[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) › 933.2.3 # The Memoirs of Bābur 933.2.3 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 933.2.3 - **Language:** English ### [933.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.2.3) "On Friday, late after the Afternoon Prayer, when the cooked meats were set out, I ate a good deal of a dish of hare and also much fried carrot, took a few mouthfuls of the poisoned Hindūstānī food without noticing any unpleasant flavour, took also a mouthful or two of dried-meat (\_qāq\_). Then I felt sick. As some dried meat eaten on the previous day had had an unpleasant taste, I thought my nausea due to the dried-meat. Again and again my heart rose; after retching two or three times I was near vomiting on the table-cloth. At last I saw it would not do, got up, went retching every moment of the way to the water-closet (\_āb-khāna\_) and on reaching it vomited much. Never had I vomited after food, used not to do so indeed while drinking. I became suspicious; I had the cooks put in ward and ordered some of the vomit given to a dog and the dog to be watched. It was somewhat out-of-sorts near the first watch of the next day; its belly was swollen and however much people threw stones at it and turned it over, it did not get up. In that state it remained till mid-day; it then got up; it did not die. \[Sidenote: Fol. 306b.\] One or two of the braves who also had eaten of that dish, vomited a good deal next day; one was in a very bad state. In the end all escaped. (\_Persian\_) 'An evil arrived but happily passed on!' God gave me new-birth! I am coming from that other world; I am born today of my mother; I was sick; I live; through God, I know today the worth of life!"\[1985\] - [Previous: 933.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.2.2) - [Next: 933.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.2.4) - [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.933.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.2.3) · Pramāṇa