(o. 'A/am Kkdn takes refuge with Bdbur.)
The light troop we had sent out from Milwat (Malot), took Hurur, Kahlur and all the hill-forts of the neighbourhood places to which because of their strength, no-one seemed to have gone for a long time and came back to me after plundering a little. Came also Alam Khan, on foot, ruined, stripped bare. We sent some of the begs to give him honourable meeting, sent horses too, and he waited {inaldsamat qildi) in that neighbourhood.1
Raiders of ours went into the hills and valleys round-about, but after a few nights' absence, came back without anything to count. Shah Mir Husain, Jan Beg and a few of the braves asked leave and went off for a raid.
{p. Incidents of the march for Pdni-pat.)
While we were in the (Jaswan) dun, dutiful letters had come more than once from Ismail Jilwant and Biban ; we replied to them from this place by royal letters such as their hearts desired. After we got out of the dale to Rdpar, it rained very much and became so cold that a mass of starved and naked Hindustanis died.
When we had left Rupar and were dismounted at Karal,2 opposite Sihrind, a Hindustani Goming said, " I am SI. Ibrahim's envoy," and though he had no letter or credentials, asked for an envoy from us. We responded at once by sending one or two Sawadl night-guards (tunqitar)? These humble persons Ibrahim put in prison ; they made their escape and came back to us on the very day we beat him.
After having halted one night on the way, we dismounted on the bank of the torrent4 of Banur and Sanur. Great rivers
' These incidents are included in the summary of 'Alam Khan's affairs in section / (f. 2$$/i). It will be observed that Babur's wording implies the " waiting" by one of lower rank on a superior.
= Elph. MS. Karnal, obviously a clerical error.
3 Shaikh Sulaiman Effendi (Kunos) describes a titnqitar ns, the guardian in war of a prince's tent; a night-guard ; and as one who repeats a prayer aloud while a prince is mounting.
4 rftet, which, inappropriate for the lower course of the Ghaggar, may be due to Babur's visit to its upper course described immediately below. As has been noted, however, he uses the word rud to describe the empty bed of a mountain-stream as well as the swift water sometimes filling that bed. The account, here-following, of his visit to the upper course of the Ghaggar is somewhat difficult to translate.
