[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) › 925.10.1 # The Memoirs of Bābur 925.10.1 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 925.10.1 - **Language:** English ### [925.10.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.925.10.1) (\_Sep. 26th\_) On Monday we marched with the dawn of the Feast-day,\[1499\] eating a confection on the road to dispel crop-sickness. While under its composing influence (\_nāklīk\_), we were brought a colocynth-apple (\_khunṯul\_). Darwīsh-i-muḥammad had never seen one; said I, "It is a melon of Hindūstān," sliced it and gave him a piece. He bit into it at once; it was night before the bitter taste went out of his mouth. At Garm-chashma we dismounted on rising-ground where cold meat was being set out for us when Langar Khān arrived to wait on me after being for a time at his own place (Koh-i-jūd). He brought an offering of a horse and a few confections. Passing on, we dismounted at Yada-bīr, at the Other Prayer got on a raft there, went for as much as two miles on it, then left it. (\_Sep. 27th\_) Riding on next morning, we dismounted below the Khaibar-pass. Today arrived Sl. Bāyazīd, come up by the \[Sidenote: Fol. 243b.\] Bāra-road after hearing of us; he set forth that the Afrīdī Afghāns were seated in Bāra with their goods and families and that they had grown a mass of corn which was still standing (lit. on foot). Our plan being for the Yūsuf-zāī Afghāns of Hash-naghar, we paid him no attention. At the Mid-day Prayer there was a wine-party in Khwāja Muḥammad \`Alī's tent. During the party details about our coming in this direction were written and sent off by the hand of a sulṯān of Tīrah to Khwāja Kalān in Bajaur. I wrote this couplet on the margin of the letter (\_farmān\_):— - [Previous: 925.9.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.925.9.8) - [Next: 925.10.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.925.10.2) - [Up: 925.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.925.10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.925.10.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.925.10.1) · Pramāṇa