The Memoirs of Bābur 914.2

914.2

Earlier on Muḥibb-i-`alī the armourer had told Khalīfa and Mullā Bābā once or twice of their assemblies, and both had given me a hint, but the thing seeming incredible, it had had no attention. One night, towards the Bed-time Prayer, when I was sitting in the Audience-hall of the Chār-bāgh, Mūsa Khwāja, coming swiftly up with another man, said in my ear, "The Mughūls are really rebelling! We do not know for certain whether they have got `Abdu'r-razzāq M. to join them. They have not settled to rise to-night." I feigned disregard and a little later went towards the _ḥarams_ which at the time were in the Yūrūnchqa-garden[1328] and the Bāgh-i-khilwat, but after page, servitor and messenger (_yasāwal_) had turned back on getting [Sidenote: Fol. 216b.] near them, I went with the chief-slave towards the town, and on along the ditch. I had gone as far as the Iron-gate when Khwāja Muḥ. `Alī[1329] met me, he coming by the _bāzār_ road from the opposite direction. He joined me ... of the porch of the Hot-bath (_ḥammām_)....[1330] TRANSLATOR'S NOTE ON 914 TO 925 AH.—1508 TO 1519 AD. From several references made in the _Bābur-nāma_ and from a passage in Gul-badan's _Humāyūn-nāma_ (f. 15), it is inferrible that Bābur was composing the annals of 914 AH. not long before his last illness and death.[1331]