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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Note 1267 — SECTION II. KĀBUL666 (continued 3)

Annette Susannah Beveridge translation

One may be the book-name, the second the name in common use, and due to the colour of the buildings. But Bābur may be making an ironical jest, and nickname the fort by a word referring to the defilement (ālā) of Aūzbeg possession. (Cf. Ḥ.S. iii, 359.)

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