935 AH. SEP. 15th 1528 TO SEP. 5th 1529 AD 68
(III. The westward march resumed.)
{May 31si) Those who marched early (Tuesday, Ramzdn 23rd), having lost their way, went to the great lake of Fathpuf (P).1 People were sent galloping off to fetch back such as were near and Klchik Khwaja was ordered to spend the night on the lakeshore and to bring the rest on next morning to join the camp. We marched at dawn ; I got into the Asalsh half-way and had it towed to our ground higher up,
Unrmn. Details of the capture of a fort by Biban ynd Bdyazid.)
On the way up, Khalifa brought Shah Muhammad diwdna's son who had come from Baql bringing this reliable news about Luknur 2 : 'They {i.e. Blban and Bayazid) hurled their assault on Saturday the 13th of the month Ramzan {May 21st) but could do nothing by fighting ; while the fighting was going on, a collection of wood-chips, hay, and thorns in the fort took fire, so that inside*the Walls it became as hot as an oven {tanurdik tafsari); the garrison could not move round the rampart; the fort was lost. When the enemy heard, two or three days later, of our return (westwards), he fled towards Dalmau.3
Today after doing as much as 10kurohs (20m.), we dismounted beside a village called jalisir,4 on the Saru-bank, in the Sagrl pargdna.
{fune 1st) We stayed on the same ground through Wednesday {2^th), in order to rest our cattle.
{nnn. Dispositions against Biban and Bdyazid.)
Some said they had heard that Biban and Bayazid had crossed Gang, and thought of withdrawing themselves to their kinsfolk
1 Here, as earlier, Nathpur suits the context better than Fathpur. In the Nathpur pargana, at a distance from Chaupara approximately suiting Babur's statement of distance, is the lake " Tal Ratoi", formerly larger and deeper than now. There is a second further west and now larger than Tal Ratoi ; through this the Ghogra once flowed, and through it has tried within the last half-century to break, back. These changes in Tal Ratoi and in the course of the Ghogra dictate caution in attempting to locate places which were on it in Babur's day e.g. K:l:r:h (sufra).
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3 This name has the following variants intheHai. MS. and in Kefir's: Dalm-u-uu -iir-ud-ut The place was in Akbar's sarkar of Manikpur and is now in the Rai Bareilly district .
( 4 Perhaps Chaksar, which was in Akbar's sarkar of Junpur, and is now in the Azamgarh district.
