vii. The followers who gathered to him were not ' more than 300' but between 2 and 300.
viii. The '3 days,' and the 'day and two nights,' and the ' 5 days' journey was one of some 70 miles, and one recorded as made in far less time.
ix. The passage is singularly inadequate to fill a gap of 14 to 16 months, during which events of the first importance occurred to Babur and to the Chaghatal dynasty.
x. Khwaja AhrdrTs promises did nothing to fulfil Babur's wishes for 908 ah. while those of Ya'qub for immediate victory were closely followed by defeat and exile. Babur knew the facts; the passage cannot be his. It looks as though the writer saw Babur in Karnan across Tlmurid success in Hindustan.
xi. The style and wording of the passage are not in harmony with those of the true text.
Other reasons for rejection are marked change in choice of the details chosen for commemoration, e.g. when Babur mentions prayer, he does so simply; when he tells a dream, it seems a real one. The passage leaves the impression that the writer did not think in Turki, composed in it with difficulty, and looked at life from another view-point than Babur's.
On these various grounds, we have come to the conclusion that it is no part of the Bdbur-ndma.
