[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) › 925.9.2 # The Memoirs of Bābur 925.9.2 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 925.9.2 - **Language:** English ### [925.9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.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. - [Previous: 925.9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.925.9.1) - [Next: 925.9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.925.9.3) - [Up: 925.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.925.9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.925.9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.925.9.2) · Pramāṇa