The Memoirs of Bābur 934.3.7

934.3.7

Mr. Erskine notes (_Mems._ p. 381 n.) that he found the gap in all MSS. he saw and that historians of Hindūstān throw no light upon the transactions of the period. Much can be gleaned however as to Bābur's occupations during the 5-1/2 months of the _lacuna_ from his chronicle of 935 AH. which makes several references to occurrences of "last year" and also allows several inferences to be drawn. From this source it becomes known that the Afghān campaign the record of which is broken by the gap, was carried on and that in its course Bābur was at Jūn-pūr (f. 365), Chausa (f. 365_b_) and Baksara (f. 366-366_b_); that he swam the Ganges (f. 366_b_), bestowed Sarūn on a Farmūlī Shaikh-zāda (f. 374_b_ and f. 377), negociated with Rānā Sangā's son Bikramājīt (f. 342_b_), ordered a Chār-bāgh laid out (f. 340), and was ill for 40 days (f. 346_b_). It may be inferred too that he visited Dūlpūr (f. 353_b_) recalled `Askarī (f. 339), sent Khwāja Dost-i-khāwand on family affairs to Kābul (f. 345_b_), and was much pre-occupied by the disturbed state of Kābul (_see_ his letters to Humāyūn and Khwāja Kālan written in 935 AH.).[2241]