680
HINDUSTAN
(20m.) dismounted on the Saru in a village called Kilirah(?) dependent on Fathpur.1
{kkk. A surmised survival of the record of 934. am.2)
* After spending several days pleasantly in that place where there are gardens, running-waters, well-designed buildings, trees, particularly mango-trees, and various birds of coloured plumage, I ordered the march to be towards Ghazlpur. 0
Isma'Il Khan falwani and 'Alaul Khan Nuhani had it represented to me that they would come to Agra after seeing their native land {watn). On this the command was, " I will give an order in a month."* 3
same about Bihar and Sarwar, no doubt because he has replaced in Bihar, as his tribu. taries, the Nuhani chiefs and has settled other Afghans, Jalwanis and Farmulis in a Sarwar cleared of the Jalwanl (?) rebel Biban and the Karmull opponents Bayazid and Ma'ruf. The Farmull Shaikh-zadas, it may be recalled, belonged by descent to Babur's Kabul district of Farmul. The Waqi'at-i-mushtaql (E. & D.'s H. of I. iv, 548) details the position of the clan under Sikandar Ludi.
' The MSS. write Fathpur but Nathpur suits the context, a pargana mentioned in the Ayin-i-akbari and now in the 'Azamgarh district. There seems to be no Fathpur within Babur's limit of distance. The D. G. of 'Azamgarh mentions two now insignificant FathpurS, one as having a school, the other a market. The name G:l:r:h (K: 1: r: h) I have not found.
2 The passage contained in this section seems to be a survival of the lost record of 934 ah. (f. 339). I have found it only in the Memoirs p. 420, and in Mr. Erskine's own Codex of the Waqi'al-i-baburi (now B. M. Add. 26,200), f. 371 where however several circumstances isolate it from the context. It may he a Persian translation of an authentic Turk! fragment, found, perhaps with other such fragments, in the Royal Library. Its wording disassociates it from the 'Abdu'r-rahim text. The Codex (No. 26,200) breaks off at the foot of a page (supra, Fathpur) with a completed sentence. The supposedly-misplaced passage is entered on the next folio as a sort of ending of the Babur-nama writings ; in a rough script, inferior to that of the Codex, and is followed by Tarn, tarn (Finis), and an incomplete date 98-, in words. Beneath this a line is drawn, on which is subtended the triangle frequent with scribes; within this is what seems to be a completion^ the date to 980 ah. and a pious wish, scrawled in an even rougher hand than the rest. Not only in diction and in script but in contents also the passage is a misfit where it now stands ; it can hardly describe a village on the Saru ; Babur in 935 ah. did not march for Ghazlpur but may have done so in 934 ah. (p. 656, n. 3); Isma'il Jalwanl had had leave given already in-935 AH. (f. 377) under other conditions, ones bespeaking more trust and tried allegiance. Possibly the place described as having fine buildings, gardens etc. is Aud (Ajodhya) where Babur spent some days in 934 AH. (cf. f. 363*, p. 655 n. 3). * x- 3 " Here my Persian manuscript closes" (Thisis B.M. Add. 26,200). "Thetwo additional fragments are given from Mr. Metcalfe's manuscript alone " (now B- M. Add. 26,202) "and unluckily, it is extremely incorrect" (Erskine). This note will have been written perhaps a decade before 1826, in which year the Memoirs of Babur was published, after long delay. Mr. Erskine's own Codex (No. 26,200) was made good at a later date, perhaps when he was working on his History of India (pub. 1854), by a well-written supplement which carries the diary to its usual end s.a. 936 ah. and also gives Persian translations of Babur's letters to Humayun and Khwaja Kalan.
