Did he marry Kīchak, and was she divorced after his blinding or at some other time, and then was Sa'ādat-bakht given to him?

Mems., 181, 182, 387.

Gul-badan, 24b.

XCIX. Khān-zāda Begam Mīrān-shāhī.

Daughter of 'Umar Shaikh Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī and of Qūt-līq-nigār Khānam; full-sister of Bābar and five years his senior. Eldest of her father's daughters. She is recorded as thrice married: first, to Shaibānī in 1501 (907H.); secondly, to a man of inferior rank, Sayyid Hada; and, thirdly, to Mahdī Muḥammad Khwāja,* son of Mūsa Khwāja. One child of hers is recorded, Shaibānī's son, Khurram-shāh Sulān.

She was born circa 1478 (883H.). This is known from the statement of her brother that she was five years his senior. In 1501 (907H.) she was married by Shaibānī when he captured Samarqand from Bābar. Gul-badan makes the marriage a condition of Shaibānī's peace with Bābar; Ḥaidar says she was given in exchange for Bābar's life, and Khāfī Khān, as a ransom (ba tarīq-i-faida). She was in Shaibānī's power and could have been married with­out consent of Bābar. As in 1501 she was twenty-three years old, she had almost certainly been married before, possibly to Mahdī. Her marriage arrangements with Shaibānī might include the divorce which the Musalmān law requires. Bābar does not go into details as to the marriage; he says she fell into Shaibānī's hands. Presumably as himself of Tīmūrid birth, Shaibānī would treat a Tīmūrid woman with respectful forms even when she was spoil of battle. To marry Khān-zāda, he divorced her maternal aunt, Mihr-nigār Chaghatāī.

Khān-zāda's son by Shaibānī, Khurram-shāh, died a young man. Shaibānī divorced her because she leaned to her brother's side in disputed matters. He then gave her in marriage to a certain Sayyid Hada, who fell in the battle of Merv with Shaibānī himself (1510).

In 1511 and at the age of thirty-three, she was returned to Bābar by Shāh Ismā'īl. At what date she married Mahdī Muḥammad Khwāja I am not able to say. It is probable that the marriage would take place within no long time after her return. As Mahdī is never described by Bābar in any way (as is his custom when a new actor comes upon the scene of his Memoirs), it is probable that Mahdī's joining Bābar and his marriage with Khān-zāda took place in the decade 1509-19, of which no record is known to survive.* Mahdī was with Bābar in 1519 (925H.), and is frequently mentioned subsequently.

There are many references to Khān-zāda by Gul-badan who frequently calls her Dearest Lady (āka-janām ). She died at Qabal-chak in 1545 (952H.), aged about sixty-seven years, and after a life full of sorrows and chagrins.

Gul-badan, 3b, 15b, 18b, 23b, 24b, 27b, 28b, 50b, 62b, 63a.

Mems., 10, 98, 241 (Supplement).

Tār. Rash., E. & R., 117, 155, 175, 196, 239, 400.

Ḥabību-s-siyār, under date 923H.

Khāfī Khān, I. 33 (here Khāna-zāda).

C. Khān-zāda Begam Mīrān-shāhī.

Daughter of Sulān Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī and Khān-zāda Termiẕī II.; wife (1) of Abā-bakr Dughlāt, and mother by him of (?) Jahāngīr, Turāngīr, and Bus­tāngīr; (2) of Sayyid Muḥammad Dughlāt who married her in conformity with the custom of yanga-lik. (Cf. Jamāl āghā.)

Mems., 30.

Tār. Rash., E. & R., 330.

CI. Khān-zāda Begam Termiẕī.

Of the family of the Khāns of Termiẕ; wife of Sulān Aḥmad Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī. She was a bride when Bābar was five, i.e., in 893H. (1488) but, according to Turkī custom, was still veiled. Sulān Aḥmad desired Bābar to pluck off the veil and run away, a little ceremony which it was supposed would bring him good luck when his time for marriage should come.

Mems., 23.

CII. Khān-zāda Begam Termiẕī (a.).

Daughter of the chief (mīr-i-buzurg) of Termiẕ; wife of Sulān Maḥmūd Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī; mother of Sulān Mas'ūd Mīrzā. She died apparently early in her married life. The mīrzā was greatly afflicted at her death.

Mems., 29, 30.

CIII. Khān-zāda Begam Termiẕī (b.).

Daughter of a brother of Khānzāda Termiẕī (a.); grand-daughter of the chief of Termiẕ; wife of Sulān Maḥmūd Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī; mother of Ḥusain (who died, aged thirteen, before his father) and of five girls, Khānzāda, Bega, Āq, Āī, and Zainab.

Mems., 29, 30, 38, 128.

CIV. Khān-zāda Khānam.

‘Épouse légitime’ of Muaffar Mīrzā Bāyqrā, and illegally taken by Shaibānī.

Mems., 224.

Pavet de Courteille, II., 10.

CV. Khūb-nigār Khānam Chaghatāī Mughal.

The image of beauty. Here khānam has its full value, since Khūb-nigār was daughter of the Khāqān, the Khān emphatically.

Third daughter of Yūnas Khān Chaghatāī and Isān-daulat Qūchīn; wife of Muḥammad Ḥusain Dughlāt Ḥiṣārī; mother of Ḥaidar and Ḥabība.* She was a year older than her husband, and was married in 899H. (1493-94). Bābar, writing in 907H. (1501-2) mentions the reception of news of her death. Her husband was murdered in 914H..

Mems., 12, 99, 218.

Tār. Rash., E. & R., 117, 118, 153, 156, 197.

CVI. Khurshed kūkī. (Nos. 55 and 64.)

Pers., the sun, sunshine.

Gul-badan, 26a.

CVII. Kīchak Begam Bāyqrā.

The small princess; Turkī, kīchak, small. The name is probably a sobriquet.

Daughter of Sulān Ḥusain Mīrzā Bāyqrā and Pāyanda-sulān Begam Mīrān-shāhī; wife of Maulānā Khwāja who was of the family of Sayyid Atā one of her father's best vazīrs.

Khwānd-amīr reverses her marriage with that of her sister Bega, and makes her marry Bābar, son of Rabī'a.

Mems., 181.

Ḥabību-s-siyār, 327 et seq..

CVIII. Kīchak Begam Termiẕī. (No. 23.)

Daughter of Mīr 'Alā'u-l-mulk Termiẕī and Fakhr-jahān Mīrān-shāhī; wife of Khwāja Mu'īn Aḥrārī; mother of Mīrzā Sharafu-d-dīn Ḥusain.

She went to Hindūstān with her mother, and was at Hindāl's wedding feast.

Mems., without names. (Cf. Fakhr-jahān and Shāh Begam.)

Gul-badan, 25a.

Akbar-nāma (lith. ed.), s.n..

Aīn-i-akbarī, Blochmann, 322.

CIX. Kīchak māham. (No. 80.)

Cf. s.n. Māham for meaning of the word.

She is named as at Hindāl's wedding.

Gul-badan, 26b.

CX. Kilān Khān Begam.

This is clearly not a personal name. Pers. kilān, elder, great, and Turkī khān, a title.