for Bihar began along the bank of Jun. After $iurolu (iom.) done, halt was made at Lawaln.1 I went by boat. The people of the army were crossing the Jun up to today. They were ordered to put the culverin-carts - which had been landed at Adampur, into boats again and to bring them on by water from Plag.
On this ground we set wrestlers to wrestle. Dost-i-yasin -khair gripped the boatman Champion of Lahor; the contest was stubborn ; it was with great difficulty that Dost gave the throw. A head-to-foot was bestowed on each.
{March 15th and 16th) People said that ahead of us was a swampy, muddy, evil river called Tus.3 In order to examine the ford * 4 and repair the road, we waited two days (Tuesday Ramzan 5th and Wednesday 6th) on this ground. For the horses and camels a ford was found higher up, but people said laden carts could not get through it because of its uneven, stony bottom. They were just ordered to get them through.
{March 17th) On Thursday {7th) we marched on. I myself went by boat down to where the Tus meets the Gang (Ganges), there landed, thence rode up the Tus, and, at the Other Prayer,
1 The march, beginning on the Jumna, is now along the united rivers.
* zarb-zanlik arabalar. Here the carts are those carrying the guns.
' From the particulars Babur gives about the.Tus (Tons) and Karma-nasa, it would seem that he had not passed them last year, an inference supported by what is known of his route in that year: He came from Gualiar to the Kanar-passage (f. 336), there crossed the Jumna and went direct to Qanauj (f. 335), above Qanauj bridged the Ganges, went on to Bangarmau (f. 338), crossed the Gumtl and went to near the junction of the Ghogra and Sarda (f. 338*). The next indication of his route is that he is at Baksara, but whether he reached it by water down the Ghogra, as his meeting with Muh. JAsl1 ruf Farmuli suggests (f. 377K or by land, nothing shews. From Baksara (f. 366) he went up-stream to Chausa (f. 365^), on perhaps to Sayyidpur, 2 m. from the mouth of the Gumtl, and there left the Ganges for Jiinpur (f. 365). I have found nothing about his return route to Agra ; it seems improbable that he would go so far south as to near Plag ; a more northerly and direct road to Fathpur and Sarai Baburpur may have been taken. Concerning Babur's acts in 934 ah. the following item, (met with since I was working on 934 ah. ), continues his statement (f. 338^) that he spent a few days near Aud (Ajodhya) to settle its affairs. The D. G. of Fyzdbaa (H. E. Nevill) p. 173 says " In 1528 ad. Babur came to Ajodhya (Aud) and halted a week. He destroyed Jthe ancient temple" (marking the birth-place of Rama) "and on its site built a mosque, still known as Babur's Mosque ... It has two inscriptions, one on the outside, one on the pulpit ; both are in Persian ; and bear the date 935 ah." This date maybe that of the completion of the building. {Corrigendum:^ On f. 339 n. 1, I have too narrowly restricted the use of the name Sarju. Babur used it to describe what the maps of Arrowsmith and Johnson shew, and not only what the Gazetteer of India map of the United Provinces does. It applies to the Sarda (f. 339' as Babur uses it when writing of the fords.) * Here the lacuna of the Hai. Codex ends.
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