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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Note 1594 — SECTION III. HINDŪSTĀN

Annette Susannah Beveridge translation

presumably the karg-khāna of f. 222b, rhinoceros-home in both places. A similar name applies to a tract in the Rawalpindi District,—Bābur-khāna, Tiger-home, which is linked to the tradition of Buddha’s self-sacrifice to appease the hunger of seven tiger-cubs. [In this Bābur-khāna is the town Kacha-kot from which Bābur always names the river Hārū.]

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