[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) › 933.9.6 # The Memoirs of Bābur 933.9.6 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 933.9.6 - **Language:** English ### [933.9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.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\[2169\]:— - [Previous: 933.9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.9.5) - [Next: 933.9.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.9.7) - [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.933.9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.933.9.6) · Pramāṇa