[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) › 932.7.5 # The Memoirs of Bābur 932.7.5 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 932.7.5 - **Language:** English ### [932.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.7.5) The second is Rānā Sangā who in these latter days had grown great by his own valour and sword. His original country was Chitūr; in the downfall from power of the Mandāū sulṯāns, he became possessed of many of their dependencies such as Rantanbūr, Sārangpūr, Bhīlsān and Chandīrī. Chandīrī I stormed in 934 AH. (1528 A.D.)\[1722\] and, by God's pleasure, took it in a few hours; in it was Rānā Sangā's great and trusted man Midnī Rāo; we made general massacre of the Pagans in it and, as will be narrated, converted what for many years had been a mansion of hostility, into a mansion of Islām. There are very many rāīs and rājas on all sides and quarters of Hindūstān, some obedient to Islām, some, because of their remoteness or because their places are fastnesses, not subject to Musalmān rule. (\_c. Of Hindūstān.\_) Hindūstān is of the first climate, the second climate, and the third climate; of the fourth climate it has none. It is a wonderful country. Compared with our countries it is a different world; its mountains, rivers, jungles and deserts, its towns, its cultivated lands, its animals and plants, its peoples and their tongues, its rains, and its winds, are all different. In some respects the hot-country (\_garm-sīl\_) that depends on Kābul, is like Hindūstān, but in others, it is different. Once the water of Sind is crossed, everything is in the Hindūstān way (\_ṯāriq\_) \[Sidenote: Fol. 272b.\] land, water, tree, rock, people and horde, opinion and custom. - [Previous: 932.7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.7.4) - [Next: 932.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.7.6) - [Up: 932.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.7.5) · Pramāṇa