The Memoirs of Bābur 925.2.2

925.2.2

(_Jan. 25th_) On Tuesday the 23rd of Muḥarram an army was [Sidenote: Fol. 220.] sent under Hindū Beg to raid Panj-kūra. Panj-kūra lies more than half-way up the mountain;[1382] to reach its villages a person must go for nearly a _kuroh_ (2 m.) through a pass. The people had fled and got away; our men brought a few beasts of sorts, and masses of corn from their houses. (_Jan. 26th_) Next day (Muḥ. 24th) Qūj Beg was put at the head of a force and sent out to raid. (_Jan. 27th_) On Thursday the 25th of the month, we dismounted at the village of Māndīsh, in the trough of the Kahrāj-valley, for the purpose of getting corn for the army. (_d. Māhīm's adoption of Dil-dār's unborn child._) (_Jan. 28th_) Several children born of Humāyūn's mother had not lived. Hind-āl was not yet born.[1383] While we were in those parts, came a letter from Māhīm in which she wrote, "Whether it be a boy, whether it be a girl, is my luck and chance; give it to me; I will declare it my child and will take charge of it." On Friday the 26th of the month, we being still on that ground, Yūsuf-i-`alī the stirrup-holder was sent off to Kābul with letters[1384] bestowing Hind-āl, not yet born, on Māhīm. (_dd. Construction of a stone platform._)