonable, since it was for this (Tīmūrid) dynasty's sake I had thus fought and striven with that alien foe. This said, and as it was reasonable, they admitted their mistake at once and shewed the respect claimed. (\_g. Bābur's temperance.\_) - [Previous: 912.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.1.7) - [Next: 912.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.2.2) - [Up: 912.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.2.1) · Pramāṇa