The Memoirs of Bābur 935.6.1

935.6.1

(_The last explicit date is a week back._) (_ii. News of the loss of Bihār reaches Dhūlpūr._) (_Jan. 9th_) On the eve of Sunday the 28th of the month (_Rabi` II._) we crossed the Jūn (Jumna) at the 6th _garī_ of the 3rd watch (2.15 a.m.) and started for the Lotus-garden of Dūlpūr. The 3rd watch was near[2428] (Sunday mid-day) when we reached it. Places were assigned on the border of the garden, where begs and the household might build or make camping-grounds for themselves. (_Jan. 13th_) On Thursday the 3rd of the first Jumāda, a place was fixed in the s.e. of the garden for a Hot-bath; the ground was to be levelled; I ordered a plinth(?) (_kursī_) erected on the levelled ground, and a Bath to be arranged, in one room of which was to be a reservoir 10 X 10. On this same day Khalīfa sent from Āgra dutiful letters of Qāẓī Jīā and Bīr-sing Deo, saying it had been heard said that Iskandar's son Maḥmūd (_Lūdī_) had taken Bihār (town). This news decided for getting the army to horse. (_Jan. 14th_) On Friday (_Jumāda I. 4th_), we rode out from the Lotus-garden at the 6th _garī_ (8.15 a.m.); at the Evening Prayer we reached Āgra. We met Muḥammad-i-zamān Mīrzā on the road who would have gone to Dūlpūr, Chīn-tīmūr also who must have been coming into Agra.[2429] (_Jan. 15th_) On Saturday (_5th_) the counselling begs having been summoned, it was settled to ride eastwards on Thursday the 10th of the month (_Jan. 21st_). (_jj. News of Badakhshān._)