Ch. 3: Hindustan

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	650 HINDUSTAN

	{Feb. 14-th) On Monday (5th) we did \\kurohs (28m.), and dismounted in Chaparkada ' one of the parganas of Kalpl. {Feb. 15th) At the dawn of Tuesday (6th), a Hindustani servant of Qaracha's arrived who had taken a command (farmdn) from Mahlm to Qaracha from which it was understood that she was on the road. She had summoned escort from people in Lahor, Bhira and those parts in the fashion I formerly wrote orders (parwdnas) with my own hand. Her command had been written in Kabul on the 7th of the 1st Jumada (Jan. 17th).² (Feb. 16th) On Wednesday ("th) we did Jkurohs (14m.), and dismounted in the Adampur pargana? Today I mounted before dawn, took the road ⁴ alone, reached the Jun (Jumna), and went on along its bank. When I came opposite to Adampur, I had awnings set up on an island (drat) near the camp and seated there, ate ma'jiin. Today we set Sadiq to wrestle with Kalal who had come to Agra with a challenge.⁵ In Agra he had asked respite for 20 days on the plea of fatigue from his journey ; as now 40-50 days had passed since the end of his respite, he was obliged to wrestle. Sadiq did very well, throwing him easily. Sadiq was given 10,000 tankas, a saddled horse, a head-to-foot, and a jacket with buttons; while Kalal, to save him from despair, was given 3000 tankas, spite of his fall. % ¹ This will be Chaparghatta on the Dirapur-Bhognlpur-Chaparghatta-Musanagar road, the affixes kada and ghatta both meaning house, temple, etc. * Mahim, and with her the child Gul-badan, came in advance of the main body of women. Babur seems to refer again to her assumption of royal style by calling her Wall, Governor (f. 369 and n.). It is unusualthat no march or halt is recorded on this day. ³ or, Arampur. We have not succeeded in finding this place ; it seems to have been on the west bank of the Jumna, since twice Babur when on the east bank, writes of coming opposite to it (supra and f. 379). If no move was made on Tuesday, Jumada II. 6th (cf. last note), the distance entered as done on Wednesday would locate the halting-place somewhere near the Akbarpur of later name, which stands on a road and at a ferry. But if the army did a stage on Tuesday, of which Babur ofnits mention, Wednesday's march might well bring him opposite to Hamirpur and to the " Rampur "-ferry. The verbal approximation of Arampur and "Rampur" arrests attention. Local encroachment by the river, which is recorded in the District Gazetteers, may have something to do with the disappearance from these most useful books and from maps, of pargana Adampur (or, Arampur). * tushlab. It suits best here, since solitude is the speciality of £he excursion, to read tiishmak as meaning to take the road, Fr. cheminer. , ⁵ da'wi ilia; A/ems. p. 404, challenge; Mints, ii, 391, il avail fait des fafons, a truth probably, but one inferred only.

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