wahhab and his younger brother gets theirs in well too. Mughfll though he did not know how to swim, had crossed the river holding to his horse's mane
I sent for my own boats which were behind ;* the Farmalsh coming up first, I went over in it to visit the Bengalis' encampinggrounds. I then went into the Gunjalsh. " Is there a crossingplace higher up ? " I asked. Mir Muhammad the raftsman represented that the Saru was better to cross higher up;2 accordingly the army-folk 3 were ordered to cross at the higher place he named.
While those led by Muhammad SI. Mlrza were crossing the river,4 the boat in which Yakka Khwaja was, sank and he went to God's mercy. His retainers and lands were bestowed on his younger brother Qasim Khwaja.
The Sultans arrived while I was making ablution for the Midday Prayer; I praised and thanked them and led them to expect guerdon and kindness. 'Askarl also came ; this was the first affair he had seen ; one well-omened for him!
As the camp had not yet crossed the river, I took my rest in the boat Gunjalsh, near an island.
(ax. Various incidents of the days following the battle.)
{May 6th) During the day of Friday (Sha'ban 27th) we landed
at a village named Kundlh 5 in the Nirhun pargana of Kharld on
the north side of the Saru.6
{May 8th) On Sundav (29th) Kukl was sent to Hajipur for
news.
' perhaps they were in the Burb-ganga channel, out of gun-fire. 3 If the Ghogra flowed at this point in a narrow channel, it would be the swifter, and less easy to cross than where in an open bed.
3 chirik-aili, a frequent compound, but one of which the use is better defined in the latter than the earlier part of Babur's writings to represent what then answered to an Army Service Corps. This corps now crosses into Saran and joins the fighting force.
4 This appears to refer to the crossing effected before the fight.
5 or Kundbah. I have not succeeded in finding this name in the Nirhun pargana ; it may have been at the southern end, near the "Domaigarh" of maps. In it was Tir-muhani, perhaps a village (f. 377, f. 381).
6 This passage justifies Erskine's surmise (Memoirs, p. 411, n. 4) that the Kharidcountry lay on both banks of the Ghogra- His further surmise that, on the east bank of the Ghogra, it extended to the Ganges would be correct also, since the Ganges flowed, in Babur's day, through the Burh-ganga (Old Ganges) channel along the southern edge of the present Kharid, and thus joined the Ghogra higher than it now does.
