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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. ### [933.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.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.\[2123\] ### [933.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.8.3) (\_e. Discussion of plans.\_) On our return to camp, I summoned the Turk amīrs and the amīrs of Hind to a consultation about moving into the Pagan (Sangā)'s country; the plan was given up because of the little water and much heat on the road. (\_f. Mīwāt.\_) Near Dihlī lies the Mīwāt country which yields revenue of 3 or 4 \_krūrs\_.\[2124\] Ḥasan Khān \_Mīwātī\_\[2125\] and his ancestors one after another had ruled it with absolute sway for a hundred years or two. They must have made\[2126\] imperfect submission to the Dihlī Sulṯāns; the Sulṯāns of Hind,\[2127\] whether because their \[Sidenote: Fol. 326.\] own dominions were wide, or because their opportunity was narrow, or because of the Mīwāt hill-country,\[2128\] did not turn in the Mīwāt direction, did not establish order in it, but just put up with this amount of (imperfect) submission. For our own part, we did after the fashion of earlier Sulṯāns; having conquered Hind, we shewed favour to Ḥasan Khān, but that thankless and heathenish apostate disregarded our kindness and benefits, was not grateful for favour and promotion, but became the mover of all disturbance and the cause of all misdoing. ### [933.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.8.4) When, as has been mentioned, we abandoned the plan (against Rānā Sangā), we moved to subdue Mīwāt. Having made 4 night-halts on the way, we dismounted on the bank of the Mānas-nī\[2129\] 6 \_kurohs\_ (12 m.) from Alūr, the present seat of government in Mīwāt. Ḥasan Khān and his forefathers must have had their seat\[2130\] in Tijāra, but when I turned towards Hindūstan, beat Pahār (or Bihār) Khān and took Lāhor and Dībālpūr (930 AH.-1524 AD.), he bethought himself betimes and busied himself for a residence (\_\`imārat\_) in Fort Alūr (Alwar). His trusted man, Karm-chand by name, who had come from him to me in Āgra when his son (Nāhar \_i.e.\_ Tiger) was with me there,\[2131\] came now from that son's presence in Alūr and asked \[Sidenote: Fol. 326b.\] for peace. \`Abdu'r-raḥīm \_shaghāwal\_ went with him to Alūr, conveying letters of royal favour, and returned bringing Nāhar Khān who was restored to favour and received \_parganas\_ worth several \_laks\_ for his support. (\_g. Rewards to officers.\_) Thinking, "What good work Khusrau did in the battle!" I named him for Alūr and gave him 50 \_laks\_ for his support, but unluckily for himself, he put on airs and did not accept this. Later on it \[\_khẉud\_, itself\] came to be known that Chīn-tīmūr must have done\[2132\] that work; guerdon was made him for his renown(?);\[2133\] Tijāra-town, the seat of government in Mīwāt, was bestowed on him together with an allowance of 50 \_laks\_ for his support. ### [933.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.8.5) Alūr and an allowance of 15 \_laks\_ was bestowed on Tardīka (or, Tardī \_yakka\_) who in the flanking-party of the right-hand (\_qūl\_) had done better than the rest. The contents of the Alūr treasury were bestowed on Humāyūn. (\_h. Alwar visited.\_) (\_April 13th\_) Marching from that camp on Wednesday the 1st of the month of Rajab, we came to within 2 \_kurohs\_ (4 m.) of Alūr. I went to see the fort, there spent the night, and next day went back to camp. (\_i. Leave given to various followers.\_) When the oath before-mentioned\[2134\] was given to great and small before the Holy-battle with Rānā Sangā, it had been mentioned\[2135\] that there would be nothing to hinder leave after \[Sidenote: Fol. 327.\] this victory, and that leave would be given to anyone wishing to go away (from Hindūstān). Most of Humāyūn's men were from Badakhshān or elsewhere on that side (of Hindū-kūsh); they had never before been of an army led out for even a month or two; there had been weakness amongst them before the fight; on these accounts and also because Kābul was empty of troops, it was now decided to give Humāyūn leave for Kābul. (\_April 11th\_) Leaving the matter at this, we marched from Alūr on Thursday the 9th of Rajab, did 4 or 5 \_kurohs\_ (8-10 m.) and dismounted on the bank of the Mānas-water. ### [933.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.8.6) Mahdī Khwāja also had many discomforts; he too was given leave for Kābul. The military-collectorate of Bīāna \[he held\] was bestowed on Dost Lord-of-the-gate, and, as previously Etāwa had been named for Mahdī Khwāja,\[2136\] Mahdī Khwāja's son Ja\`far Khwāja was sent there in his father's place when (later) Quṯb Khān abandoned it and went off.\[2137\] (\_j. Despatch of the Letter-of-victory.\_) Because of the leave given to Humāyūn, two or three days were spent on this ground. From it Mūmin-i-\`alī the messenger (\_tawāchī\_) was sent off for Kābul with the \_Fatḥ-nāma\_. (\_k. Excursions and return to Āgra.\_) ### [933.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.8.7) Praise had been heard of the Fīrūzpūr-spring and of the great lake of Kūtila.\[2138\] Leaving the camp on that same ground, I rode out on Sunday (\_Rajab 12th-April 14th\_) both to visit \[Sidenote: Fol. 327b.\] these places and to set Humāyūn on his way. After visiting Fīrūzpūr and its spring on that same day, \_ma'jūn\_ was eaten. In the valley where the spring rises, oleanders (\_kanīr\_) were in bloom; the place is not without charm but is over-praised. I ordered a reservoir of hewn stone, 10 by 10\[2139\] to be made where the water widened, spent the night in that valley, next day rode on and visited the Kūtila lake. It is surrounded by mountain-skirts. The Mānas-nī is heard-say to go into it.\[2140\] It is a very large lake, from its one side the other side is not well seen. In the middle of it is rising ground. At its sides are many small boats, by going off in which the villagers living near it are said to escape from any tumult or disturbance. Even on our arrival a few people went in them to the middle of the lake. ### [933.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.8.8) On our way back from the lake, we dismounted in Humāyūn's camp. There we rested and ate food, and after having put robes of honour on him and his begs, bade him farewell at the Bed-time Prayer, and rode on. We slept for a little at some place on the road, at shoot of day passed through the \_pargana\_ of Kharī, again slept a little, and at length got to our camp which had dismounted at Toda-(bhim).\[2141\] After leaving Toda, we dismounted at Sūnkār; there Ḥasan Khān \_Mīwātī's\_ son \[Sidenote: Fol. 328.\] Nāhar Khān escaped from \`Abdu'r-raḥīm's charge. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.8) · Pramāṇa