Babur, Conqueror of India

by Guest Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:37 am

In his autobiography, the Mughal emperor Babur writes that he would swim across every river he came across in his life. Also:

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It's a little-known fact that Babur was also the progenitor of Xtreme Sports. Way before Tony Hawk and the X Games Babur was doing all kinds of crazy Xtreme shit throughout India and Afghanistan. For starters, one of his favorite pump-up activities was sprinting up and down the battlements of his fortress carrying a person under each arm. So he would walk up to some random chump and instead of reciting the typical jock bitch insult of, "I could bench you", he would just grab him under his arm and start running. Once he got the the top of the battlements, he would then probably railslide the Great Wall of China and then somersault over the Moon.

Also, Babur swam across every river on the Indian subcontinent just for the hell of it. Some people make it their life goal to climb a mountain or ride a motorcycle across the United States; this guy wanted to swim every river in India so he just woke up one day and fucking did it. That's pretty rad. I can't imagine very many people have ever accomplished that feat...

Babur was more than just an unstoppable warlord who carried people up hills though. He was very well-educated and cultured as well. His personal memoirs, the Baburnamah, are still studied in textbooks throughout Asia and the Middle East and are noted as being filled with not only beautiful language but also interesting insight into the geography and culture of his civilization, right down to a comprehensive listing of the flora and fauna native to his region. By all accounts, it is truly an excellent insight into the life of Babur and the world in which he lived.

Babur's final act came in 1530 when his first-born son Humayun became deathly ill and was given little chance of survival. Babur wasn't about to let his son die before him, so he prayed to Allah to transfer his son's illness to him. Since Babur was such a badass, Allah listened. Humayun's condition dramatically improved while Babur fell ill, ultimately dying at the age of 47.

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/babur.html

by Propagandhi711 Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:41 am

and he starts his summer vacation of 2014 by jerking off to mughals, starting at the very top

by Guest Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:46 am

Propagandhi711 wrote:and he starts his summer vacation of 2014 by jerking off to mughals, starting at the very top

http://books.google.com/books?id=LO-UVTCbyVUC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=will+durant+worship+of+heroes&source=bl&ots=mdr4cnRIVN&sig=ZuF-VkR-_6MLwIjhwl0McwQEj-o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nAbAU7-0IIGuyATVlIGwBA&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=will%20durant%20worship%20of%20heroes&f=false

by Guest Fri Jul 11, 2014 12:07 pm

Some of these symmetries even seeped into Babur's own life. In much the same way as Shaybani Khan the Uzbek was harrying Babur, Genghis Khan had once pursued a young warrior-poet, one whose life was perhaps even more colourful than Babur's. The name of the Great Khan's prey was Jalal al-din, and he was the heir presumptive of the great kingdom of Khwarizm, centred in the region between the Caspian and the Aral seas.

Genghis Khan had a special grudge against the king of Khwarizm and after seizing the kingdom, in 1220, he sent a detachment of his swiftest riders to hunt down its ruling family. In what must count as one of the most amazing escapes in history, the 14-year-old Jalal al-din rode without a break for 40 days, circling through the deserts, steppes and mountains of Iran and Afghanistan, managing somehow to stay ahead of the great Mongol general, Jebe - known even among his fast-riding peoples as 'The Arrow'.

Genghis Khan finally hunted Jalal al-din to a place from which no escape seemed possible: a gorge above the upper Indus. But here again Jalal-al din succeeded in evading the Khan: he spurred his horse over the cliff and into the river, more than a hundred feet below. Legend has it that after calling off the chase, Genghis Khan summoned his entourage and pointed to the young prince swimming in the torrent below. "There," said Genghis Khan, who knew about these things, "goes a brave man." He would have said no less for his own descendant: Babur was nothing if not brave.

http://www.amitavghosh.com/essays/mosque.html

by MaxEntropy_Man Fri Jul 11, 2014 12:10 pm

Rashmun wrote:Some of these symmetries even seeped into Babur's own life. In much the same way as Shaybani Khan the Uzbek was harrying Babur, Genghis Khan had once pursued a young warrior-poet, one whose life was perhaps even more colourful than Babur's. The name of the Great Khan's prey was Jalal al-din, and he was the heir presumptive of the great kingdom of Khwarizm, centred in the region between the Caspian and the Aral seas.

Genghis Khan had a special grudge against the king of Khwarizm and after seizing the kingdom, in 1220, he sent a detachment of his swiftest riders to hunt down its ruling family. In what must count as one of the most amazing escapes in history, the 14-year-old Jalal al-din rode without a break for 40 days, circling through the deserts, steppes and mountains of Iran and Afghanistan, managing somehow to stay ahead of the great Mongol general, Jebe - known even among his fast-riding peoples as 'The Arrow'.

Genghis Khan finally hunted Jalal al-din to a place from which no escape seemed possible: a gorge above the upper Indus. But here again Jalal-al din succeeded in evading the Khan: he spurred his horse over the cliff and into the river, more than a hundred feet below. Legend has it that after calling off the chase, Genghis Khan summoned his entourage and pointed to the young prince swimming in the torrent below. "There," said Genghis Khan, who knew about these things, "goes a brave man." He would have said no less for his own descendant: Babur was nothing if not brave.

http://www.amitavghosh.com/essays/mosque.html

you might have a better chance of having someone click on this if you put the author's name in the title. people don't give much of a crap about babur, but lots of people care about what amitav ghosh writes.

by Guest Fri Jul 11, 2014 2:24 pm

Rashmun wrote:Some of these symmetries even seeped into Babur's own life. In much the same way as Shaybani Khan the Uzbek was harrying Babur, Genghis Khan had once pursued a young warrior-poet, one whose life was perhaps even more colourful than Babur's. The name of the Great Khan's prey was Jalal al-din, and he was the heir presumptive of the great kingdom of Khwarizm, centred in the region between the Caspian and the Aral seas.

Genghis Khan had a special grudge against the king of Khwarizm and after seizing the kingdom, in 1220, he sent a detachment of his swiftest riders to hunt down its ruling family. In what must count as one of the most amazing escapes in history, the 14-year-old Jalal al-din rode without a break for 40 days, circling through the deserts, steppes and mountains of Iran and Afghanistan, managing somehow to stay ahead of the great Mongol general, Jebe - known even among his fast-riding peoples as 'The Arrow'.

Genghis Khan finally hunted Jalal al-din to a place from which no escape seemed possible: a gorge above the upper Indus. But here again Jalal-al din succeeded in evading the Khan: he spurred his horse over the cliff and into the river, more than a hundred feet below. Legend has it that after calling off the chase, Genghis Khan summoned his entourage and pointed to the young prince swimming in the torrent below. "There," said Genghis Khan, who knew about these things, "goes a brave man." He would have said no less for his own descendant: Babur was nothing if not brave.

http://www.amitavghosh.com/essays/mosque.html

The "special grudge" that Genghis Khan ( also spelled as Chinghez Khan) had against the king of Khwarizm was this: the Khwarizm king had gone ahead and killed Chinghez Khan's mongol ambassadors to his court for some reason.

by Vakavaka Pakapaka Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:02 pm

Rashmun,

I read somewhere that the people of Afghanistan pee on Babar's tomb and curse him the same way they curse Saitan when they go to Mecca. Is that correct?

So, who is right, the sikular insecure Indians or Afghans?

by Guest Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:38 pm

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Rashmun,

I read somewhere that the people of Afghanistan pee on Babar's tomb and curse him the same way they curse Saitan when they go to Mecca. Is that correct?

So, who is right, the sikular insecure Indians or Afghans?

Never heard of this.

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