The Memoirs of Bābur 935.2.1

935.2.1

Three sides of Urwā are solid rock, not the red rock of Bīāna but one paler in colour. On these sides people have cut out idol-statues, large and small, one large statue on the south side being perhaps 20 _qārī_ (yds.) high.[2284] These idols are shewn quite naked without covering for the privities. Along the sides of [Sidenote: Fol. 342b.] the two Urwā lakes 20 or 30 wells have been dug, with water from which useful vegetables (_sabzī kārlīklār_), flowers and trees are grown. Urwā is not a bad place; it is shut in (T. _tūr_); the idols are its defect; I, for my part, ordered them destroyed.[2285] Going out of Urwā into the fort again, we enjoyed the window[2286] of the Sultānī-pūl which must have been closed through the pagan time till now, went to Raḥīm-dād's flower-garden at the Evening Prayer, there dismounted and there slept. (_h. A son of Rānā Sangā negociates with Bābur._) (_Sep. 29th_) On Tuesday the 14th of the month came people from Rānā Sangā's second son, Bikramājīt by name, who with his mother Padmāwatī was in the fort of Rantanbūr. Before I rode out for Gūālīār,[2287] others had come from his great and trusted Hindū, Asūk by name, to indicate Bikramājīt's submission and obeisance and ask a subsistence-allowance of 70 _laks_ for him; it had been settled at that time that _parganas_ to the amount he asked should be bestowed on him, his men were given leave to go, with tryst for Gūālīār which we were about to visit.