The Memoirs of Bābur 1.4

1.4

Marching thence rather late, about noon-day prayers, we reached Kaldah-kahar, where we halted. This Kaldah-kahar is a considerable place. * * * At dawn we set out from Kaldah-kahar. On the very top of the Pass of Hambatu we met in different places men who were coming bringing in peshhashes of small value, and tendering their submission. * * * About luncheon time we reached the bottom of the pass, where we halted. * * * Having cleared the pass, and emerged from the wooded ground, I formed the army in regular array, with right and left wing and centre, and marched towards Bahrah. When we had nearly reached that place, Deo Hindu, and the son of Saktu, who were servants of 'Ali Khan, the son of Daulat Khan Yusuf Khail, accompanied by the head men of Bahrah, met us, bringing each a horse and camel as peshkash, and tendered their submission and service. Noon-day prayers were over when we halted to the east of Bahrah, on the banks of the river Behat, on a green field of grass, without having done the people of Bahrah the least injury or damage. From the time that Timur Beg had invaded Hindustan and again left it, these countries of Bahrah, Khushab, Chinab, and Chaniut had remained in the possession of the family of Timur Beg, and of their dependents and adherents. Sultan Mas'ud Mirza, the grandson of Shah Rukh Mirza, and son of Siurghatmish Mirza, was, in those days, the ruler and chief of Kabul and Zabul, on which account he got the title of Sultan Mas'ud Kabuli. * * *