"May 12th, on Saturday the 29th of Rajab the examination and distribution of the treasure were begun. To Humāyūn were given 70 lakhs from the Treasury, and, over and above this, a treasure house was bestowed on him just as it was, without ascertaining and writing down its contents. To some begs 10 lakhs were given, 8, 7, or 6 to others. Suitable money-gifts were bestowed from the Treasury on the whole army, to every tribe there was, Afghān, Hazāra, ‘Arab, Bīlūch, etc. to each according to its position. Every trader and student, indeed every man who had come with the army, took ample portion and share of bounteous gift and largess. To those not with the army went a mass of treasure in gift and largess, as for instance, 17 lakhs to Kāmran, 15 lakhs to Muḥammad-i-zamān Mīrzā, while to ‘Askarī, Hindāl and indeed to the whole various train of relations and younger children went masses of red and white (gold and silver), of plenishing, jewels, and slaves. Many gifts went to the begs and soldiery on that side (Tramontana). Valuable gifts (saughāt) were sent for the various relations in Samarkand, Khurāsān, Kāshghar and ‘Irāq. To holy men belonging to Samarkand and Khurāsān went offerings vowed to God (nuẕūr); so too to Makka and Madīna. We gave one shāhrukhi for every soul in the country of Kābul and the valley-side of Varsak, man and woman, bond and free, of age or non-age."
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Ghāzī, ahiru’d-dīn Muḥammad Bābur Pādshāh, The Babur-nama in English (Memoirs of Babur), translated from the original Turki Text of ahiru’d-dīn Muḥammad Bābur Pādshāh Ghāzī. (ed.) Annette Susannah Beveridge. (trans.) Annette Susannah Beveridge. London: Luzac and Co, 1922. pp. 522-525.
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