An excerpt from the “Boburnoma”

The excerpt in the textbook starts with events of the year 912 (1506–1507): Bobur sets out for Khurasan, hears that Sultan Husayn mirza has died and meets Husayn Boyqaro’s sons at Murghab. He observes and records the order of the meeting, who sat where, the sons’ lateness and the feasts; he spends twenty days sightseeing in Herat and lists the city’s madrasas, gardens and hospitals. On the way back snow falls: Bobur and his companions trample the snow to make a path, and during the storm, when the cave looks too small and most people are left outside, Bobur too refuses to go in and sits in a hollow he has dug in the snow; once it turns out the cave is roomy, he goes in and calls the young men nearby in as well. Arriving in Kabul, he puts down a revolt organised by his brother and relatives, and instead of killing them sends them away to Khurasan. In spring he counts 34 kinds of tulips around Kabul. The excerpt tells of a great battle with a powerful rival in India, and then of Bobur offering himself in place of his son Humoyun, who lay seriously ill, praying for his recovery; Humoyun recovers and Bobur names him heir. At the end of the excerpt a scribe has added Bobur’s death and his qualities.