The Memoirs of Bābur 932.13.8

932.13.8

Another good thing in Hindūstān is that it has unnumbered and endless workmen of every kind. There is a fixed caste (_jam`ī_) for every sort of work and for every thing, which has done that work or that thing from father to son till now. Mullā Sharaf, writing in the _Z̤afar-nāma_ about the building of Tīmūr Beg's Stone Mosque, lays stress on the fact that on it 200 stone-cutters worked, from Āẕarbāījān, Fars, Hindūstān and other countries. But 680 men worked daily on my buildings in Āgra and of Āgra stone-cutters only; while 1491 stone-cutters worked daily on my buildings in Āgra, Sīkrī, Bīāna, Dūlpūr, Gūālīār and Kūīl. In [Sidenote: Fol. 292.] the same way there are numberless artisans and workmen of every sort in Hindūstān.