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# The Memoirs of Bābur 913.1.4

The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 913.1.4

- **Language:** English

### [913.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.913.1.4)

Marching from Khwāja Ismā\`īl, we dismounted once more at Aūlābā-tū. Some of the begs and of my own household were ordered to go forward and carefully separate off the Fifth (\_Khums\_) of the enemy's spoils. By way of favour, we did not \[Sidenote: Fol. 204.\] take the Fifth from Qāsim Beg and some others.\[1255\] From what was written down,\[1256\] the Fifth came out at 16,000, that is to say, this 16,000 was the fifth of 80,000 sheep; no question however but that with those lost and those not asked for, a \_lak\_ (100,000) of sheep had been taken. (\_b. A hunting-circle.\_)

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