The Memoirs of Bābur 925.2.6

925.2.6

(_Feb. 14th_) Marching on next day, we dismounted between Kātlāng and Maqām. A man of Shāh Manṣūr's arrived. Khusrau Kūkūldāsh and Aḥmadī the secretary were sent with a few more to meet the baggage-train. (_Feb. 15th_) On Wednesday the 14th of the month, the baggage-train rejoined us while we were dismounting at Maqām. It will have been within the previous 30 or 40 years that a heretic qalandar named Shahbāz perverted a body of Yūsuf-zāī and another of Dilazāk. His tomb was on a free and dominating height of the lower hill at the bill (_tūmshūq_) of the [Sidenote: Fol. 222.] Maqām mountain. Thought I, "What is there to recommend the tomb of a heretic qalandar for a place in air so free?" and ordered the tomb destroyed and levelled with the ground. The place was so charming and open that we elected to sit there some time and to eat a confection (_ma'jūn_). (_h. Bābur crosses the Indus for the first time._)