[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) › 933.2.1 # The Memoirs of Bābur 933.2.1 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 933.2.1 - **Language:** English ### [933.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.2.1) (\_f. Attempt to poison Bābur.\_) (\_Dec. 21st\_) On Friday the 16th of the first Rabī\` a strange event occurred which was detailed in a letter written to Kābul. That letter is inserted here just as it was written, without addition or taking-away, and is as follows:—\[1980\] "The details of the momentous event of Friday the 16th of the first Rabī\` in the date 933 \[Dec. 21st 1526 AD.\] are as follows:—The ill-omened old woman\[1981\] Ibrāhim's mother heard \[Sidenote: Fol. 305b.\] that I ate things from the hands of Hindūstānīs—the thing being that three or four months earlier, as I had not seen Hindūstānī dishes, I had ordered Ibrāhīm's cooks to be brought and out of 50 or 60 had kept four. Of this she heard, sent to Atāwa (Etāwa) for Aḥmad the \_chāshnīgīr\_—in Hindūstān they call a taster (\_bakāwal\_) a \_chāshnīgīr\_—and, having got him,\[1982\] gave a \_tūla\_ of poison, wrapped in a square of paper,—as has been mentioned a \_tūla\_ is rather more than 2 \_mis̤qāls\_\[1983\]—into the hand of a slave-woman who was to give it to him. That poison Aḥmad gave to the Hindūstānī cooks in our kitchen, promising them four \_parganas\_ if they would get it somehow into the food. Following the first slave-woman that ill-omened old woman sent a second to see if the first did or did not give the poison she had received to Aḥmad. Well was it that Aḥmad put the poison not into the cooking-pot but on a dish! - [Previous: 933.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.1.8) - [Next: 933.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.2.2) - [Up: 933.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.2.1) · Pramāṇa