[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) › 912.6.7 # The Memoirs of Bābur 912.6.7 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 912.6.7 - **Language:** English ### [912.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.6.7) Beaten and stripped bare, he and his close circle took the road through Ishkīmīsh and Nārīn to Kīlā-gāhī, from there followed the Qīzīl-sū up, got out on the Āb-dara road, crossed at Shibr-tū, and so came to Kābul, he with 70 or 80 followers, worn-out, naked and famished. That was a marvellous sign of the Divine might! Two or three years earlier the Mīrzā had left the Kābul country like a \[Sidenote: Fol. 203.\] foe, driving tribes and hordes like sheep before him, reached Badakhshān and made fast its forts and valley-strongholds. With what fancy in his mind had he marched out?\[1245\] Now he was back, hanging the head of shame for those earlier misdeeds, humbled and distraught about that breach with me! My face shewed him no sort of displeasure; I made kind enquiry about himself, and brought him out of his confusion. - [Previous: 912.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.6.6) - [Next: 913.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.913.1.1) - [Up: 912.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.912.6.7) · Pramāṇa