[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) › 917.1 # The Memoirs of Bābur 917.1 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 917.1 - **Language:** English ### [917.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.917.1) 917 AH.-MARCH 31ST 1511 TO MARCH 19TH 1512 AD. \_a. Second attempt on Ḥiṣār.\_ In this year Bābur moved again on Ḥiṣār. He took post, where once his forbear Tīmūr had wrought out success against great odds, at the Pul-i-sangīn (Stone-bridge) on the Sūrkh-āb, and lay there a month awaiting reinforcement. The Aūzbeg sulṯāns faced him on the other side of the river, they too, presumably, awaiting reinforcement. They moved when they felt themselves strong enough to attack, whether by addition to their own numbers, whether by learning that Bābur had not largely increased his own. Concerning the second alternative it is open to surmise that he hoped for larger reinforcement than he obtained; he appears to have left Qūndūz before the return of Mīrzā Khān from his embassy to Ismā\`īl, to have expected Persian reinforcement with the Mīrzā, and at Pul-i-sangīn, where the Mīrzā joined him in time to fight, to have been strengthened by the Mīrzā's own following, and few, if any, foreign auxiliaries. These surmises are supported by what Khwānd-amīr relates of the conditions \[specified later\] on which the Shāh's main contingent was despatched and by his shewing that it did not start until after the Shāh had had news of the battle at Pul-i-sangīn. - [Previous: 916.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.916.4) - [Next: 917.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.917.2) - [Up: 917](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.917) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.917.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.917.1) · Pramāṇa