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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Note 548 — SECTION I. FARGHĀNA. (continued 3)

Annette Susannah Beveridge translation

In 875 AH. (1470 AD.). Ḥusain was then 32 years old. Bābur might have compared his taking of Samarkand with Tīmūr’s capture of Qarshī, also with 240 followers (Z̤.N. i, 127). Firishta (lith. ed. p. 196) ascribes his omission to do so to reluctance to rank himself with his great ancestor.

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