The Memoirs of Bābur 912.4.2
The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 912.4.2
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912.4.2
That night the snow fell in such an amazing blizzard of cutting wind that every man feared for his life. The storm had become extremely violent by the time we reached the _khawāl_, as people in those parts call a mountain-cave (_ghar_) or hollow (_khāwāk_). We dismounted at its mouth. Deep snow! a one-man road! and even on that stamped-down and trampled road, pitfalls for horses! the days at their shortest! The first arrivals reached the cave by daylight; others kept coming in from the Evening Prayer till the Bed-time one; later than that people dismounted wherever they happened to be; dawn shot with many still in the saddle.