10. The Babarnama Fragments. 
By H. Beveriner. 
In Iminsky’s edition of the Babarnéma and in Pavet de Cour- 
teille’s translation therefrom, the authentic memoirs are followed 
by some chapters which give an account of the last years of 
Babar’s life and also contain notices of his officers and of some 
contemporary poets. The authentic memoirs break off in the 
beginning of 9386 A.H. 1529, or about fifteen months before 
Babar’s death, and the Fragments carry on the narrative down 
to his illness and death. They also give some details about the 
victory of Khanwa and other events of the year 933-36 —matters 
which are also described in the authentic memoirs. In the latter, 
however, though Babar gives an account of the preparations for 
the battle, he does not give us in his own words any description 
of the victory, and presents us instead with the grandiose Bulletin 
of Shaikh Zain. 
Dr. Teufel has shown in an elaborate paper in the D.M.G. 
has also argued with great ability and learning that the Frag- 
ments cannot be authentic, as their Turki is different from, and 
inferior to, Babar’s compositions. There can be no doubt that 
Abu-l-Fazl’s account and the Fragments either derive from one 
common source, or that one of them is a translation of the other, 
and Dr. Tenfel has pointed out that Iminsky had also observed 
the coincidence between the two. Ilminsky, apparently, has des- 
cribed the corresponding passage of Abi-1-Fazl as occurring in the 
introduction to the Ain-Akbari, but by this he clearly means the 
historical part of the Akbarnaima, which is often spoken of, and 
was regarded by Abi-I-Fazl himself, as an introduction to the 
Ain-Akbari on “ Institutions of Akbar.” 
The interesting question is, who was the author of the Frag- 
ments, or, if they are not original compositions, who translated into 
Turki the Persian of Abi-1 Fazl? Possibly the first part of them 
that, namely, in which the first person is used, was written by 
Babar himself, though if so it is extraordinary that it does not 
occur in the Haidarabad MS. of the Turki memoirs, or 1 the Per- 
sian translation ascribed to ‘Abdu-r-Rahim. But the whole of the 
Fragments cannot be Babar’s, for they record his death. Ss. 
part must be an addition made to complete the biography on the 
same principl+ as Timnur’s memoirs have been rounded off with 
notice of his death. pare A 
My own impression is, and long has been, that Babar athe 
grandson, Jahangir, is the author of the Fragments, or rather a : 
translation into Turki of the account on the Akbarnama; an 
