Isān-tīmūr is last mentioned in 1543, and of Gul-
Gul-badan, 6b, 16b, 18b, 23a, 25b, 29b.
LXXV. Gul-rukh Begam (?) Begchik Mughal.
The rose-cheeked princess.
Wife of Bābar; mother of Kāmrān, 'Askarī, Shāh-
She is perhaps a Begchik. This may be judged from the following notes:
(1) Kāmrān married a daughter of Sulān 'Alī Mīrzā aghāī.* (Mems., 388.)
(2) Humāyūn married a daughter of Yādgār aghāī. (Mems., 388.)
Amongst contemporary Begchik amīrs are Sulān Alī Mīrzā and Yādgār Mīrzā.
If one follows the recorded incidents of Sulān 'Alī's life, one sees that Gul-rukh may be his sister.
(a) In 914H. (1508-9) he was ordered to drown Khalīl Khān. (Tār. Rash., 183.) Having done so, he took refuge with Bābar in Samarqand. (l.c., 265.)
(b) In 917H. (1511) he was with Sayyid Muḥammad Dughlāt in Andijān, apparently at Bābar's instance. (l.c., 248.) In the same year he was sent by Sa'īd Khān who had reinforced Andijān under Bābar's orders, to Kāzan.
(c) In 920H. (1514) he accompanied Sa'īd in his conquest of Kāshghar, and at this date is named amongst the Begchik amīrs of the Kāshghar army. (l.c., 308, 326.)
(d) In 925H. (1519) he waited on Bābar, and is styled aghāī of Kāmrān. (Mems., 274.) Bābar says here: ‘Sulān 'Alī Mīrzā, the maternal uncle of Kāmrān (Ilminsky, 311, Kāmrān-nīnak aghāī), who in the year in which I passed over from Khost to Kābul had proceeded to Kāshghar, as has been mentioned ,* waited on me here.’
Bābar must several times have passed from Khost (Andar-āb) to Kābul. The Tārīkh-i-rashīdī fixes the occasion here alluded to as in 920H. (1514). This was Bābar's latest and last crossing of the northern passes to Kabul.
By thus bringing the statements of the Memoirs and the Tārīkh-i-rashīdī together, Sulān 'Alī Mīrzā Begchik is fairly-well identified with Sulān 'Alī Mīrzā, aghāī of Kāmrān.'
(e) In 935H. (1528) Kāmrān married his daughter. (Mems., 388.)
Mems., 274, 388.
Tār. Rash., 183, 248, 264, 265, 280, 308, 326.
LXXVI. Gul-rukh Begam Mīrān-shāhī.
Daughter of Kāmrān Mīrzā; wife of Ibrāhīm Ḥusain Mīrzā Bāyqrā; mother of Muaffar Ḥusain who married Sulān Khānam, Akbar's eldest daughter, and of Nūru-n-nisā' who became a wife of Salīm (the Emperor Jahāngīr).
The story of her husband's rebellious pursuit and death (981H., 1573), and of her flight to the Dakhin with her son, is found at length in the histories.
She was living and visited by Jahāngīr in 1023H. (1614). (Cf. XIX. 'Āyisha-sulān.)
LXXVII. Gūn-war Bībī.
Wife of Humāyūn and mother of Bakhshī-bānū Begam.
Gul-badan, 39b.
LXXVIII. Ḥabība Begam Mīrān-shāhī.
The beloved or desired princess.
Eldest daughter of Kāmrān Mīrzā and probably
of the daughter of Uncle (aghāī) Sulān 'Alī Mīrzā
Begchik whom Kāmrān married in 935H. (1528).
She married Yasīn-daulat (the Fair Sulān) Chaghatāī
Mughal, a brother of Gul-badan's husband, Khiẓr, and
her own second cousin. It may be that she married a
second time after she was forcibly parted from Yasīn-
Gul-badan, 64b, 65a, 78a.
LXXIX. Ḥabība-sulān Begam Arghūn.
The desired of the desired; Ar. ḥabība, beloved, desired, and sulān, pre-eminence, sway.
‘Brother's daughter of Sulān Arghūn’ (? Muqīm, Shāh Shuja'a, or a brother of Ẕū'l-nūn); wife of Sulān Aḥmad Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī; and mother of Bābar's wife, Ma'ṣūma. Bābar gave her a name of affection, yanga. (Cf. Index, s.v..)
Mems., 22, 23, 208, 238.
LXXX. Ḥabība-sulān Khānish Dughlāt. (No. 21.)
Daughter of Muḥammad Ḥusain Dughlāt and Khūb-
She was taken captive as a child by Shaibānī Uzbeg, and she lived in his household until he gave her in marriage to his nephew, 'Ubaidu-l-lāh. Shortly before Shaibānī murdered her father (914H., 1508-9), 'Ubaidu-l-lāh asked for Ḥaidar (œtat. 11) to come to him and Ḥabība in Bukhārā, and thus saved him from a general massacre of Mughal sulāns.
When 'Ubaidu-l-lāh retreated to Turkistān (cir. 1511), Ḥabība remained in Bukhārā. She then joined her uncle Sayyid Muḥammad Dughlāt, in Samarqand, and with him went to Andijān where he married her to her cousin Sa'īd. She reared one of Sa'īd's children, Rashīd whose mother was a ‘tribeswoman,’ Makhdūm Qāluchī, but he certainly did her training no credit. She was widowed in 939H. (July 9th, 1533), so that Gul-badan may be wrong in saying that she was at the Mystic Feast in 1531. She may have been a wedding guest in 1537.
Tār. Rash., E. & R., 140, 192, 193, 206, 268, 451, 453.
Gul-badan, 24b.
LXXXI. Ḥājī Begam Mīrān-shāhī.
She was a daughter of Kāmrān, and accompanied Gul-badan Begam to Makka in 983H., but it is to be inferred that this was not the pilgrimage which gave her her title of Ḥājī, since she is so entered before the ḥaj of 983H. (Cf. XIX, 'Āyisha-sulān.)
(Ḥājī Begam, Bega, q.v.)
(Ḥājī Begam, Māh-chūchak Arghūn, q.v.)
LXXXII. Ḥamīda-bānū.
Ar. ḥamīda, praised, laudable, and Pers. bānū.
Daughter of Sayyid Muḥammad Qāsim. She died 984H. (1576-77), and was buried at Andakhui.
The above information is given by Captain Yate, and as Hamīda-bānū may be the daughter of one of Humāyūn's followers, I have inserted her name.
Northern Afghānīstan, Yate, p. 349.
LXXXIII. Ḥamīda-bānū Begam Maryam-makānī.
Posthumous style, Maryam-makānī, dwelling with Mary.
She was the mother of Akbar. There is difficulty in making precise statement as to her family relations. She was of the lineage of Aḥmad Jāmī Zinda-fīl.
(a). Gul-badan, whose long intimacy with Ḥamīda invests her statement with authority, states that Mīr Bāba Dost was Ḥamīda's father, and that Khwāja Mu'aam was her barādar, i.e., brother undefined.