[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) › 933.9.5 # The Memoirs of Bābur 933.9.5 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 933.9.5 - **Language:** English ### [933.9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.9.5) A little fragment\[2160\] had been composed suiting the state of those who had gone away during the past year; I now addressed it to Mullā \`Alī Khān and sent it to him by Tardī Beg. It is as follows:—\[2161\] Ah you who have gone from this country of Hind, \[Sidenote: Fol. 330.\] Aware for yourselves of its woe and its pain, With longing desire for Kābul's fine air, You went hot-foot forth out of Hind. The pleasure you looked for you will have found there With sociable ease and charm and delight; As for us, God be thanked! we still are alive, In spite of much pain and unending distress; Pleasures of sense and bodily toil Have been passed-by by you, passed-by too by us. (\_s. Of the Ramẓān Feast.\_) Ramẓān was spent this year with ablution and \_tarāwiḥ\_\[2162\] in the Garden-of-eight-paradises. Since my 11th year I had not kept the Ramẓān Feast for two successive years in the same place; last year I had kept it in Āgra; this year, saying, "Don't break the rule!" I went on the last day of the month to keep it in Sīkrī. Tents were set up on a stone platform made on the n.e. side of the Garden-of-victory which is now being laid out at Sīkrī, and in them the Feast was held.\[2163\] (\_t. Playing cards.\_) The night we left Āgra Mīr \`Alī the armourer was sent to Shāh Ḥasan (\_Arghūn\_) in Tatta to take him playing-cards \[\_ganjīfa\_\] he much liked and had asked for.\[2164\] (\_u. Illness and a tour.\_) (\_August 3rd\_) On Sunday the 5th of Ẕū'l-qa\`da I fell ill; the illness lasted 17 days. - [Previous: 933.9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.9.4) - [Next: 933.9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.9.6) - [Up: 933.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.9.5) · Pramāṇa