2. A dubious passage in the Ilminsky edition of the 
Baburnama. 
By H. BEVERIDGE. 
In an interesting passage of his Memoirs the Emperor 
Babur gives some particulars about the birth of his third son 
Hindal Mirza. This took place at Kabul early in 925 A.H., 
and about the end of February, 1519. Babur was out in cam 
at the time and in a valley north or north-west of Peshawar, 
and was engaged in a raid against the Yisufzais. 
The passage in which he refers to the coming birth of 
Hindal occurs at p. 220a of the imprint of the Haidarabad 
MS., and at p. 250 of Leyden and Erskine’s translation, and 
is as follows :— 
** After Humayun’ ee his mother bore several other 
children, but none of them survived. Hindal had not yet been 
born. While I was in these Netty a letter came from Mahim 
in which was written, ‘ Be it a boy, or be it a girl, give me 
whatever my Fortune grants me, I shall regard ie child as 
mine,! and shall rear it. 
On Frida ay, the 26th of this month (Muharram 925 equal to 
28th January, 1519),I, in this very camp, gave Hindal to 
Mahim, and I wrote a letter to this effect and sent it to Kabul 
by Yiisuf ‘Ali Rikabdar. As yet, Hindal was not born.’ 
In a subsequent passage, 258 of Leyden and Erskine, and 
227a of the Haidarabad text, Babur says that on Friday 
2 Rabi’u-l-awwal (4th March, 1519) he received a written report 
of Hindal’s birth. He adds, ‘‘ As the news came at the time I 
was making an expedition against India, I took the birth 
1 In the Elphinstone MS. and in the Haidarabad text the words are 
cgtlale (olla os} Ny9/ arzand chalai sakhlai. 1 cannot find the word chalai, 
but possibly it is connected with the word jil Jaa which according to 
Pavet de Courteille’ s Dict. is a word added to other words and has the 
ning ike to.’’ Ilminsky, 281, has farzand qilai u eakhlai. Very 
likely the word gilaz cots i is right, sod Leese is wrong in Ilminsky is 
the re Heese u after it. This conjunction does not occur either in 
the Elphinstone MS, or in the Haidarabadi. Tei is perhaps the occurrence 
of the ssa verse that has — Pavet de Courteille to wa sora ** met 
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