Название: The Bābur-nāma
Автор: Babur
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Зарубежная классика
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The route taken avoided the main road for Dīzak; it can be traced by the physical features, mentioned by Bābur, on the Fr. map of 1904. The Sh. N. says the night was extraordinarily dark. Departure in blinding darkness and by unusual ways shews distrust of Shaibāq’s safe-conduct suggesting that Yaḥyā’s fate was in the minds of the fugitives.
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The texts differ as to whether the last two lines are prose or verse. All four are in Turkī, but I surmise a clerical error in the refrain of the third, where
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The second was in 908 AH. (f. 18
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Ḥai. MS.
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She was the wife of the then Governor of Aūrā-tīpā, Muḥ. Ḥusain
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It may be noted here that in speaking of these elder women Bābur uses the honorific plural, a form of rare occurrence except for such women, for saintly persons and exceptionally for The supreme Khān. For his father he has never used it.
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This name has several variants. The village lies, in a valley-bottom, on the Aq-sū and on a road.
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She had been divorced from Shaibānī in order to allow him to make legal marriage with her niece, Khān-zāda.
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Amongst the variants of this name, I select the modern one. Macha is the upper valley of the Zar-afshān.
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Tīmūr took Dihlī in 801 AH. (Dec. 1398),
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The anecdote here following, has been analysed in JRAS 1908, p. 87, in order to show warrant for the opinion that parts of the Kehr-Ilminsky text are retranslations from the Persian W. – i-B.
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Amongst those thus leaving seem to have been Qaṃbar-‘alī (f. 99b).
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The Sh. N. speaks of the cold in that winter (Vambéry, p. 160). It was unusual for the Sīr to freeze in this part of its course (Sh. N. p. 172) where it is extremely rapid (Kostenko, i, 213).
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Point to point, some 50 miles.
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Āb-burdan village is on the Zar-afshān; the pass is 11,200 ft. above the sea. Bābur’s boundaries still hold good and the spring still flows.
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From the
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This may be the Khwāja Hijrī of the A.N. (index
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The Ḥai. MS. points in the last line as though punning on Khān and Jān, but appears to be wrong.
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For an account of the waste of crops, the Sh. N. should be seen (p. 162 and 180).
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I think this refers to last year’s move (f. 94 foot).
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In other words, the T. preposition, meaning E. in, at,
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The acclamation of the standards is depicted in B.M. W. – i-B. Or. 3714 f. 128b. One cloth is shewn tied to the off fore-leg of a live cow, above the knee, Bābur’s word being
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The libation was of fermented mares'-milk.
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Elph. MS. f. 74; W. – i-B. I.O. 215 f. 83 and 217 f. 66; Mems. p. 104.
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It may be noted that Bābur calls his mother’s brothers, not
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A rider’s metaphor.
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As touching the misnomer, ‘Mughūl dynasty’ for the Tīmūrid rulers in Hindūstān, it may be noted that here, as Bābur is speaking to a Chaghatāī Mughūl, his ‘Turk’ is left to apply to himself.
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Gulistān, cap. viii, Maxim 12 (Platts’ ed. p. 147).
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This backward count is to 890 AH. when Aḥmad fled from cultivated lands (T.R. p. 113).
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It becomes clear that Aḥmad had already been asked to come СКАЧАТЬ