[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) › 932.15.1 # The Memoirs of Bābur 932.15.1 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 932.15.1 - **Language:** English ### [932.15.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.15.1) Loathing Hindūstān, Khwāja Kalān, when on his way, had the following couplet inscribed on the wall of his residence \[Sidenote: Fol. 296.\] (\_\`imāratī\_) in Dihlī:— If safe and sound I cross the Sind, Blacken my face ere I wish for Hind! It was ill-mannered in him to compose and write up this partly-jesting verse while I still stayed in Hind. If his departure caused me one vexation, such a jest doubled it.\[1930\] I composed the following off-hand verse, wrote it down and sent it to him:— Give a hundred thanks, Bābur, that the generous Pardoner Has given thee Sind and Hind and many a kingdom. If thou (\_i.e.\_ the Khwāja) have not the strength for their heats, If thou say, "Let me see the cold side (\_yūz\_)," Ghaznī is there.\[1931\] (\_f. Accretions to Bābur's force.\_) At this juncture, Mullā Apāq was sent into Kūl with royal letters of favour for the soldiers and quiver-wearers (\_tarkash-band\_) of that neighbourhood. Shaikh Gūran (G'hūran)\[1932\] came trustfully and loyally to do obeisance, bringing with him from 2 to 3,000 soldiers and quiver-wearers from Between-two-waters (\_Mīān-dū-āb\_). (\_Author's note on Mullā Apāq.\_) Formerly he had been in a very low position indeed, but two or three years before this time, had gathered his elder and younger brethren into a compact body and had brought them in (to me), together with the Aūrūq-zāī and other Afghāns of the banks of the Sind. - [Previous: 932.14.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.14.8) - [Next: 932.15.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.15.2) - [Up: 932.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.15.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.15.1) · Pramāṇa