into which no light comes from any side. When Rahim-dad settled down in Bikramajlt's buildings, he made a rather small hall \klclilkrdq tdldrghina] on the top of this dome.1 From Bikramajlt's buildings a road has been made to his father's, a road such that nothing is seen of it from outside and nothing known of it inside, a quite enclosed road.2
After visiting these buildings, we rode to a college Rahim-dad had made by the side of a large tank, there enjoyed a flowergarden 3 he had laid out, and went late to where the camp was in the Charbagh.
(/. Rahim-dad sflower-garden?)
Rahim-dad has planted a great numbers of flowers in his garden (jbaghcha), many being beautiful red oleanders. In these places the oleander-flower is peach,4 those of Guallar are beautiful, deep red. I took some of them to Agra and had them planted in gardens there. On the south of the garden is a large lake 5 where the waters of the Rains gather ; on the west of it is a lofty idol-house,6 side by side with which SI. Shihabu'd-dln Ailtmlsh (Altamsh) made a-Friday mosque ; this is a very lofty building ('tmdrat), the highest in the fort ; it is seen, with the fort, from the Dulpur-hill (dr. 30 m. away). People say the stone for it was cut out and brought from the large lake above-mentioned. RahTm-dad has made a wooden (yighdch) tdldr in his garden, and
had been altered before Babur saw it but as it was only about 10 years old at that time, it was in its first form, presumably. Perhaps Babur saw it in a bad light. The dimensions Cunningham gives of it suggest that the high dome must have been frequently ill-lighted.
' The word tiilar, having various applications, is not easy to match with a single English word, nor can one be sure in all cases what it means, a platform, a hall, or etc. To find an equivalent for its diminutive talar-ghina is still more difficult. Rahim-dad's ta/ar-ette will have stood on the flat centre of the dome, raised on four pillars or perhaps with its roof only so-raised ; one is sure there would be a roof as protection against sun or moon. It may be noted that the dome is not visible outside from below, but is hidden by the continuation upwards of walls which form a meanlooking parallelogram of masonry.
* T. tnrynl. Concerning this hidden road see Cunningham p. 350 and Plate lxxxvii.
3 baghcha. The context shews that the garden was for flowers. For Babur's distinctions between baghcha, bagh and baghdt, see Index s.nn.
4 shaft-dlu i.e. the rosy colour of peach-flowers, perhaps lip-red (Steingass). Babur's contrast seems to be between those red oleanders of Hindustan that are rosyred, and the deep red ones he found in Guallar.
5 hd, any large sheet of water, natural or artificial (Babur). This one will be the Suraj-kund (Sun-tank).
6 This is the Teli Mandir, or Telingana Mandir (Luard). Cf. Cunningham, p. 35^ and Luard p. 227 for accounts of it; and G. of I. s.n. Teliagarhi for Tel! Rajas.
