[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) › 932.12.6 # The Memoirs of Bābur 932.12.6 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 932.12.6 - **Language:** English ### [932.12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12.6) In Hindūstān there is great variety of flowers. One is the (D.) \_jāsūn\_ (\_Hibiscus rosa sinensis\_), which some Hindūstānīs call (Hindī) \_gaẕhal\_.\[1889\] \*It is not a grass (\_giyāh\_); its tree (is in stems like the bush of the red-rose; it) is rather taller than the bush of the red-rose.\[1890\]\* The flower of the \_jāsūn\_ is fuller in colour than that of the pomegranate, and may be of the size of the red-rose, but, the red-rose, when its bud has grown, opens simply, whereas, when the \_jāsūn\_-bud opens, a stem on which other petals grow, is seen like a heart amongst its expanded petals. Though the two are parts of the one flower, yet the outcome of the lengthening and thinning of that stem-like heart of the first-opened petals gives the semblance of two flowers.\[1891\] It is not a common matter. The beautifully coloured flowers look very well on the tree, but they do not last long; they fade in just one day. The \_jāsūn\_ blossoms very well through the four months of the rains; it seems indeed to flower all through the year; with this profusion, however, it gives no perfume. - [Previous: 932.12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12.5) - [Next: 932.12.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12.7) - [Up: 932.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12.6) · Pramāṇa