The Memoirs of Bābur 913.4.1

913.4.1

I gave the Qandahār country to Nāṣir Mīrzā. After the treasure had been got into order, loaded up and started off, he took the loads of white _tankas_ off a string of camels (_i.e._ _7_ beasts) at the citadel-treasury, and kept them. I did not demand them back; I just gave them to him. On leaving Qandahār, we dismounted in the Qūsh-khāna meadow. After setting the army forward, I had gone for an excursion, so I got into camp rather late. It was another camp! not to be recognized! Excellent _tīpūchāqs_, strings and strings of he-camels, she-camels, and mules, bearing saddle-bags (_khurzīn_) of silken stuffs and cloth,—tents of scarlet (cloth) and velvet, all sorts of awnings, every kind of work-shop, ass-load after ass-load of chests! The goods of the elder and younger (Arghūn) brethren had been kept in separate treasuries; out of each had come chest upon chest, bale upon bale of stuffs and clothes-in-wear (_artmāq artmāq_), sack upon sack of white _tankas_. In _aūtāgh_ and _chādar_ (lattice-tent and pole-tent) was much spoil for every man soever; many sheep also had been taken but sheep were less cared about!