[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) › 932.5.6 # The Memoirs of Bābur 932.5.6 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 932.5.6 - **Language:** English ### [932.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.5.6) On hearing of this affair, I sent off Humāyūn and his troops to go 2 or 3 miles to meet them, and followed him myself with the rest of the army in battle-array. The party of the night-attack joined him and came back with him. The enemy making no further advance, we returned to camp and dismounted. That night a false alarm fell on the camp; for some 20 minutes (one \_garī\_) there were uproar and call-to-arms; the disturbance died down after a time. \[Sidenote: Fol. 266.\] (\_w. Battle of Pānī-pat.\_\[1668\]) (\_April 20th\_) On Friday the 8th of Rajab,\[1669\] news came, when it was light enough to distinguish one thing from another (\_farẓ-waqtī\_) that the enemy was advancing in fighting-array. We at once put on mail,\[1670\] armed and mounted.\[1671\] Our right was Humāyūn, Khwāja Kalān, Sulṯān Muḥammad \_Dūldāī\_, Hindū Beg, Treasurer Walī and Pīr-qulī \_Sīstānī\_; our left was Muḥammad Sl. Mīrzā, Mahdī Khwāja, \`Ādil Sulṯān, Shāh Mīr Ḥusain, Sl. Junaid \_Barlās\_, Qūtlūq-qadam, Jān Beg, Pay-master Muḥammad, and Shāh Ḥusain (of) Yāragī \_Mughūl Ghānchī\_(?).\[1672\] The right hand of the centre\[1673\] was Chīn-tīmūr Sulṯān, Sulaimān Mīrzā,\[1674\] Muḥammadī Kūkūldāsh, Shāh Manṣūr \_Barlās\_, Yūnas-i-\`alī, Darwīsh-i-muḥammad \_Sārbān\_ and \`Abdu'l-lāh the librarian. The left of the centre was Khalīfa, Khwāja Mīr-i-mīrān, Secretary Aḥmadī, Tardī Beg (brother) of Qūj Beg, Khalīfa's Muḥibb-i-\`alī and Mīrzā Beg Tarkhān. The advance was Khusrau Kūkūldāsh and Muḥ. \`Alī \_Jang-jang\_. - [Previous: 932.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.5.5) - [Next: 932.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.5.7) - [Up: 932.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.5.6) · Pramāṇa