[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) › 912.3.2 # The Memoirs of Bābur 912.3.2 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 912.3.2 - **Language:** English ### [912.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.3.2) Badī\`u'z-zamān Mīrzā, hearing that Muz̤affar M. had entertained me, asked me to a party arranged in the Maqauwī-khāna of the World-adorning Garden. He asked also some of my close circle\[1193\] and some of our braves. Those about me could never drink (openly) on my own account; if they ever did drink, they did it perhaps once in 40 days, with doorstrap fast and under a hundred fears. Such as these were now invited; here too they drank with a hundred precautions, sometimes calling off my attention, sometimes making a screen of their hands, notwithstanding that I had given them permission to follow common custom, because this party was given by one standing to me as a father or elder brother. People brought in weeping-willows....\[1194\] At this party they set a roast goose before me but as I was no carver or disjointer of birds, I left it alone. "Do you not like it?" inquired the Mīrzā. Said I, "I am a poor carver." On this he at once disjointed the bird and set it again before \[Sidenote: Fol. 191.\] me. In such matters he had no match. At the end of the party he gave me an enamelled waist-dagger, a \_chār-qāb\_,\[1195\] and a \_tīpūchāq\_. (\_l. Bābur sees the sights of Herī.\_) Every day of the time I was in Herī I rode out to see a new sight; my guide in these excursions was Yūsuf-i-\`alī Kūkūldāsh; wherever we dismounted, he set food before me. Except Sl. Ḥusain Mīrzā's Almshouse, not one famous spot, maybe, was left unseen in those 40 days. - [Previous: 912.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.3.1) - [Next: 912.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.3.3) - [Up: 912.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.3.2) · Pramāṇa