[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) › 933.5.8 # The Memoirs of Bābur 933.5.8 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 933.5.8 - **Language:** English ### [933.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.5.8) and he had this authority although the rājas and rāīs of high degree, who obeyed him in this battle, and the governors and commanders who were amongst his followers in this conflict, had not obeyed him in any earlier fight or, out of regard to their own dignity, been friendly with him. Infidel standards dominated some 200 towns in the territories of Islām; in them mosques and shrines fell into ruin; from them the wives and children of the Faithful were carried away captive. So greatly had his forces grown that, according to the Hindū calculation by which one \_lak\_ of revenue should yield 100 horsemen, and one \_krūr\_ of revenue, 10,000 horsemen, the territories subject to the Pagan (Sangā) yielding 10 \_krūrs\_, should yield him 100,000 horse. Many noted pagans who hitherto had not helped him in battle, now swelled his ranks out of hostility to the people of Islām. Ten powerful chiefs, each the leader of a pagan host, uprose in rebellion, as smoke rises, and linked themselves, as though \[Sidenote: Fol. 318.\] enchained, to that perverse one (Sangā); and this infidel decade who, unlike the blessed ten,\[2051\] uplifted misery-freighted standards which \_denounce unto them excruciating punishment\_,\[2052\] had many dependants, and troops, and wide-extended lands. - [Previous: 933.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.5.7) - [Next: 933.5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.5.9) - [Up: 933.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.5.8) · Pramāṇa