[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) › 934.2.4 # The Memoirs of Bābur 934.2.4 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 934.2.4 - **Language:** English ### [934.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.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.\[2223\] - [Previous: 934.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.934.2.3) - [Next: 934.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.934.2.5) - [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.934.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.934.2.4) · Pramāṇa