The Memoirs of Bābur 5.12

5.12

Intelligence arrived again and again that the insurgents had passed the Sarú and Gogra, and were marching on Lucknow. * * * On Friday, the 19th Ramazan, I received letters announcing the taking of Lucknow. It appeared that on Saturday, the 13th of Ramazán, the enemy had made an attack, but could effect nothing. During the assault, some hay that had been collected, being set on fire by the fireworks, turpentine, and other combustibles that were thrown on it, the inside of the fort became as hot as an oven, and it was impossible to stand on the parapet, and consequently the fort was taken. Two or three days afterwards, on hearing of my return, the enemy marched towards Dalamu. This day also, we advanced ten kos, and halted hard by a village named Jalesar, in the pargana of Sikri, on the banks of the river Saru. * * * On the 18th Shawwal, I at midnight reached the garden of the Hasht-bihisht at Agra. [Shortly after this, with the 3rd Muharram, 936, Babar's Memoirs come to an abrupt termination.]