Category: Biographies
Babur's civilian aptitudes, whether of the author and penman, the maker of gardens, the artist, craftsman or sportsman, were nourished in a fertile soil of family tradition and example. Little about his teaching and training is now with his mutilated book, little indeed of any...
The fame and long literary services of the _Memoirs of Baber_ compel me to explain why these volumes of mine contain a verbally new English translation of the _Babur-nama_ inste...
12. xi. The style and wording of the passage are not in harmonyOther reasons for rejection are marked change in choice of the details chosen for commemoration, _e.g._ when Bābur mentions prayer, he does so simply; when he tells a dream, it...
13. Part III;Military:—+Armies, size of+:—Maḥmūd (Ghazni) 479; Shihābu'd-dīn _Ghurī_ 480; Aūz-beg 480; Daulat Khān _Lūdī_ 451; Bābur, Qandahār 334, Bhīra 480, Pānipat 452-80; Ibrahim _Lūdī_...
14. Part III;ITS DESCENDANTS AND OFFTAKES Table lvii;— (_a_) Petrograd F. O. Codex (_an indirect copy_ (?)), described by purchaser as _Bābur-nāma_, Preface xliii-iv; (_b_) Pet. F. O. School...
5. Part II. Work on the Hindustan MSS.My latest definite information about Babur's autograph MS. comes from the _Padshah-nama_ (Bib. Ind. ed. ii, 4), whose author saw it in Shah-i-jahan's private library between 162...
15. Book II, Story i. Eastwick translates it and its immediate context"People follow the faith of their kings. My heart is like a tulip scorched and by sighings flame; In all thou seest, their hearts are scorched and stained the same." (H.B.)
2. CHAPTER II.Losses from the text of Babur's book are the more disastrous because it truly embodies his career. For it has the rare distinction of being contemporary with the events it descr...
6. Part III. The "Bukhara Babur-nama".This is a singular book and has had a career as singular as its characteristics, a very comedy of (blameless) errors and mischance. For it is a compilation of items diverse in o...
1. CHAPTER I.Babur's civilian aptitudes, whether of the author and penman, the maker of gardens, the artist, craftsman or sportsman, were nourished in a fertile soil of family tradition and...
4. Part I. The MSS. themselves._Preliminary._—Much of the information given below was published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1900 onwards, as it came into my possession during a search for...
16. part 2, p. 288), but its index contains many referencesseemingly to the same man as Khwāja Abū'l-husain _Turbati_. The P. N. says the book which it entitles _Wāqi`āt-i-ṣaḥib-qirān_ (The Acts of Tīmūr), was in Turki, was brought fort...
3. CHAPTER III.This chapter is a literary counterpart of "Babur Padshah's Stone-heap," the roadside cairn tradition says was piled by his army, each man laying his stone when passing down from...
11. ix. The passage is singularly inadequate to fill a gap of 14x. Khwāja _Aḥrārī's_ promises did nothing to fulfil Bābur's wishes for 908 AH. while those of Ya`qūb for immediate victory were closely followed by defeat and exile. Bābur knew...
8. iii. Khwāja Yaḥyā is not known to have had a son, named9. vi. He did not set out for Khurāsān after spending 4 months10. viii. The '3 days,' and the 'day and two nights,' and the '5