The Memoirs of Bābur 925.9.2

925.9.2

(_August 15th_) We rode out at dawn and ate a confection. At the infall of the Parwān-water many fish were taken in the local way of casting a fish-drug into the water.[1484] Mīr Shāh Beg set food and water (_āsh u āb_) before us; we then rode on to Gul-bahār. At a wine-party held after the Evening Prayer, Darwīsh-i-muḥammad (_Sārbān_) was present. Though a young man and a soldier, he had not yet committed the sin (_irtqāb_) of wine, but was in obedience (_tā'ib_). Qūtlūq Khwāja _Kūkūldāsh_ had long before abandoned soldiering to become a darwīsh; moreover he was very old, his very beard was quite white; nevertheless he took his share of wine at these parties. Said I to Darwīsh-i-muḥammad, "Qūtlūq Khwāja's beard shames you! He, a darwīsh and an old man, always drinks wine; you, a soldier, a young man, your beard quite black, never drink! What does it mean?" My custom being not to press wine on a non-drinker, with so much said, it all passed off as a joke; he was not pressed to drink. (_August 16th_) At dawn we made our morning (_ṣubāḥī ṣubūḥī qīldūk_). (_August 17th_) Riding on Wednesday from Gul-i-bahār, we [Sidenote: Fol. 241.] dismounted in Abūn-village[1485], ate food, remounted, went to a summer-house in the orchards (_bāghāt-i-kham_) and there dismounted. There was a wine-party after the Mid-day Prayer.