Ḥājī Begam was visited by Akbar and she died in 991H. (1583).
Gul-badan, 77a, 78a.
Akbar-nāma, III. 145, 373, 375.
XX. 'Āyisha-sulān Khānam and Khātīm, Mughal Khānam, Chaghatāī Mughal.
Daughter of Sulān Maḥmūd Khān. In 909H. (1503) she, together with other ladies of her father's household, was captured by Shaibānī and was married by him. She bore him a son, Muḥammād-raḥīm Sulān. She wrote Turkī verses, and her name appears in the biography of poetesses by Fakhrī amīrī. Mīrzā Ḥaidar says that some of her children and of two other Mughal khānams (Daulat and Qūt-līq) who were forcibly married at the same time, were living and reigning in Transoxiana at the time of his writing the Tārīkh-i-rashīdī. She is, I think, the 'Āyisha named by Gul-badan on 76b.
Tār. Rash., 160, 192, 193.
Gul-badan, 76b.
Jawāhiru-l-'ajāib. Fakhrī amīrī (Bodleian MS.).
XXI. Bābū āghā (Māmā āghā).
Professor Blochmann writes the name Bābū; but Bābā, darling, or Bānū, lady, would seem more appropriate for a Persian woman.
She was the wife of Shihābu-d-dīn Aḥmad Khān Nishāpūrī, and was related to Ḥamīda-bānū Begam Jāmī, Akbar's mother. Abū'l-faẓl calls her Māmā āghā. He says that she was a good woman, and that on her death Akbar went to her house and offered condolence because of her relationship to his mother.
Shihābu-d-dīn was damād of Māham anaga, and as damād is presumably used here in its more common sense of ‘son-in-law,’ Bābū āghā would seem to be a daughter of Māham anaga.
Akbar-nāma, Bib. Ind. ed., III. 716.
Aīn-i-akbarī, Blochmann, 333.
XXII. Bachaka Khalīfa.
Gul-badan, Bachaka; Mems., Bachaka; Ilminsky, Bīchkā. Vambéry (Chaghatāische Sprachstudien) has an appropriate word, bechek, Chok. (? Kokand), zierrath; ornament. The name is presumably Chaghatāī Turkī, as the bearer of it was an old family servant of a Farghāna household.
Bachaka was a head woman-servant (khalīfa) of Bābar's household, and was one of two women who escaped with his mother and him from Samarqand in 1501. There was a Bachaka whom Gul-badan calls a ‘khalīfa of my royal father,’ lost at Chausa in 1539, and the two references may well be to the same woman.
Mems., 98.
Gul-badan, 33b.
Ilminsky, 116.
XXIII. Badī'u-l-jamāl Khānam Chaghatāī Mughal.
The khānam of rare beauty; Ar. badī', astonishing, rare; jamāl, beauty.
Daughter of Sa'īd Khān Chaghatāī Mughal, ruler of
Kāshghar; and first cousin, once removed, of Bābar.
She married Bāush Sulān of the Uzbeg Kazāks. On
her father's death, her brother Rashīd insisted upon
her divorce, and then gave her in marriage to Muḥam-
Tār. Rash., E. & R., 453.
XXIV. Badī'u-l-jamāl Begam Mīrān-shāhī. (No. 2.)
She was a daughter of Sulān Abū-sa'īd Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī. She went to India during Bābar's life; was at the double wedding of his daughters, and at the Mystic Feast in 1531.
Mems., 387.
Gul-badan, 11a, 18b, 24b.
XXV. Bairām (Maryam) Sulān.
Ilminsky calls her Bairam; Khwānd-amīr, Maryam. The Mems. give her no name.
She was the elder daughter of Sulān Ḥusain Mīrzā Bāyqrā and Mīnglī-bī āghācha Uzbeg. She married Sayyid 'Abdu-l-lāh Mīrzā of Andikhūd (a Tīmūrid through his mother). She bore a son, Savvid Birka, who served Bābar.
Ilminsky, 209.
Mems., 181.
Ḥabību-s-siyār, 327 et seq..
XXVI. Bakhshī-bānū Begam.
Princess Good-fortune. Pers. bakhsh, fortune, and bānū (vān), possessing.
She was a daughter of Humāyūn and of Gūnwar
Bībī, and was born in Jumāda I., 947H. (September,
1540), the year of the Tīmūrid exodus from India. She
fell into the hands of her uncle 'Askarī with her father's
camp and the baby Akbar in 1543. In 1545 she was
sent with Akbar in the depth of winter from Qandahār
to Kābul. In 957H. (1550), and when ten years old,
she was betrothed by her father to Ibrāhīm, son of
Sulaimān and Ḥaram. Ibrāhīm (b. 1534) was six years
older than Bakhshī-bānū, and he was killed in 1560,
leaving her a widow of twenty. In the same year
she was given in marriage by Akbar to Mīrzā Sharafu-
Gul-badan, 39b.
Akbar-nāma, s.n..
XXVII. Bakhtu-n-nisa' Begam.
Felicity of womanhood; Pers. bakht, felicity, fortune, and nisā', woman.
She was a daughter of Humāyūn and Māh-chūchak, and was born in 957H. (1550). Gul-badan says that she received her name in accordance with Humāyūn's interpretation of a dream. There is, however, ground for thinking that she and Fakhru-n-nisā', both mentioned in the histories as daughters of Māh-chūchak, are one and the same person. Gul-badan enumerates three daughters of Māh-chūchak, and says that there were four. It is her habit to state, in such matters, one more than she names. She mentions Bakht, but not Fakhr.
Of Bakhtu-n-nisā' it is recorded in the histories that she came from Kābul to India with her son Diwālī, after the death of Mīrzā Muḥammad Hakīm, her brother (993H.—1584-85), and that she was concerned in a reconciliation effected by Salīma-sulān Begam between Akbar and Salīm.
Of Fakhru-n-nisā it is recorded that she married
Shāh Abū'l-ma'ālī Termiẕī and Khwāja Ḥasan Naqsh-
Gul-badan, 71a.
Khāfī Khān (Bib. Ind. ed.), I. 226.
Badāyunī, Lowe, 72.
Akbar-nāma, s.n..
Aīn-i-akbarī, Blochmann, 322.
XXVIII. Bakht-sulān Begam Mīrān-shāhī. (No. 4.)
Daughter of Sulān Abū-sa'īd Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī and mother of Āfāq (No. 26). She went to India shortly after its conquest by Bābar, and was at the Mystic Feast.
Mems., 387.
Gul-badan, 11a, 24b, 25b.
XXIX. Barlās Begam. (No. 36.)
There is no clue given by which to identify this lady. Others who were, like herself, at the Mystic Feast might, by tribal descent, be styled Barlās.
Gul-badan, 25b.
(Bedka, Rabī'a, q.v..)
XXX. Bega āghā.
Bega is perhaps not a personal name. It appears to be a feminine of beg, but its application is not always to the daughters of begs, as may be seen by the instances here given. For a confusion of bega and yanga cf. App. s.n. Zainab.
A messenger of Mīrzā Kāmrān to Ḥaram Begam.
Gul-badan, 75b.
XXXI. Bega Begam Bāyqrā.
Daughter of Sulān Ḥusain Mīrzā Bāyqrā and Pāyanda-sulān Begam Mīrān-shāhī; full sister of Ḥaidar Bāyqrā; first cousin of Bābar; wife of Bābar Mīrzā of Ḥājī Tarkhān who was her first cousin and the son of Rabī'a-sulān (Bedka) Bāyqrā.