Vol. I, No, 5.] The Emperor Babar, 137 
[N. S.] 
15. The Emperor Babar—By H. Beverwar, I.C.S. (retired.) 
As everything relating to Babar is interesting, I shall here 
set down a few things about him whic ot mentioned in 
Erskine and Abul Fazl. The most important is a tradition which 
is still current in Babar’s native country of Farghana, and which is 
i okand (7 
recorded in the “ Hist of the Khanate of K (t.e., 
Farghana) by Vladimir Petrovitch Nalivkine, a translation of 
ich by Aug. Dozon was published at Paris in 1889. The author, 
after his defeat by the Uzbegs, Saizida Afaq, one of his wives, who 
was accompanying him in his flight, was seized by the pangs of 
i j and- 
child-birth in the desert which extends fro jand to Kand 
badam (east of Khojand and north of Isfava) and gave birth to 
son. Babar dared not tarry, and s infant was wrapped up 
