Mems., 22.
Tār. Rash., E. & R., 114, 116.
CLXIII. Rajab-sulān Mīrān-shāhī.
Ar. rajab, fearing, worshipping. Sulān may here be a title.
Daughter of Sulān Maḥmūd Mīrzā and a concubine (ghūncha-chī).
Mems., 30.
CLXIV. Ruqaiya Begam Mīrān-shāhī.
Ruqaiya was the name of a daughter of Muḥammad, and conveys the notion of bewitching or of being armed against spells.
Daughter of Hindāl; first wife of Akbar; she died
Jumāda I. 7th, 1035H. (January 19th, 1626), at the
age of eighty-four. She had no children of her own,
and she brought up Shāh-jahān. Mihru-n-nisā' (Nūr-
Āīn-i-akbarī, Blochmann, 309, 509.
CLXV. Ruqaiya-sulān Begam Mīrān-shāhī.
Daughter of 'Umar Shaikh Mīrān-shāhī and Makh-
Mems, 10.
CLXVI. Sa'ādat-bakht (Begam Sulān) Bāyqrā.
Of happy fortune; Ar. sa'ādat, happy, and Pers. bakht, fortune.
Daughter of Sulān Ḥusain Mīrzā Bāyqrā and Papa (Bābā) āghācha. She was married to Sulān Ma'sūd after the loss of his eyesight.
Mems., 182.
Ḥabību-s-siyār, 327 et seq.
CLXVII. Ṣāḥib-daulat Begam Dughlāt.
The princess of good fortune; Ar. ṣāḥib, enjoying, and daulat, fortune.
Sister of Mīr Jabār Bardī Dughlāt; wife of Sulān Aḥmad Khān Chaghatāī; mother of Manṣūr, Bābājāk, Shāh Shaikh Muḥammad and Māham.
Tār. Rash., E. & R., 125, 344.
CLXVIII. Sakīna-bānū Begam Mīrān-shāhī.
The princess guardian of tranquillity; Ar. sakīna, tranquillity of mind, and Pers. bānū, keeper.
Daughter of Humāyūn and Māh-chūchak; wife of Shāh Ghāzī Khān, son of Naqīb Khān Qazwīnī, a personal friend of Akbar.
Gul-badan, 71a.
Blochmann, 435, 449.
CLXIX. Sālḥa-sulān Begam Mīrān-shāhī.
Cf. Salīma-sulān Chaqānīānī.
CLXX. Salīma-sulān Begam Chaqānīānī.
Daughter of Mīrzā Nūru-d-dīn Muḥammad Chaqā-
As to her maternal parentage there are difficulties.
From the Ma'āsir-i-raḥīmī, under 1024H., the following
information is obtained. Pāshā Begam Bahārlū
Turkomān married (873H., 1469) as her second husband,
Sulān Maḥmūd Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī. By him she had
three daughters and one son: Bayasanghar (b. 882H.,
1477). One daughter whose name was Sālḥa-sulān
Begam, married Bābar and bore him a daughter,
Gul-rukh (sic). Gul-rukh married Nūru-d-dīn Muḥam-
Abū'l-faẓl (Bib. Ind. ed., II. 65) adds the particular that Firdaus-makānī gave his daughter Gul-barg (sic), to Nūru-d-dīn because a daughter of Maḥmūd and Pāshā had been given to Nūru-d-dīn's grandfather Khwāja Ḥasan, known as Khwāja-zāda Chaqānīānī. He also states that Salīma-sulān Begam was the issue of Gul-barg's marriage.
In the Memoirs, as we have them, there is no
mention of Sālḥa-sulān nor of Nūru-d-dīn's marriage
with a daughter of Bābar. Yet Abū'l-faẓl states that
Firdaus-makānī arranged Gul-barg's marriage. The
first omission is the more remarkable because Bābar
(Mems., 30) states that Pāshā had three daughters.
He does not give their names, and specifies the
marriage of the eldest only. On the same page he
tells of his marriage with Sālḥa's half-sister Zainab
and of her death. The omission is remarkable and
appears to have no good ground, since he chronicles
his other Tīmūrid marriages. Of Pāshā's daughters
it may be noted here that one married Malik Muḥam-
It appears to me tolerably clear that Bābar's marriage with Sālḥa-sulān took place at a date which falls in a gap of the Memoirs, i.e., from 1511 to 1519. This is the period which contains the exile from Kābul after the Mughal rebellion.
Not only does Bābar omit Sālḥa-sulān's name and
his marriage with her (Mems., 30), but Gul-badan is
also silent as to name, marriage and child of Sālḥa-
An explanation of Gul-badan's silence and also of a part of Bābar's has suggested itself to me; it is conjectural merely and hypothetical. The absence of mention of Sālḥa-sulān and of her child suggests that she appears under another name in Gul-badan's list of her father's children and their mothers. She may be Gul-badan's own mother, Dil-dār Begam without undue wresting of known circumstantial witness.
The principal difficulty in the way of this identification
is Abū'l-faẓl's statement that Nūru-d-dīn's
marriage was made by Firdaus-makānī, whereas Gul-
If we might read Jannat-āshyānī (Humāyūn) for Firdaus-makānī much would fall into place; the marriage with Nūru-d-dīn could be a re-marriage of Gul-chihra who was widowed in 1533, and of whose remarriage nothing is recorded until her brief political alliance with 'Abbas Uzbeg in 1549. It is probable that she remarried in the interval.
To pass on to recorded incidents of Salīma-sulān's life:
There is an entry in Hindāl's guest-list which may indicate her presence.
She accompanied Ḥamīda-bānū and Gul-badan to Hindūstan in 964H. (1557), and she was married at Jalindhar shortly after Ṣafar 15th, 965H. (middle of December, 1557) to Bairām Khān-i-khānān. It is said that the marriage excited great interest at Court. It united two streams of descent from 'Alī-shukr Beg Bahārlū Turkomān. Salīma-sulān was a Tīmūrid through Bābar, one of her grandfathers, and through Maḥmūd, one of her great-grandfathers.