[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) › 918.10 # The Memoirs of Bābur 918.10 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 918.10 - **Language:** English ### [918.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.918.10) Some writers say that Najm S̤ānī's men did not fight well; it must be remembered that they may have been weakened by privation and that they had wished to retire. Of Bābur it is said that he, who was the reserve, did not fight at all; it is difficult to see good cause why, under all the circumstances, he should risk the loss of his men. It seems likely that Ḥaidar's strong language about this defeat would suit Bābur's temper also. "The victorious breezes of Islām overturned the banners of the schismatics.... Most of them perished on the field; the rents made by the sword at Qarshī were sewn up at Ghaj-davān by the arrow-stitches of vengeance. Najm S̤ānī and all the Turkmān amīrs were sent to hell." The belief that Bābur had failed Najm S̤ānī persisted at the Persian Court, for his inaction was made a reproach to his son Humāyūn in 951 AH. (1544 AD.), when Humāyūn was a refugee with Ismā\`īl's son T̤ahmāsp. Badāyūnī tells a story which, with great inaccuracy of name and place, represents the view taken at that time. The part of the anecdote pertinent here is that Bābur on the eve of the battle at Ghaj-davān, shot an arrow into the Aūzbeg camp which carried the following couplet, expressive of his ill-will to the Shāh and perhaps also of his rejection of the Shī\`a guise he himself had worn. I made the Shāh's Najm road-stuff for the Aūzbegs; If fault has been mine, I have now cleansed the road.\[1344\] \_g. The Mughūls attack Bābur.\_ - [Previous: 918.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.918.9) - [Next: 918.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.918.11) - [Up: 918](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.918) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.918.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.918.10) · Pramāṇa