935 AH. SEP. 15TH 1528 TO SEP. 5th 1529 AD. 613
(925 AH. 1519 AD.) he possessed a famous crown-cap {tdj-kula) and golden belt, accepting which Sanga let him go free. That crown-cap and golden belt must have become Bikramajit's ; his elder brother Ratan-sl, now Rana of Chitur in his father's place, had asked for them but Bikramajit had not given them up,1.and now made the men he sent to me, speak to me about them, and ask for Blana in place of Rantanbur. We led them away from the Blana question and promised Shamsabad in exchange for Rantanbur. To-day {Muh. 14th) they were given a nine days' tryst for Blana, were dressed in robes of honour, and allowed to go.
(*'. Hindu temples visited?)
We rode from the flower-garden to visit the idol-houses of Guallar. Some are two, and some are three storeys high, each storey rather low, in the ancient fashion. On their stone plinths (izdra) are sculptured images. Some idol-houses, College-fashion, have a portico, large high cupolas 2 and madrdsa-like cells, each topped by a slender stone cupola.3 In the lower cells are idols carved in the rock.
After enjoying the sight of these buildings {'imdratldr) we left the fort by the south Gate,4 made an excursion to the south, and went (north) to the Char-bagh Rahim-dad had made over-against the Hatl-pul.- He had prepared a feast of cooked-meat {ash) for us and, after setting excellent food before us, made offering of a mass of goods and coin worth 4 laks. From his Char-bagh I rode to my own.
\J. Excursion to a waterfall.)
{Sep. sotk.) On Wednesday the 15th of the month I went to see a waterfall 6 kurohs (12 m.) to the south-east of Gualiar. Less
1 The Mirat-i-sikandarl (lith. ed. p. 234, Bayley's trs. p. 372) confirms Babur's statement that the precious things were at Bikramajit's disposition. Perhaps they had been in his mother's charge during her husband's life. They were given later to Bahadur Shah of Gujrat.
' The TelfMandlr has not a cupola but a waggon-roof of South Indian style, whence it may be that it has the southern name Telingana, suggested by Col. Luard.
3 See Luard's Photo. No. 139 and P. Mund/s sketch of the fort p. 62.
4 This will be the Ghargaraj-gate which looks south though it is not at the south end of the fort-hill where there is only a postern approached by a flight of stone steps (Cunningham p. 332).
5 The garden will have been on the lower ground at the foot of the ramp and not "ear the Hatl-pul itself where the scarp is precipitous.
