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Arrivals at Court.\_) (\_Sep. 18th\_) On Friday the 3rd\[2243\] of Muḥarram, \`Askarī whom I had summoned for the good of Multān\[2244\] before I moved out for Chandīrī, waited on me in the private-house.\[2245\] (\_Sep. 19th\_) Next day waited on me the historian Khwānd-amīr, Maulānā Shihāb\[2246\] the enigmatist, and Mīr Ibrāhīm the harper a relation of Yūnas-i-\`alī, who had all come out of Herī long before, wishing to wait on me.\[2247\] (\_b. Bābur starts for Gūālīār.\_)\[2248\] (\_Sep. 20th\_) With the intention of visiting Gūālīār which in books they write Gālīūr,\[2249\] I crossed the Jūn at the Other Prayer of Sunday the 5th of the month, went into the fort of Āgra to bid farewell to Fakhr-i-jahān Begīm and Khadīja-sulṯān Begīm who were to start for Kābul in a few days, and got to horse. Muḥammad-i-zamān Mīrzā asked for leave and stayed behind in Āgra. That night we did 3 or 4 \_kurohs\_ (6-8 m.) of the road, dismounted near a large lake (\_kūl\_) and there slept. ### [935.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1.2) (\_Sep. 21st\_) We got through the Prayer somewhat before time (\_Muḥ. 6th\_) and rode on, nooned\[2250\] on the bank of the Gamb\[h\]īr-water\[2251\], and went on shortly after the Mid-day Prayer. On the way we ate\[2252\] powders mixed with the flour of parched \[Sidenote: Fol. 339b.\] grain,\[2253\] Mullā Rafī\` having prepared them for raising the spirits. They were found very distasteful and unsavoury. Near the Other Prayer we dismounted a \_kuroh\_ (2 m.) west of Dūlpūr, at a place where a garden and house had been ordered made.\[2254\] (\_c. Work in Dūlpūr (Dhūlpūr).\_) ### [935.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1.3) That place is at the end of a beaked hill,\[2255\] its beak being of solid red building-stone (\_\`imārat-tāsh\_). I had ordered the (beak of the) hill cut down (dressed down?) to the ground-level and that if there remained a sufficient height, a house was to be cut out in it, if not, it was to be levelled and a tank (\_ḥauẓ\_) cut out in its top. As it was not found high enough for a house, Ūstād Shāh Muḥammad the stone-cutter was ordered to level it and cut out an octagonal, roofed tank. North of this tank the ground is thick with trees, mangoes, \_jāman\_ (\_Eugenia jambolana\_), all sorts of trees; amongst them I had ordered a well made, 10 by 10; it was almost ready; its water goes to the afore-named tank. To the north of this tank Sl. Sikandar's dam is flung across (the valley); on it houses have been built, and above it the waters of the Rains gather into a great lake. On the east of this lake is a garden; I ordered a seat and four-pillared platform (\_tālār\_) to be cut out in the solid rock on that same side, and a mosque \[Sidenote: Fol. 340.\] built on the western one. (\_Sept. 22nd and 23rd—Muḥ. 7th and 8th\_) On account of these various works, we stayed in Dūlpūr on Tuesday and Wednesday. (\_d. Journey to Gūālīār resumed.\_) ### [935.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1.4) (\_Sep. 24th\_) On Thursday we rode on, crossed the Chaṃbal-river and made the Mid-day Prayer on its bank, between the two Prayers (the Mid-day and the Afternoon) bestirred ourselves to leave that place, passed the Kawārī and dismounted. The Kawārī-water being high through rain, we crossed it by boat, making the horses swim over. (\_Sep. 25th\_) Next day, Friday which was 'Āshūr (\_Muḥ. 10th\_), we rode on, took our nooning at a village on the road, and at the Bed-time Prayer dismounted a \_kuroh\_ north of Gūālīār, in a Chār-bāgh ordered made last year.\[2256\] (\_Sep. 26th\_) Riding on next day after the Mid-day Prayer, we visited the low hills to the north of Gūālīār, and the Praying-place, went into the fort\[2257\] through the Gate called Hātī-pūl which joins Mān-sing's buildings (\_\`imārāt\_\[2258\]), and dismounted, close to the Other Prayer, at those (\_\`imāratlār\_)\[2259\] of Rāja Bikramājīt in which Raḥīm-dād\[2260\] had settled himself. To-night I elected to take opium because of ear-ache; another reason was the shining of the moon.\[2261\] (\_e. Visit to the Rājas' palaces.\_) (\_Sep. 27th\_) Opium sickness gave me much discomfort next day (\_Muḥ. 12th\_); I vomited a good deal. Sickness notwithstanding, I visited the buildings (\_\`imāratlār\_) of Mān-sing and \[Sidenote: Fol. 340b.\] Bikramājīt thoroughly. ### [935.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1.5) They are wonderful buildings, entirely of hewn stone, in heavy and unsymmetrical blocks however.\[2262\] Of all the Rājas' buildings Mān-sing's is the best and loftiest.\[2263\] It is more elaborately worked on its eastern face than on the others. This face may be 40 to 50 \_qārī\_ (yards) high,\[2264\] and is entirely of hewn stone, whitened with plaster.\[2265\] In parts it is four storeys high; the lower two are very dark; we went through them with candles.\[2266\] On one (or, every) side of this building are five cupolas\[2267\] having between each two of them a smaller one, square after the fashion of Hindūstān. On the larger ones are fastened sheets of gilded copper. On the outside of the walls is painted-tile work, the semblance of plantain-trees being shewn all round with green tiles. In a bastion of the eastern front is the Hātī-pūl,\[2268\] \_hātī\_ being what these people call an elephant, \_pūl\_, a gate. A sculptured image of an elephant with two drivers (\_fīl-bān\_)\[2269\] stands at the out-going (\_chīqīsh\_) of this Gate; it is exactly like an elephant; from it the gate is called Hātī-pūl. A window in the \[Sidenote: Fol. ### [935.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1.6) 341.\] lowest storey where the building has four, looks towards this elephant and gives a near view of it.\[2270\] The cupolas which have been mentioned above are themselves the topmost stage (\_murtaba\_) of the building;\[2271\] the sitting-rooms are on the second storey (\_ṯabaqat\_), in a hollow even;\[2272\] they are rather airless places although Hindūstānī pains have been taken with them.\[2273\] The buildings of Mān-sing's son Bikramājīt are in a central position (\_aūrta dā\_) on the north side of the fort.\[2274\] The son's buildings do not match the father's. He has made a great dome, very dark but growing lighter if one stays awhile in it.\[2275\] Under it is a smaller building into which no light comes from any side. When Raḥīm-dād settled down in Bikramājīt's buildings, he made a rather small hall \[\_kīchīkrāq tālārghīna\_\] on the top of this dome.\[2276\] From Bikramājīt's buildings a road has been made to his father's, a road such that nothing is seen of it from outside and nothing known of it inside, a quite enclosed road.\[2277\] After visiting these buildings, we rode to a college Raḥīm-dād \[Sidenote: Fol. 341b.\] had made by the side of a large tank, there enjoyed a flower-garden\[2278\] he had laid out, and went late to where the camp was in the Chārbāgh. (\_f. Raḥīm-dād's flower-garden.\_) ### [935.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1.7) Raḥīm-dād has planted a great numbers of flowers in his garden (\_bāghcha\_), many being beautiful red oleanders. In these places the oleander-flower is peach,\[2279\] those of Gūālīār are beautiful, deep red. I took some of them to Āgra and had them planted in gardens there. On the south of the garden is a large lake\[2280\] where the waters of the Rains gather; on the west of it is a lofty idol-house,\[2281\] side by side with which Sl. Shihābu'd-dīn Aīltmīsh (Altamsh) made a Friday mosque; this is a very lofty building (\_\`imārat\_), the highest in the fort; it is seen, with the fort, from the Dūlpūr-hill (\_cir.\_ 30 m. away). People say the stone for it was cut out and brought from the large lake above-mentioned. Raḥīm-dād has made a wooden (\_yīghāch\_) \_tālār\_ in his garden, and porches at the gates, which, after the Hindūstānī fashion, are somewhat low and shapeless. (\_g. The Urwāh-valley.\_) ### [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. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.1) · Pramāṇa