The Memoirs of Bābur 935.1.8

935.1.8

(_Sep. 28th_) Next day (_Muḥ. 13th_) at the Mid-day Prayer we rode out to visit places in Gūālīār we had not yet seen. We saw the _`imārat_ called Bādalgar[2282] which is part of Mān-sing's fort (_qila`_), went through the Hātī-pūl and across the fort to a place called Urwā (Urwāh), which is a valley-bottom (_qūl_) on its western side. Though Urwā is outside the fort-wall running along the top of the hill, it has two stages (_murtaba_) of high wall at its mouth. The higher of these walls is some 30 or 40 _qārī_ (yards) high; this is the longer one; at each end it joins [Sidenote: Fol. 342.] the wall of the fort. The second wall curves in and joins the middle part of the first; it is the lower and shorter of the two. This curve of wall will have been made for a water-thief;[2283] within it is a stepped well (_wā'īn_) in which water is reached by 10 or 15 steps. Above the Gate leading from the valley to this walled-well the name of Sl. Shihābu'd-dīn Aīltmīsh (Altamsh) is inscribed, with the date 630 (AH.-1233 AD.). Below this outer wall and outside the fort there is a large lake which seems to dwindle (at times) till no lake remains; from it water goes to the water-thief. There are two other lakes inside Urwā the water of which those who live in the fort prefer to all other.