The Memoirs of Bābur 932.16.2

932.16.2

(_August 21st_) Humāyūn set out on Thursday the 13th of Ẕū'l-qa´da, dismounted at a little village called Jilīsīr (Jalesar) some 3 _kurohs_ from Āgra, there stayed one night, then moved forward march by march. (_k. Khwāja Kalān's departure._) (_August 28th_) On Thursday the 20th of this same month, Khwāja Kalān started for Kābul. (_l. Of gardens and pleasaunces._) One of the great defects of Hindūstān being its lack of running-waters,[1948] it kept coming to my mind that waters should be made to flow by means of wheels erected wherever I might settle down, also that grounds should be laid out in an orderly and symmetrical way. With this object in view, we crossed the Jūn-water to look at garden-grounds a few days after entering Āgra. Those grounds were so bad and unattractive that we traversed them with a hundred disgusts and repulsions. So ugly and displeasing were they, that the idea of making a [Sidenote: Fol. 300.] Chār-bāgh in them passed from my mind, but needs must! as there was no other land near Āgra, that same ground was taken in hand a few days later.