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932 AH. OCT. 18th 1525 TO OCT. 8th 1526 AD. 533
well with a flight of steps, which in Hindustan is called a warn.1, * This well was begun before the Char-bagh2; they were busydigging it in the true Rains ('am bishkdl, Sawan and Bhadon); it fell in several times and buried the hired workmen ; it was finished after the Holy Battle with Rana Sanga, as is stated in the inscription on the stone that bears the chronogram of its completion. It is a complete wain, having a three-storeyed house in it. The lowest storey consists of three rooms, each of which opens on the descending steps, at intervals of three steps from one another. When the water is at its lowest, it is one step below the bottom chamber; when it rises in the Rains, it sometimes goes into the top storey. In the middle storey an inner chamber has been excavated which connects with the domed building in which the bullock turns the well-wheel. The top storey is a single room, reached from two sides by 5 or 6 steps which lead down to it from the enclosure overlooked from the well-head. Facing the right-hand way down, is the stone inscribed with the date of completion. At the side of this well is another the bottom of which may be at half the depth of the first, and into which water comes from that first one when the bullock turns the wheel in the domed building afore-mentioned. This second well also is fitted with a wheel, by means of which water is carried along the ramparts to the high-garden. A stone building {tashdin 'imdrat) stands at the mouth of the well and there is an outer (?) mosque 3 outside (tdshqdrt) the enclosure in which the well is. The mosque is not well done ; it is in the Hindustani fashion.
(ยป. Humdyiiri's campaign?)
At the time Humayun got to horse, the rebel amirs under Naslr Khan Nuhani and Ma'ruf Farmuli were assembled at Jajmau.4 Arrived within 20 to 30 miles of them, he sent out
* The more familiar Indian name is baoli. Such wells attracted Peter Mundy's attention ; Yule gives an account of their names and plan (Mundy's 7raz>e/s in Asia, Hakluyt Society, ed. R. C. Temple, and Yule's Hobson Jobson s.n. Bowly). Babur's account of his great wain is not easy to translate ; his interpreters vary from one another ; probably no one of them has felt assured of translating correctly.
2 i.e. the one across the river.
3 task mas/id; this, unless some adjectival affix (e.g. din) has been omitted by the scribe, I incline to read as meaning extra, supplementary, or outer, not as "mosqueof-stone ".
4 or Jajmawa, the old name for the sub-district of Kanhpur (Cawnpur).
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