Bābar gives an entertaining detail about her married life. Once at Chekmān her husband was engaged in a battle with her brother Maḥmūd. All his ladies except herself alighted from their litters and mounted on horseback, presumably for rapid flight if the day went against Ḥusain. Shahr-bānū, however, ‘relying on her brother,’ remained in her litter. This being reported to her husband, he divorced her and married her younger sister, Pāyanda-sulān.
Of her subsequent history nothing seems recorded. (Cf. Mīnglī-bī āghācha.)
Mems., 182.
CLXXXI. Shahr-bānū Begam Mīrān-shāhī. (No. 7.)
Third daughter of 'Umar Shaikh Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī and Umīd Andijānī; half-sister of Bābar and eight years his junior; born cir. 1491; full-sister of Nāṣir and Mihr-bānū; wife of Junaid Barlās (brother of Niāmu-d-dīn 'Alī Khalīfa); mother by him of Sanjar Mīrzā; widowed cir. 944H. (1537-38).
She seems to have gone to Sind with her nephew,
Yādgār-nāṣir Mīrzā, in 1540 and after the débacle in
Hindūstān, for when Yādgār-nāṣir had fled from Sind
to Kāmrān in Qandahār (a traitor cast aside by his
employer, Shāh Ḥusain Arghūn), Kāmrān sent ambassadors
to Shāh Ḥusain to request that the begam
and her son might be returned to his charge. [Shahr-
She was at once started on her journey, but was insufficiently provided with necessaries for traversing the difficult desert tract which stretches towards the western mountain barrier of Sind. Numbers of her party perished before reaching Shāl (Quetta); and many died in that town from ‘malignant fever.’ Amongst its victims was Shahr-bānū, at the age of about fifty-one years.
Gul-badan, 24b.
Mems, 10.
Akbar-nāma, s.n..
B. & H., I. 526 and II. 253. (Here occur errors of statement,
i.e., that Shahr-bānū was Yādgār-nāṣir's wife and Kām-
rān's sister.)
CLXXXII. Shāh Sulān Begam.
(?) Wife of Abū-sa'īd Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī; mother of 'Umar Shaikh Mīrzā.
The news of her death in Andijān reached Bābar in 907H. (1501).
Mems., 20, 99.
CLXXXIII. Shāh-zāda Begam and Sulānam Khānam Ṣafawī.
The daughter of kings.
Sister of Shāh ahmāsp of Persia. Her protection of the Emperor Humāyūn during his sojourn in Persia is named by many of the historians.
Gul-badan, 58a, 58b.
CLXXXIV. Shāh-zāda Khānam Mīrān-shāhī.
Daughter of Sulaimān Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī and Ḥaram Begam. She was betrothed to Humāyūn in 958H. (1551), but the affair went no further.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1898, art. Bāyazīd
bīyāt, H. Beveridge.
B. & H., II. 397.
Cf. appendix s.n. Ḥaram and Fāima.
CLXXXV. Sulānam Begam Bāyqrā.
For meaning of Sulānam, cf. app. s.n. Māham.
Daughter of Sulān Ḥusain Mīrzā Bāyqrā and Chūlī Begam Aẕāk; her father's eldest girl and her mother's only child. She married, first, her cousin Wais, son of her father's elder brother Bāyqrā, and, secondly, 'Abdu-l-bāqī Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī. By her first marriage she had a son, Muḥammad Sulān Mīrzā, and a daughter who married Isān-qulī Shaibānī, younger brother of Yīlī-bārs Sulān. Through her son Muḥammad she was ancestress of those numerous rebel Bāyqrās whom history knows as ‘the mīrzās.’
When the Uzbegs took Harāt in 1507 (913H.) she went to Khwārizm, and there her daughter was married. On April 12th, 1519 (Rabī' II. 12th, 925H.), Bābar records her arrival with her daughter in Kābul. He gave her the Garden of Retirement (Bāgh-i-khilwat) for her residence, and waited upon her with the ceremony due to an elder sister. He bowed and she bowed; he advanced, they embraced; and having established this form of greeting, they kept to it.
Sulānam started from Kābul for India in 1527 with a grandson (her sons had six sons), but she died at the Indus and her body was taken back to Kābul for burial.
There are curious discrepancies of the texts in the passage about Sulānam which occurs at Mems., 181.
The first point to note is contained in the words: ‘Her elder brother gave her in marriage to Sulān Wais Mīrzā, the son of Miāngī Bāyqrā Mīrzā.’ (Mems., 181.)
Barādar kilānash ba pisar miāngī Bāyqrā Mīrzā Sulān Wais Mīrzā dāda būd. (Waqi'āt-i-bābarī, Persian text, B.M. Or. 16,623, 123b.)
Āghā sī Bāyqrā Mīrzā nīnak ortānchī oghalī Sulān Wais Mīrzāgha chīqārīb aidī. (Tūzūk-i-bābarī or Bābarnāma , Turkī text, B.M. Add. 26,324, f. 52b, and Ilminsky, 209.)
‘Son frère ainé l'avait donnée en mariage à Sulān Wais Mīrzā, fils cadet de Bāyqrā Mīrzā.’ (Pavet de Courteille, I. 375.)
Both the English and French versions make the elder brother of Sulānam give her in marriage. But she was an only child, and her father was living to act for her. The French version, here as in so many other places, appears to have relied upon Mr. Erskine. The Turkī text appears to yield something more probable, i.e., ‘His elder brother, Bāyqrā Mīrza's middle son, Sulān Wais Mīrzā…’
Mr. Erskine has read miāngī as part of Bāyqrā's name. Comparison with the Turkī makes appear as the more probable reading: ‘the middle son’—pisar-imiāngī .
M. Pavet de Courteille's fils cadet lets slip the notion of mīyān. Redhouse gives for the ortānchī oghal of the Turkī text, ‘the middle son out of an odd number’ —e.g., the third out of five, the second of three, etc..
In the same passage the Memoirs have: ‘Sulānam Begam set out along with her grandson…’ Here the Persian words ba hamīn tārīkh (Turkī, ushbū tārīkh) are omitted, with loss of precision, for they fix the date of her journey by conveying the information that it occurred at the time of her son's appointment to the government of Kanauj, i.e., April, 1527.
Mems., 181, 190, 266.
Ḥabību-s-siyār, 327 et seq..
Also the places mentioned in the notice above.
CLXXXVI. Sulānam Begam Mīrān-shāhī. (No. 12.)
Daughter of Sulān Aḥmad Mīrzā.
A Sulānam of this parentage is mentioned by Bābar
(Mems., 22), by Ḥaidar (E. & R., s.n.), and by Gul-
(1). Sulānam, fourth daughter of Sulān Aḥmad Mīrzā. (Mems., 22.) She was the child of Qūtūq (Katak) Begam. She married her cousin 'Alī, son of Maḥmūd Mīrzā. 'Alī was murdered by Shaibānī (cf. s.n. Zuhra) in 906H. (July, 1500), and his widow was taken to wife by Shaibānī's son, Muḥammad Tīmūr. A third marriage is mentioned by Bābar, viz., to Mahdī Sulān. By this style the histories mention the Uzbeg chief who was associated with Ḥamza (Khamza) Sulān. But this Mahdī was put to death by Bābar in 1511, and Tīmūr was living in 1512 (918H.). Either Sulānam was divorced, perhaps to make marriage with some other kinswoman and later captive legal; or Mahdī Sulān may be the father of 'Adil Sulān; or he may be Maḥdī Muḥammad Khwāja.