935 AH. SEP. 15th 1528 TO SEP. 5th 1529 AD. 645
Several remaining letters for Kabul were written on this same ground. One to Humayun was to this purport: If the work ^ave not yet been done satisfactorily, stop the raiders and thieves thyself; do not let them embroil the peace now descending amongst the peoples.1 Again, there was this : I have made Kabul a crown-domain, let no son of mine covet it. Again: that I had summoned Hind-al.
Kamran, for his part, was written to about taking the best of care in intercourse with the ShSh-zada,2 about my bestowal on himself of M ultan, making Kabul a crown-domain, and the coming of my family and train.3
As my letter to Khwaja Kaian makes several particulars known, it is copied in here without alteration : 4
[Copy of a Letter to Khwaja Kalan.] " After saying ' Salutation to Khwaja Kalan', the first matter is that Shamsu'd-din Muhammad has reached Etawa, and that the particulars about Kabul are known."
" Boundless and infinite is my desire to go to those parts.5 Matters are coming to some sort of settlement in Hindustan ; there is hope, through the Most High, that the work here will soon be arranged. This work brought to order, God willing ! my start will be made at once."
" How should a person forget the pleasant things of those countries, especially one who has repented and vowed to sin no more? How should he banish from his mind the permitted flavours of melons and grapes ? Taking this opportunity,6
Saral Baburpur from having been Babur's halting-place. They are 24m. to the s.er of Etawa, on the old road for Kalpi. Near the name Baburpur in the Gazetteer Map there is Muhuri (MurJ ?); there is little or no doubt that Saral Baburpur represents the camping-ground Murl-and-Adusa.
* This connects with Kitin-qara's complaints of the frontier-begs (f. 361), and with the talk of peace (f. 356*).
2 This injunction may connect with the desired peace ; it will have been prompted by at least a doubt in Babur's mind as to Kamran's behaviour perhaps e.g. in manifested dislike for a Shia'. Concerning the style Shah-zada see f. 358, p. 643, n. I.
3 Kamran's mother Gul-rukh Begcluk will have been of the party who will have tried in Kabul to forward her son's interests.
4 f. 348, p. 624, n. 2.
5 Kabul and Tramontana.
6 Presumably that of Shamsu'd-din Muhammad's mission. One of Babur's couplets expresses longing for the fruits, and also for the "running waters", of lands other than Hindustan, with conceits recalling those of his English contemporaries in verse, as indeed do several others of his short poems (Rampur Divjati Plate xvii A.).
