935 AH. SEP. 15th 1528 TO SEP. 5th 1529 AD. 615
visited a Hot-bath which Abu'1-fath had made, rode on, and dismounted at the dam-head where the new Char-bagh is in making.
{Oct. 5tJC) Having stayed the night there, at dawn {Monday 20th) I visited what places had been ordered made.1 The face (yiis) of the roofed-tank, ordered cut in the solid rock, was not being got up quite straight ; more stone-cutters were sent for who were to make the tank-bottom level, pour in water, and, by help of the water, to get the sides to one height. They got the face up straight just before the Other Prayer, were then ordered to fill the tank with water, by help of the water made the sides match, then busied themselves to smooth them. I ordered a water-chamber {ab-khana) made at a place where it would be cut in the solid rock ; inside it was to be a small tank also cut in the solid rock.
{Here the record of 6 days is wanting?} 2
{Oct. 12th?) To-day, Monday{2~th ?),there was a ma'jiin party. {Oct. 13th) On Tuesday I was still in that same place. {Oct. 14th) On the night of Wednesday,3, after opening the mouth and eating something4 we rode for Sikrl. Near the second watch (midnight), we dismounted somewhere and slept; I myself could not sleep on account of pain in my ear, whether caused by cold, as is likely, I do not know. At the top of the dawn, we bestirred ourselves from that place, and in the first watch dismounted at
' f. 330,5 and f. 339^.
J Between the last explicit date in the text, viz. Sunday, Muh. 19th, and the one next following, vis. Saturday, Safar 3rd, the diary of six days is wanting. The gap seems to be between the unfinished account of doings in Dhulpur and the incomplete one of those of the Monday of the party. For one of the intermediate days Babur had made an appointment, when in Guiliar (f. 343), with the envoys of Bikramajit, the trysting-day being Muh. 23rd (i.e. 9 days after Muh. 14th). Babur is likely to have gone to Biana as planned ; that envoys met him there may be surmised from the circumstance that when negociations with Bikramajit were renewed in Agra (f. 345), two sets of envoys were present, a '' former " one and a '' later " one, and this although all envoys had been dismissed from Gualiar. The "former" ones will have been those who went to Biana, were not given leave there, but were brought on to Agra ; the "later" ones may have come to Agra direct from Ranthambhor. It suits all round to take it that pages have been lost on which was the record of the end of the Dhulpur visit, of the journey to the, as yet unseen, fort of Biana, of tryst kept by the envoys, of other doings in Biana where, judging from the time taken to reach Sikrl, it may be that the ma'jiin party was held.
3 Anglicti, Tuesday after 6 p.m.
* aghaz aichib nima yib, which words seem to imply the breaking of a fast.
