[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) › 916.1 # The Memoirs of Bābur 916.1 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 916.1 - **Language:** English ### [916.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.916.1) 916 AH.-APRIL 11TH 1510 TO MARCH 31ST 1510 AD. \_a. News of the battle of Merv.\_ Over half of this year passed quietly in Kābul; Ramẓān (December) brought from Mīrzā Khān (Wāis) the stirring news that Ismā\`īl had defeated Shaibānī near Merv.\[1335\] "It is not known," wrote the Mīrzā, "whether Shāhī Beg Khān has been killed or not. All the Aūzbegs have crossed the Amū. Amīr Aūrūs, who was in Qūndūz, has fled. About 20,000 Mughūls, who left the Aūzbeg at Merv, have come to Qūndūz. I have come there." He then invited Bābur to join him and with him to try for the recovery of their ancestral territories (T.R. p. 237). \_b. Bābur's campaign in Transoxiana begun.\_ The Mīrzā's letter was brought over passes blocked by snow; Bābur, with all possible speed, took the one winter-route through Āb-dara, kept the Ramẓān Feast in Bāmīān, and reached Qūndūz in Shawwāl (Jan. 1511 AD.). Ḥaidar's detail about the Feast seems likely to have been recorded because he had read Bābur's own remark, made in Ramẓān 933 AH. (June 1527) that up to that date, when he kept it in Sīkrī, he had not since his eleventh year kept it twice in the same place (f. 330). \_c. Mughūl affairs.\_ - [Previous: 915](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.915) - [Next: 916.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.916.2) - [Up: 916](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.916) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.916.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.916.1) · Pramāṇa