Chaqānīān.		Black Sheep Turkomāns.
Khwāja 'Alā'u-d-dīn,
first successor of Khwāja
Naqshbandī.		'Alī-shukr Beg	Pīr-'alī Bahārlū
		Bahārlū Turkomān.	Turkomān.
Khwāja Ḥasan 'aār.
Not named.	Sulān Mahmūd
	Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī. = Pāshā Begam.		Bīr-bal Beg.
Khwāja Ḥasan,??d. Khwāja-zāda Chaqānīānī.	d. = Malik Muḥam-mad.	Salḥā-sulān Begam = Bābar.	Saif-'alī.
Mīrzā 'Alā'u-d-dīn Muḥāmmad.
Mīrzā Nuru-d-dīn Muḥammmad.		Gul-rukh, or -barg, etc.
	Salīma-sulān Begam.		Bairām Khān-i-khānān .

of Muṣāhib Khān, son of Khwāja Kilān (Bābar's friend).

Aīn-i-akbarī, Blochmann, 421, 533.

CLXXIV. Sarv-qad and Sarv-i-sahī.

Straight as a cypress; Pers. sarv, a cypress, and qad, form, or sahī, erect.

Sarv-i-sahī, to use Gul-badan's word, was a singer and reciter. She belonged to the households both of Bābar and Humāyūn, and was subsequently married, with full nisbat, to Mu'nim Khān-i-khānān.

She acted as go-between of Mu'nim and Khān-i-zamān ('Alī Qulī Uzbeg-i-shaibānī) during the rebellion of the latter—probably in the tenth year of Akbar, and Bāyazīd calls her a reliable woman and the ḥaram of the Khān-i-khānān. She sang on the way to Lamghān by moonlight in 958H. (1551); she was with Mu'nim at the time of his death in Gaur (Ṣafar, 983H., 1575), and in Rajab of the same year accom­panied Gul-badan to Makka.

Gul-badan, 82a (inserted in the translation after 73b).

Bāyazīd, I.O. MS., 122b, 147b.

Akbar-nāma, Bib. Ind. ed., III. 145.

CLXXV. Shād Begam Bāyqrā. (No. 28.)

Daughter of Ḥaidar Bāyqrā and Bega Mīrān-shāhī ; wife of 'Adil Sulān.

Gul-badan, 25a.

Mems., 180.

CLXXV (a). Shād Bībī.

Wife of Humāyūn; lost at Chausa.

Gul-badan, 33b.

CLXXVI. Shāham āghā.

(?) My queen; from Pers. shāh, king, ruler.

Of the ḥaram of Humāyūn. She went with Gul-badan Begam to Makka in 983H..

Aīn-i-akbarī, Blochmann, 441.

CLXXVII. Shāh Begam Badakhshī.

The princess of royal blood.

She was one of six daughters of Shāh Sulān Muḥammad, King of Badakhshān, the last of a long line of hereditary rulers of his country who claimed descent from Alexander of Macedon. Her mother was a sister of Sulān Sanjar Barlās.

She was given in marriage to Yūnas Khān Cha-ghatāī and was the mother of Maḥmūd and Aḥmad Khāns and of Sulān-nigār and Daulat Khānams. She was widowed in 892H. (1487), and survived Yūnas more than twenty years.

She dwelt in Mughalistān with her elder son, Maḥmūd, the then Khāqān of the Mughals, from the time of Yūnas' death until about 911H. (1505-6). Then ‘base advisers provoked a quarrel between the mother and son—a son so obedient that he had never even mounted for a ride without her permission… They [the base advisers] decided to send Shāh Begam to Shāhī Beg Khān to solicit a country for herself, because she found living in Mughalistān distasteful… Now, as the Begam was a very sensible woman, she went under this pretext, and thus left her son before those base advisers could bring about an open rupture, which would have caused endless scandal and reproach to herself. The rumour was that she had gone to entreat Shāhī Beg Khān while she was really enjoying in Samarqand the company of her children.’ (Tār. Rash, E. & R., 180.)

Shāhī Beg did not permit her to remain in Samar-qand but banished her to Khurāsān. From Khurāsān she went with other connections and relations to Bābar in Kābul. They arrived early in 911H. (June, 1505), during the ceremonial mourning for Bābar's mother, Shāh Begam's stepdaughter. With Shāh Begam was Ḥaidar Mīrzā's father and also Bābar's aunt, Mihr-nigār. Ḥaidar says that Bābar gave the party a warm welcome and showed them all possible honour; and that they spent some time in Kābul in the greatest ease and comfort.

Bābar's kindness fell on ungrateful ground, since in the following year, 912H. (1506-7), Shāh Begam fomented a rebellion against him in favour of her grandson, Mīrzā Khān. Ḥaidar says that during Bābar's absence in Harāt her motherly love (it was grandmotherly) began to burn in her heart, and per­suaded her that Bābar was dead, and that room was thus made for Mīrzā Khān. The story of Bābar's magnanimity to her when he had put down the rising she had stirred, is well known and is detailed in the histories.

In 913H. (1507-8) she laid claim to Badakhshān, saying that it had been her family's hereditary king­dom for 3,000 years; that though she, a woman, could not attain to sovereignty, her grandson would not be rejected. Bābar assented to her scheme, and she set off for Badakhshān, together with Mihr-nigār Khānam and Mīrzā Khān.

The latter went on in advance to Qila'-afar. The ladies and their escort were at once attacked and plundered by robber bands in the employ of the ruler of Kāshghar, Abā-bakr Dughlāt, and were by them conveyed to him in Kāshghar. They were placed in confinement, and ‘in the prison of that wicked mis­creant they departed from this perishable world’ (cir. 913H.).

Mems., 12, 13, 22, 32, 60, 74, 99, 104, 105, 106, 169, 216,
217, 231.
Tār. Rash., E. & R., s.n..

CLXXVIII. Shāh Begam Termiẕī. (No. 24.)

Daughter of Fakhr-jahān Begam and of Mīr Alā'u-l-mulk Termiẕī. She may be ‘Kīchak’ Begam, and if not, is her sister.

She was the mother of Dil-shād Begam. If she be Kīchak, she was the wife of Sharafu-d-dīn Ḥusain. (Cf. Kīchak.)

She was at the Mystic Feast.

Gul-badan, 24b.

CLXXIX. Shāh Khānam. (No. 17.)

Daughter of Badī'u-l-jamāl Begam.

Gul-badan, 24b.

CLXXX. Shahr-bānū Begam Mīrān-shāhī.

(?) Ar. shahr, the moon, the new moon.

Daughter of Sulān Abū-sa'īd Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī; wife of Sulān Ḥusain Mīrzā Bāyqrā, and married to him before his accession in 873H. (March, 1469).