The Memoirs of Bābur 932.4.6

932.4.6

(_March 13th_) On Monday the 28th of the first Jumāda,[1655] we being in that same camp, the Sun entered the Sign of the Ram. News had come again and again from Ibrāhīm's camp, "He is coming, marching two miles" or "four miles", "stopping in each camp two days," or "three days". We for our part advanced from Shāhābād and after halting on two nights, reached the bank of the Jūn-river (Jumna) and encamped opposite Sarsāwa. From that ground Khwāja Kalān's servant Ḥaidar-qulī was sent to get news (_tīl tūtā_). Having crossed the Jūn-river at a ford, I visited Sarsāwa. That day also we ate _ma`jūn_. Sarsāwa[1656] has a source (_chashma_) from which a smallish stream issues, not a bad place! Tardī Beg _khāksār_ praising it, I said, "Let it be thine!" so just [Sidenote: Fol. 263b.] because he praised it, Sarsāwa was given to him! I had a platform fixed in a boat and used to go for excursions on the river, sometimes too made the marches down it. Two marches along its bank had been made when, of those sent to gather news, Ḥaidar-qulī brought word that Ibrāhīm had sent Daud Khān (_Lūdī_) and Ḥātīm Khān (_Lūdī_) across the river into the Mīān-dū-āb (Tween-waters) with 5 or 6000 men, and that these lay encamped some 6 or 7 miles from his own. (_s. A successful encounter._)