933 AH. -OCT. 8th 1526 TO SEP. 27th 1537 AD. 585
(u. Illness and a tour.)
{August jrd) On Sunday the 5th of Zu'1-qa'da I fell ill ; the illness lasted 17 days.
(August 24th) On Friday the 24th of the same month we set out to visit Dulpur. That night I slept at a place half-way ; reached Sikandar's dam ' at dawn, and dismounted there.
At the end of the hill below the dam the rock is of buildingstone. I had Ustad Shah Muhammad the stone-cutter brought and gave him an order that if a house could be cut all in one piece in that rock, it was to be done, but that,if the rock were too low for a residence ('imdrat), it was to be levelled and have a reservoir, all in one piece, cut out of it.
From Dulpur we went on to. visit Barl. Next morning (August 26th) I rode out from Barl through the hills between it and the Chambal-river in order to view the river. This done I went back to Barl. In these hills, we saw the ebony-tree, the fruit of which people call tindii. It is said that there are white ebony-trees also and that moit ebony-trees in these hills are of this kind.2 On leaving Ban we went to Slkrl; we reached Agra on the 29th of the same month (August 28th).
(v. Doubts about Shaikh Bdyazid Farmuli.)
As in these days people were telling wild news about Shaikh Bayazld, SI. Qull Turk was sent to him to give him tryst3 in 20 days.
(w. Religious and metrical exercises?)
(August 28th) On Friday the 2nd of Zu'1-hijja I began what one is made to read 41 times.4
In these same days I cut up \taqti'~\ the following couplet of mine into 504 measures 5 :
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■ The two varieties mentioned by Babur seem to be Diospyrus melanoxylon, the wood of which is called tindu abnus in Hindustani, and D. tommtosa, Hindi, tindu (Brandis s.nn.). Barl is 19 m. west of Dulpur.
3 mi'ad, perhaps the time at which the Shaikh was to appear before Babur.
4 The Pers. trs. makes the more definite statement that what had to be read was a Section of the Qoran (wird). This was done with remedial aim for the illness.
5 As this statement needs comment, and as it is linked to matters mentioned in the Rampur Diwan, it seems better to remit remarks upon it to Appendix Q, Some matters concerning the Rampur Diwan.
