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M., Nī-khūb (or, Bī-khūb) Sl. and Tardīka (or, Tardī \_yakka\_, \[Sidenote: Fol. 362b.\] champion). (\_Feb. 28th\_) On Monday (\_19th\_) \`Askarī also waited on me. They all came from the other side of Gang (Ganges). \`Askarī and his various forces were ordered to march along the other bank of the river keeping opposite the army on this side, and wherever our camp might be, to dismount just opposite it. (\_qq. News of the Afghāns.\_) While we were in these parts news came again and again that Sl. Maḥmūd (\_Lūdī\_) had collected 10,000 Afghāns; that he had detached Shaikh Bāyazīd and Bīban with a mass of men towards Sarwār \[Gorakhpūr\]; that he himself with Fatḥ Khān \_Sarwānī\_ was on his way along the river for Chunār; that Sher Khān \_Sūr\_ whom I had favoured last year with the gift of several \_parganas\_ and had left in charge of this neighbourhood,\[2507\] had joined these Afghāns who thereupon had made him and a few other amīrs cross the water; that Sl. Jalālu'd-dīn's man in Benares had not been able to hold that place, had fled, and got away; what he was understood to have said being, that he had left soldiers (\_sipahīlār\_) in Benares-fort and gone along the river to fight Sl. Maḥmūd.\[2508\] (\_rr. Incidents of the march resumed.\_) ### [935.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.8.2) (\_March 1st\_) Marching from Dugdugī (\_Tuesday, Jumāda II. 20th\_) the army did 6 \_kurohs\_ (12m.) and dismounted at Kusār,\[2509\] 3 or 4 \_kurohs\_ from Karrah. I went by boat. We stayed here 3 or 4 \[Sidenote: Fol. 363.\] days because of hospitality offered by Sl. Jalālu'd-dīn. (\_March 4th\_) On Friday (\_23rd\_), I dismounted at Sl. Jalālu'd-dīn's house inside Karrah-fort where, host-like, he served me a portion of cooked meat and other viands.\[2510\] After the meal, he and his sons were dressed in unlined coats (\_yaktāī jāmah\_) and short tunics (\_nīmcha\_).\[2511\] At his request his elder son was given the style Sl. Maḥmūd.\[2512\] On leaving Karrah, I rode about one \_kuroh\_ (2m.) and dismounted on the bank of Gang. Here letters were written and leave was given to Shahrak Beg who had come from Māhīm to our first camp on Gang (\_i.e.\_ Dugdugī). As Khwāja Yaḥyā's grandson Khwāja Kalān had been asking for the records I was writing,\[2513\] I sent him by Shahrak a copy I had had made. ### [935.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.8.3) (\_March 5th\_) On Saturday move was made at dawn (\_24th\_), I going by boat direct, and after 4 \_kurohs\_ done (8m.), halt was made at Koh.\[2514\] Our ground, being so near, was reached quite early. After awhile, we seated ourselves inside\[2515\] a boat where we ate \_ma\`jūn\_. We invited the honoured Khwāja \`Abdu'sh-shahīd\[2516\] who was said to be in Nūr Beg's quarters (\_awī\_), invited also Mullā Maḥmūd (\_Farābī\_?), bringing him from Mullā \`Alī Khān's. After staying for some time on that spot, we crossed the river, and on the other side, set wrestlers to wrestle. In opposition to the rule of gripping the strongest first, Dost-i-yāsīn-khair \[Sidenote: Fol. 363b.\] was told not to grapple with Champion Ṣādiq, but with others; he did so very well with eight. (\_ss. News of the Afghān enemy.\_) ### [935.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.8.4) At the Afternoon Prayer, Sl. Muḥammad the Pay-master came by boat from the other side of the river, bringing news that the army of Sl. Iskandar's son Maḥmūd Khān whom rebels style Sl. Maḥmūd,\[2517\] had broken up. The same news was brought in by a spy who had gone out at the Mid-day Prayer from where we were; and a dutiful letter, agreeing with what the spy had reported, came from Tāj Khān \_Sārang-khānī\_ between the Afternoon and Evening Prayers. Sl. Muḥammad gave the following particulars:—that the rebels on reaching Chunār seemed to have laid siege to it and to have done a little fighting, but had risen in disorderly fashion when they heard of our approach; that Afghāns who had crossed the river for Benares, had turned back in like disorder; that two of their boats had sunk in crossing and a body of their men been drowned. (\_tt. Incidents of the eastward march resumed.\_) (\_March 6th\_) After marching at Sunday's dawn (\_25th\_) and doing 6 \_kurohs\_ (12m.), Sīr-auliya,\[2518\] a \_pargana\_ of Pīāg\*\[2519\] was reached. I went direct by boat. Aīsan-tīmūr Sl. and Tūkhta-būghā Sl. had dismounted half-way, and were waiting to see me.\[2520\] I, for my part, invited them into the boat. Tūkhta-būghā Sl. must have wrought magic, for a bitter wind rose and rain began to fall. It became quite windy(?)\[2521\] on which account I ate \_ma\`jūn\_, although I had done so on the previous day. Having come to the encamping-ground....\[2522\] ### [935.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.8.5) (\_March 7th\_?) Next day (\_Monday 26th\_?) we remained on the same ground. (\_March 8th\_?) On Tuesday (\_27th\_?) we marched on. Opposite the camp was what may be an island,\[2523\] large and verdant. I went over by boat to visit it, returning to the boat during the 1st watch (6-9 a.m.). While I rode carelessly along the ravine (\_jar\_) of the river, my horse got to where it was fissured and had begun to give way. I leapt off at once and flung myself on the bank; even the horse did not go down; probably, however, if I had stayed on its back, it and I would have gone down together. On this same day, I swam the Gang-river (Ganges), counting every stroke;\[2524\] I crossed with 33, then, without resting, swam back. I had swum the other rivers, Gang had remained to do.\[2525\] We reached the meeting of the waters of Gang and Jūn at the Evening Prayer, had the boat drawn to the Pīāg side, and got to camp at 1 watch, 4 \_garīs\_ (10.30 p.m.). (\_March 9th\_) On Wednesday (\_Jumāda II. 28th\_) from the 1st watch onwards, the army began to cross the river Jūn; there were 420 boats.\[2526\] (\_March 11th\_) On Friday, the 1st of the month of Rajab, I crossed the river. ### [935.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.8.6) (\_March 14th\_) On Monday, the 4th of the month, the march for Bihār began along the bank of Jūn. After 5 \_kurohs\_ (10m.) done, halt was made at Lawāīn.\[2527\] I went by boat. The people of the army were crossing the Jūn up to today. They were ordered to put the culverin-carts\[2528\] which had been landed at Ādampūr, into boats again and to bring them on by water from Pīāg. On this ground we set wrestlers to wrestle. Dost-i-yāsīn-khair gripped the boatman Champion of Lāhor; the contest was stubborn; it was with great difficulty that Dost gave the throw. A head-to-foot was bestowed on each. (\_March 15th and 16th\_) People said that ahead of us was a swampy, muddy, evil river called Tūs.\[2529\] In order to examine the ford\*\[2530\] and repair the road, we waited two days (\_Tuesday Ramzān 5th and Wednesday 6th\_) on this ground. For the horses and camels a ford was found higher up, but people said laden carts could not get through it because of its uneven, stony bottom. \[Sidenote: Fol. 364.\] They were just ordered to get them through. (\_March 17th\_) On Thursday (\_7th\_) we marched on. I myself went by boat down to where the Tūs meets the Gang (Ganges), there landed, thence rode up the Tūs, and, at the Other Prayer, reached where the army had encamped after crossing the ford. Today 6 \_kurohs\_ (12 m.) were done. (\_March 18th\_) Next day (\_Friday 8th\_), we stayed on that ground. (\_March 19th\_) On Saturday (\_9th\_), we marched 12 \_kurohs\_ and got to the bank of Gang again at Nulibā.\[2531\] ### [935.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.8.7) (\_March 20th\_) Marching on (\_Sunday 10th\_), we did 6 \_kurohs\_ of road, and dismounted at Kintit.\[2532\] (\_March 21st\_) Marching on (\_Monday 11th\_), we dismounted at Nānāpur.\[2533\] Tāj Khān \_Sārang-khānī\_ came from Chunār to this ground with his two young sons, and waited on me. In these days a dutiful letter came from Pay-master Sl. Muḥammad, saying that my family and train were understood to be really on their way from Kābul.\[2534\] (\_March 23rd\_) On Wednesday (\_13th\_) we marched from that ground. I visited the fort of Chunār, and dismounted about one \_kuroh\_ beyond it. During the days we were marching from Pīāg, painful boils had come out on my body. While we were on this ground, an Ottoman Turk (Rūmī) used a remedy which had been recently discovered in Rūm. He boiled pepper in a pipkin; I held the sores in the steam and, after steaming ceased, laved them with the hot water. The treatment lasted 2 sidereal hours. While we were on this ground, a person said he had seen tiger and rhinoceros on an \_ārāl\_\[2535\] by the side of the camp. (\_March 24th\_?) In the morning (\_14th\_?), we made the hunting-circle\[2536\] \[Sidenote: Fol. 364b.\] on that \_ārāl\_, elephants also being brought. Neither tiger nor rhino appeared; one wild buffalo came out at the end of the line. A bitter wind rising and the whirling dust being very troublesome, I went back to the boat and in it to the camp which was 2 \_kurohs\_ (4m.) above Banāras. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.935.8) · Pramāṇa