The Memoirs of Bābur 933.8.1

933.8.1

(_b. Chronograms of the victory._) Shaikh Zain had found (_tāpīb aīdī_) the words _Fatḥ-i-pādshāḥ-i-islām_[2114] (Victory of the Pādshāh of the Faith) to be a chronogram of the victory. Mīr Gesū, one of the people come from Kābul, had also found these same words to be a chronogram, had composed them in a quatrain and sent this to me. It was a coincidence that Shaikh Zain and Mīr Gesū should bring forward precisely the same words in the quatrains they composed to embellish their discoveries.[2115] Once before when Shaikh Zain found the date of the victory at Dībālpūr in the words _Wasaṯ-i-shahr Rabī`u'l-awwal_[2116] (Middle of the month Rabī` I.), Mīr Gesū had found it in the very same words. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE RESUMED. (_a. After the victory._) The foes beaten, we hurried them off, dismounting one after another. The Pagan's encirclement[2117] may have been 2 _kurohs_ from our camp (_aūrdū_); when we reached his camp (_aūrdū_), we sent Muḥammadī, `Abdu'l-`azīz, `Alī Khān and some others in pursuit of him. There was a little slackness;[2118] I ought to have gone myself, and not have left the matter to what I expected from other people. When I had gone as much as a _kuroh_ (2 m.) beyond the Pagan's camp, I turned back because it was late in the day; I came to our camp at the Bed-time Prayer.