[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) › 935.1.8 # The Memoirs of Bābur 935.1.8 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 935.1.8 - **Language:** English ### [935.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.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. - [Previous: 935.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1.7) - [Next: 935.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.2.1) - [Up: 935.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1.8) · Pramāṇa