The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

BABUR'S EXEMPLARS IN THE ARTS OF PEACE. Babur's civilian aptitudes, whether of the author and penman, the maker of gardens, the artist, craftsman or sportsman, were nourished in a...

PROBLEMS OF THE MUTILATED BABUR-NAMA. 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 c...

THE TURKI MSS. AND WORK CONNECTING WITH THEM. This chapter is a literary counterpart of "Babur Padshah's Stone-heap," the roadside cairn tradition says was piled by his army, each...

_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 re...

BABUR'S ORIGINAL CODEX. 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 priva...

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 orig...

THE LEYDEN AND ERSKINE MEMOIRS OF BABER. The fame and long literary services of the _Memoirs of Baber_ compel me to explain why these volumes of mine contain a verbally new Englis...

Bābur's letter to Kāmrān, App. J, xxxv, (_see Archivs_). Memory, retentive, 290. _Merv Oasis_, O'Donovan—Rādagān 622. _Metamorphoses_, Ovid—Scorpio and Libra 623. M...

ITS DESCENDANTS AND OFFTAKES Table lvii;— (_a_) Petrograd F. O. Codex (_an indirect copy_ (?)), described by purchaser as _Bābur-nāma_, Preface xliii-iv; ...

thus:— "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 ...

seemingly 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 brough...