The Memoirs of Bābur 925.11.5

925.11.5

(_Nov. 16th_) After food at dawn, we rode out and visited the Bāgh-i-pādshāhī below Astar-ghach. One young apple-tree in it had turned an admirable autumn-colour; on each branch were left 5 or 6 leaves in regular array; it was such that no painter trying to depict it could have equalled. After riding from Astar-ghach we ate at Khwāja Ḥasan, and reached Bih-zādī at the Evening Prayer. There we drank in the house of Khwāja Muḥ. Amīn's servant Imām-i-muḥammad. (_Nov. 17th_) Next day, Tuesday, we went into the Chār-bāgh of Kābul. (_Nov. 18th_) On Thursday the 23rd, having marched (_kūchūb_), the fort was entered. (_Nov. 19th_) On Friday Muḥammad `Alī (son of ?) Ḥaidar the stirrup-holder brought, as an offering, a _tūīgūn_[1519] he had caught. (_Nov. 20th_) On Saturday the 25th, there was a party in the Plane-tree garden from which I rose and mounted at the Bed-time Prayer. Sayyid Qāsim being in shame at past occurrences,[1520] we dismounted at his house and drank a few cups. [Sidenote: Fol. 248b.] (_Nov. 24th_) On Thursday the 1st of Ẕū'l-ḥijja, Tāju'd-dīn Maḥmūd, come from Qandahār, waited on me. (_Dec. 12th_) On Monday the 19th, Muḥ. `Alī _Jang-jang_ came from Nīl-āb. (_Dec. 13th_) On Tuesday the ... of the month, Sangar Khān _Janjūha_, come from Bhīra, waited on me. (_Dec. 16th_) On Friday the 23rd, I finished (copying?) the odes and couplets selected according to their measure from `Alī-sher Beg's four Dīwāns.[1521]