The Memoirs of Bābur 933.9.6

933.9.6

(_August 24th_) On Friday the 24th of the same month we set out to visit Dūlpūr. That night I slept at a place half-way; [Sidenote: Fol. 330b.] reached Sikandar's dam[2165] at dawn, and dismounted there. At the end of the hill below the dam the rock is of building-stone. I had Ustād Shāh Muḥammad the stone-cutter brought and gave him an order that if a house could be cut all in one piece in that rock, it was to be done, but that if the rock were too low for a residence (_`imārat_), it was to be levelled and have a reservoir, all in one piece, cut out of it. From Dūlpūr we went on to visit Bārī. Next morning (_August 26th_) I rode out from Bārī through the hills between it and the Chaṃbal-river in order to view the river. This done I went back to Bārī. In these hills we saw the ebony-tree, the fruit of which people call _tindū_. It is said that there are white ebony-trees also and that most ebony-trees in these hills are of this kind.[2166] On leaving Bārī we went to Sīkrī; we reached Āgra on the 29th of the same month (_August 28th_). (_v. Doubts about Shaikh Bāyazīd Farmūlī._) As in these days people were telling wild news about Shaikh Bāyazīd, Sl. Qulī _Turk_ was sent to him to give him tryst[2167] in 20 days. (_w. Religious and metrical exercises._) (_August 28th_) On Friday the 2nd of Ẕū'l-ḥijja I began what one is made to read 41 times.[2168] In these same days I cut up [_taqṯi`_] the following couplet of mine into 504 measures[2169]:—