[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) › 934.2.3 # The Memoirs of Bābur 934.2.3 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 934.2.3 - **Language:** English ### [934.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.934.2.3) Not even as much as this did the pagans fight in the citadel; when a number of our men swarmed up, they fled in haste.\[2210\] In a little while they came out again, quite naked, and renewed the fight; they put many of our men to flight; they made them fly (\_āuchūrdīlār\_) over the ramparts; some they cut down and killed. Why they had gone so suddenly off the walls seems to have been that they had taken the resolve of those who give up a place as lost; they put all their ladies and beauties (\_ṣūratīlār\_) to death, then, looking themselves to die, came naked out to fight. Our men attacking, each one from his post, drove \[Sidenote: Fol. 335.\] them from the walls whereupon 2 or 300 of them entered Medinī Rāo's house and there almost all killed one another in this way:—one having taken stand with a sword, the rest eagerly stretched out the neck for his blow.\[2211\] Thus went the greater number to hell. By God's grace this renowned fort was captured in 2 or 3 \_garīs\_\[2212\] (\_cir.\_ an hour), without drum and standard,\[2213\] with no hard fighting done. A pillar of pagan-heads was ordered set up on a hill north-west of Chandīrī. A chronogram of this victory having been found in the words \_Fatḥ-i-dāru'l-ḥarb\_\[2214\] (Conquest of a hostile seat), I thus composed them:— Was for awhile the station Chandīrī Pagan-full, the seat of hostile force; By fighting, I vanquished its fort, The date was \_Fatḥ-i-dāru'l-ḥarb\_. (\_l. Further description of Chandīrī.\_) - [Previous: 934.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.934.2.2) - [Next: 934.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.934.2.4) - [Up: 934.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.934.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.934.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.934.2.3) · Pramāṇa