Babar hunting rhinoceros near Bigram (Peshawar) - Mughal miniature.
Mughal Emperor Babar in the beginning of his memoir, Babarnama, recorded: “On Friday, the 1st Sefer in the year 932, when the sun was in Sagittarius (1525 AD, November 17th), I set out on my march to invade Hindustan.” On reaching Peshawar, Babar went on a hunting trip in the marshes surrounding Peshawar in the areas irrigated by the Kabul River.
(Note: Indian rhinoceros - Rhinoceros unicornis - is now regionally extinct in Pakistan)
Mughal Emperor Babar in the beginning of his memoir, Babarnama, recorded: “On Friday, the 1st Sefer in the year 932, when the sun was in Sagittarius (1525 AD, November 17th), I set out on my march to invade Hindustan.” On reaching Peshawar, Babar went on a hunting trip in the marshes surrounding Peshawar in the areas irrigated by the Kabul River.
(Note: Indian rhinoceros - Rhinoceros unicornis - is now regionally extinct in Pakistan)
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