[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) › 932.16.4 # The Memoirs of Bābur 932.16.4 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 932.16.4 - **Language:** English ### [932.16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.16.4) In an empty space inside the fort, which was between Ibrāhīm's residence and the ramparts, I ordered a large chambered-well (\_wāīn\_) to be made, measuring 10 by 10,\[1952\] a large well with a flight of steps, which in Hindūstān is called a \_wāīn\_.\[1953\] This well was begun before the Chār-bāgh\[1954\]; they were busy digging it in the true Rains (\_\`aīn bīshkāl\_, Sāwan and Bhadon); it fell in several times and buried the hired workmen; it was finished after the Holy Battle with Rānā Sangā, as is stated in the inscription on the stone that bears the chronogram of its completion. It is a complete \_wāīn\_, having a three-storeyed house in it. The lowest storey consists of three rooms, each of which opens on the descending steps, at intervals of three steps from one another. When the water is at its lowest, it is one step below the bottom chamber; when it rises in the Rains, it sometimes goes into the top storey. In the middle storey an inner chamber has been excavated which connects with the domed building in which the bullock turns the well-wheel. The \[Sidenote: Fol. 301.\] top storey is a single room, reached from two sides by 5 or 6 steps which lead down to it from the enclosure overlooked from the well-head. Facing the right-hand way down, is the stone inscribed with the date of completion. - [Previous: 932.16.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.16.3) - [Next: 932.16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.16.5) - [Up: 932.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.16.4) · Pramāṇa