[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) › 933.7.2 # The Memoirs of Bābur 933.7.2 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 933.7.2 - **Language:** English ### [933.7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.7.2) Our high-born brother\[2087\] Muḥammad Sl. Mīrzā, and the representative of royal dignity, \`Ādil Sulṯān, and the trusted in the State, the strengthener of the Faith, \`Abdu'l-\`azīz, the Master of the Horse, and the glory of the Faith, Qūtlūq-qadam \_qarāwal\_, and the meteor of the Faith, Muḥammad \`Alī \_Jang-jang\_, and the pillar of royal retainers, Shāh Ḥusain \_yāragī Mughūl Ghānchī\_(?) stretched out the arm to fight and stood firm. To support them we sent the \_Dastūr\_, the highest of wazīrs, Khwāja \[Sidenote: Fol. 322b.\] Kamālu'd-dīn Ḥusain with a body of \_dīwānīs\_.\[2088\] Every holy warrior was eager to show his zeal, entering the fight with desperate joy as if approving the verse, \_Say, Do you expect any other should befall us than one of the two most excellent things, victory or martyrdom?\_\[2089\] and, with display of life-devotion, uplifted the standard of life-sacrifice. As the conflict and battle lasted long, an imperative order was issued that the special royal corps (\_tābīnān-i-khāṣa-i-pādshāhī\_)\[2090\] who, heroes of one hue,\[2091\] were standing, like tigers enchained, behind the carts,\[2092\] should go out on the right and the left of the centre,\[2093\] leaving the matchlockmen's post in-between, and join battle on both sides. As the True Dawn emerges from its cleft in the horizon, so they emerged from behind the carts; they poured a ruddy crepuscule of the blood of those ill-fated pagans on the nadir of the Heavens, that battle-field; - [Previous: 933.7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.7.1) - [Next: 933.7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.7.3) - [Up: 933.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.7.2) · Pramāṇa