Note 2279 — SECTION III. HINDŪSTĀN (continued 3)
Annette Susannah Beveridge translation
shaft-ālū i.e. the rosy colour of peach-flowers, perhaps lip-red (Steingass). Bābur’s contrast seems to be between those red oleanders of Hindūstān that are rosy-red, and the deep red ones he found in Gūālīār.