[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) › 932.13.3 # The Memoirs of Bābur 932.13.3 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 932.13.3 - **Language:** English ### [932.13.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.13.3) It used to be the rule to beat the sign of a watch only when the watch ended; so that sleepers chancing to wake in the night and hear the sound of a third or fourth \_g'harī\_, would not know whether it was of the second or third night-watch. I therefore ordered that at night or on a cloudy day the sign of the watch should be struck after that of the \_g'harī\_, for example, that after striking the third \_g'harī\_ of the first night-watch, the \_g'harīālīs\_ were to pause and then strike the sign of the watch, in order to make it known that this third \_g'harī\_ was of the first night-watch,—and that after striking four \_g'harīs\_ of the third night-watch, they should pause and then strike the sign of the third watch, in order to make it known that this fourth \_g'harī\_ was of the third night-watch. It did very well; anyone happening to wake in the night and hear the gong, would know what \_g'harī\_ of what watch of night it was. Again, they divide the \_g'harī\_ into 60 parts, each part being called a \_pal\_;\[1907\] by this each night-and-day will consist of 3,500 \_pals\_. \[Sidenote: Fol. 290.\] (\_Author's note on the pal.\_) They say the length of a \_pal\_ is the shutting and opening of the eyelids 60 times, which in a night-and-day would be 216,000 shuttings and openings of the eyes. Experiment shews that a \_pal\_ is about equal to 8 repetitions of the \_Qul-huwa-allāh\_\[1908\] and \_Bismillāh\_; this would be 28,000 repetitions in a night-and-day. (\_q. Measures.\_) - [Previous: 932.13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.13.2) - [Next: 932.13.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.13.4) - [Up: 932.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.13.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.13.3) · Pramāṇa