caused me one vexation, such a jest doubled it.1 I composed the following off-hand verse, wrote it down and sent it to him : -
Give a hundred thanks, Babur, that the generous Pardoner Has given thee Sind and Hind and many a kingdom. If thou (i.e. the Khwaja) have not the strength for their heats, If thou say, "Let me see the cold side (yuz)" Ghazni is there."
{/. Accretions to Babur's force?)
At this juncture, Mulla Apaq was sent into Kul with royal letters of favour for the soldiers and quiver-wearers {tarkashband) of that neighbourhood. Shaikh Guran (G'hflran)3 came
(Author's note on Mulla Apaq.) Formerly he had been in a very low position indeed, but two or three years before this time, had gathered his elder and younger brethren into a compact body and had brought them in (to me), together with the Auruq-zal and other Afghans of the banks of the Sind.
trustfully and loyally to do obeisance, bringing with him from
2 to 3,ooo soldiers and quiver-wearers from Between-two-
waters (Midn-dii-db).
Yunas-i-'ali when on his way from Dihll to Agra4 had lost
his way a little and got separated from Humayun ; he then met
in with 'All Khan Farmuli's sons and train,5 had a small affair
with them, took them prisoners and brought them in. Taking
advantage of this, one of the sons thus captured was sent to his
father in company with Daulat-qadam Turk's son Mlrza Mughul
who conveyed royal letters of favour to 'All Khan. At this
time of break-up, 'All Khan had gone to Mlwat; he came to
' The friends did not meet again ; that their friendship weathered this storm is shewn by Babur's letter off. 359. The Abushqa says the couplet was inscribed on a marble tablet near the Hauz-i-khas at the time the Khwaja was in Dihll after bidding Babur farewell in Agra.
2 This quatrain is in the Rampur Dlwan (q.v. index). The Abushqa quotes the following as Khwaja Kalan's reply, but without mentioning where the original was found. Cf. de Courteille, Diet. s.n. taskarl. An English version is given in my husband's article Some verses by the Emperor Babur (A.Q. R. January, 1911).
You shew your gaiety and your .wit,
In each word there lie acres of charm.
Were not all things of Hind upside-down,
How could you in the heat be so pleasant on cold ? It is an old remark of travellers that everything in" India is the opposite of what one sees elsewhere. Thnfir is said to have remarked it'and to have told his soldiers not to be afraid of the elephants of India, "For," said he, "their trunks are empty sleeves, and they carry their tails in front; in Hindustan everything is reversed " (H. Beveridge ibid.). Cf. App. Q.
3 Badayuni i, 337 speaks of him as unrivalled in music. * f. 26yb.
5 auruq, which here no doubt represents the women of the family.
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