The Memoirs of Bābur 934.2.4

934.2.4

Chandīrī is situated (in) rather good country,[2215] having much running-water round about it. Its citadel is on a hill and inside it has a tank cut out of the solid rock. There is another large tank[2216] at the end of the _dū-tahī_ by assaulting which the fort was taken. All houses in Chandīrī, whether of high or low, are built of stone, those of chiefs being laboriously carved;[2217] those of the lower classes are also of stone but are not carved. They are covered in [Sidenote: Fol. 335b.] with stone-slabs instead of with earthen tiles. In front of the fort are three large tanks made by former governors who threw dams across and made tanks round about it; their ground lies high.[2218] It has a small river (_daryācha_), Betwa[2219] by name, which may be some 3 _kurohs_ (6 m.) from Chandīrī itself; its water is noted in Hindūstān as excellent and pleasant drinking. It is a perfect little river (_daryā-ghīna_). In its bed lie piece after piece of sloping rock (_qīālār_)[2220] fit for making houses.[2221] Chandīrī is 90 _kurohs_ (180 m.) by road to the south of Āgra. In Chandīrī the altitude of the Pole-star (?) is 25 degrees.[2222] (_m. Enforced change of campaign._) (_Jan. 30th-Jumāda I. 8th_) At dawn on Thursday we went round the fort and dismounted beside Mallū Khān's tank.[2223]