The Memoirs of Bābur 913.3.2

913.3.2

(_Author's note on his terminology._) [Sidenote: Fol. 209b.] Although _barānghār_, _aūng qūl_, _aūng yān_ and _aūng_ (right wing, right hand, right side and right) all have the same meaning, I have applied them in different senses in order to vary terms and mark distinctions. As, in the battle-array, the (Ar.) _maimana_ and _maisara_ _i.e._ what people call (Turkī) _barānghār_ and _jawānghār_ (r. and l. wings) are not included in the (Ar.) _qalb_, _i.e._ what people call (T.) _ghūl_ (centre), so it is in arraying the centre itself. Taking the array of the centre only, its (Ar.) _yamīn_ and _yasār_ (r. and l.) are called (by me) _aūng qūl_ and _sūl qūl_ (r. and l. hands). Again,—the (Ar.) _khāṣa tābīn_ (royal troop) in the centre has its _yamīn_ and _yasār_ which are called (by me) _aūng yān_ and _sūl yān_ (r. and l. sides, T. _yān_). Again,—in the _khāṣa tābīn_ there is the (T.) _būī_ (_nīng_) _tīkīnī_ (close circle); its _yamīn_ and _yasār_ are called _sūng_ and _sūl_. In the Turkī tongue they call one single thing a _būī_,[1291] but that is not the _būī_ meant here; what is meant here is close (_yāqīn_). The right wing (_barānghār_) was Mīrzā Khān (Wais), Sherīm T̤aghāī, Yārak T̤aghāī with his elder and younger brethren, Chilma _Mughūl_, Ayūb Beg, Muḥammad Beg, Ibrāhīm Beg, `Alī Sayyid _Mughūl_ with his Mughūls, Sl. Qulī _chuhra_, Khudā-bakhsh and Abū'l-ḥasan with his elder and younger brethren.