Though this man avoided tasting wine while visiting friends in Herat, he la
Though this man avoided tasting wine while visiting friends in Herat, he later became an enthusiastic drinker who lamented his "craving for a wine-party" in poetry after giving it up for two years. This ruler's memoir, which describes a land he captured as lacking in horses, gardens, and melons, contains a notable eleven-year gap and was written in his native Chagatai Turkic. After begging that God take his life instead of his son's, this ruler died and was buried in his namesake garden in (*) Kabul. This ruler captured and lost Samarkand twice after being forced out of his home in the Ferghana Valley, so he fled to Afghanistan and later led an invasion of India, where he and his son Humayun defeated the Lodi dynasty at the First Battle of Panipat. For 10 points, name this founder of the Mughal Empire.
Though this man avoided tasting wine while visiting friends in Herat, he later became an enthusiastic drinker who lamented his "craving for a wine-party" in poetry after giving it up for two years.
(Zahir ud-Din Muhammad) Babur [or Baber; or Babar]