932 AH. OCT. 18th 1525 to OCT. 8th 1526 AD. 447
{Nov. 25th) On Saturday we dismounted in the Bagh-i-wafa. We delayed there a few days, waiting for Humayun and the army from that side.1 More than once in this history the bounds and extent, charm and delight of that garden have been described; it is most beautifully placed ; who sees it with the buyer's eye will know the sort of place it is. During the^short time we were there, most people drank on drinking-days2 and took their morning; on non-drinking days there were parties for ma'jun.
I wrote harsh .letters to Humayun, lecturing him severely because of his long delay beyond the time fixed for him to join me.3
(Dec. jrd) On Sunday the 17th of Safar, after the morning had been taken, Humayun arrived. I spoke very severely to him at once. Khwaja Kalan also arrived to-day, coming up from GhaznI. We marched in the evening of that same Sunday, and dismounted in a new garden between Sultanpur and Khwaja Rustam.
(Dec. 6th) Marching on Wednesday (Safar 20th), we got on a raft, and, drinking as we went reached Qush-gumbaz,4 there landed and ioined the camp.
reading of the word, quotes Burnes' account of an affection common in the Panj-ab and there called nuzla, which is a running at the nostrils, that wastes the brain and stamina of the body and ends fatally (Travels in Bukhara ed. 1839, ii, 41).
1 Tramontana, north of Hindu-kush.
3 Shaikh Zain says that the drinking days were Saturday, aunday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
3 The Elph. Codex (f. 208*) contains the following note of Humayun's about his delay; it has been expunged from the text but is still fairly legible : "The time fixed was after 'Ashiira (10th Muharram, a voluntary fast); although we arrived after the next-following 10th ('ashiir, i.e. of Safar), the delay had been necessary. The purpose of the letters (Babur's) was to get information ; (in reply) it was represented that the equipment of the army of Badakhshan caused delay. If this slave (Humayun), trusting to his [father's] kindness, caused further delay, he has been sorry."
Babur's march from the Bagh-i-wafa was delayed about a month; Humayun started late from Badakhshan; his force may have needed some stay in Kabul for completion of equipment; his personal share of blame for which he counted on his father's forgiveness, is likely to have been connected with his mother's presence in Kabul.
Humayun's note is quoted in Turkl by one MS. of the Persian text (B.M. W.-i-B. 6,623 f- 128); and from certain indications in Muhammad SAirazl's lithograph (p- '63), appears to be in his archetype the Udaipur Codex; but it is not with all MSS. of the Persian text e.g. not with I.O. 217 and 218. A portion of it is in Kehr's MS. (p. 1086)
4 Biid's-dome [f. 145*, n.] or The pair (qush) of domes.
