The Memoirs of Bābur 933.8.2

933.8.2

With what ill-omened words Muḥammad Sharīf the astrologer had fretted me! Yet he came at once to congratulate me! I emptied my inwards[2119] in abuse of him, but, spite of his being heathenish, ill-omened of speech, extremely self-satisfied, and a most disagreeable person, I bestowed a _lak_ upon him because there had been deserving service from him in former times, and, [Sidenote: Fol. 325b.] after saying he was not to stay in my dominions, I gave him leave to go. (_b. Suppression of a rebellion._) (_March 17th_) We remained next day (_Jumāda II. 14th_) on that same ground. Muḥammad `Alī _Jang-jang_ and Shaikh Gūran and `Abdu'l-malik[2120] the armourer were sent off with a dense (_qālīn_) army against Ilīās Khān who, having rebelled in Between-the-two-waters (Ganges and Jumna), had taken Kūl (Koel) and made Kīchīk `Alī prisoner.[2121] He could not fight when they came up; his force scattered in all directions; he himself was taken a few days later and brought into Āgra where I had him flayed alive. (_c. A trophy of victory._) An order was given to set up a pillar of pagan heads on the infant-hill (_koh-bacha_) between which and our camp the battle had been fought. (_d. Bīāna visited._) (_March 20th_) Marching on from that ground, and after halting on two nights, we reached Bīāna (_Sunday_, _Jumāda II. 17th_). Countless numbers of the bodies of pagans and apostates[2122] who had fallen in their flight, lay on the road as far as Bīāna, indeed as far as Alūr and Mīwāt.[2123]