Grand-daughter of Gul-badan Begam and a member of the Ḥaj of 983H..
Akbar-nāma, III. 145.
CXCV. Ūzūn-sulān Khānam Chaghatāī Mughal.
(?) Pers. auzūn, or ūzūn, ample, increase.
Daughter of Shīr 'Alī Khān Oghlan Chaghatāī;
sister of Wais Khān and Makhdūma Khanām; paternal
aunt of Yūnas Khān; wife of Amīr Sayyid 'Alī Dugh-
She was widowed in 862H. (1457-58), and then, in conjunction with her son, received Kāshghar and Yangī-ḥiṣār from her stepson, Sāniz.
Tār. Rash., E. & R., 64, 87, 88.
CXCVI. Yādgār-sulān Begam Mīrān-shāhī. (No. 8.)
Pers. yādgār, remembrance.
Daughter of 'Umar Shaikh Mīrān-shāhī and Āghā Sulān āghācha; half-sister of Bābar, and brought up by his grandmother, Isān-daulat. She was a posthumous child, and, if one may draw an inference from her example and others similar, is for this reason called Yādgār (Souvenir). Her father died Ramẓan 4th, 899H. (June 9th, 1494). When a child of not more than ten, and in 908H. (1503), she fell into the hands of 'Abdu-l-laīf Uzbeg, after the conquest of Andijān and Akhsī by Shaibānī, and in 916H. (1511) Bābar's successes at Khutlān and Ḥiṣār enabled her to return to him and her own people.
I do not find any marriage mentioned for her by her name.
She is in the list of the guests at the Mystic Feast, and her mother is named (as such) as present at Hindāl's wedding festivities.
Mems., 10.
Gul-badan, 24b, 26b.
CXCVII. Yūn (Tarsūn)-sulān Mughal.
Ilminsky, 15, writes Tarsūn.
Inferior wife of 'Umar Shaikh, and married at the end of his life.
Mems., 14.
CXCVIII. Zainab-sulān Begam Mīrān-shāhī.
(?) From Ar. zain, adorning.
Fifth daughter of Sulān Maḥmūd Mīrzā and Khān-
She was married at the instance of Qūt-līq-nigār, in
the year of the capture of Kābul, i.e., 910H. (1504-5),
perhaps at the time that Jahāngīr Mīrzā, Bābar's half-
Mems., 30.
CXCIX. Zainab - sulān Khānam Chaghatāī Mughal. (No. 19.)
Daughter of Sulān Maḥmūd Khān Chaghatāī Mughal; favourite wife of Sulān Sa'īd Khān Kāshgharī, her first cousin; aunt of Shāh Muḥammad Sulān whom Muḥammadī Barlās put to death; mother of Ibrāhīm who was born 930H. (1524), Sa'īd's third son and favourite child, of Muhṣin, and of Maḥmūd Yūsuf.
On her husband's death in 939H. (July, 1533), she was banished by her stepson Rashīd, and went with her children to Kābul where she met Ḥaidar Mīrzā and where she was under the protection of Kāmrān.
Gul-badan mentions her in the guest-list, and places her name as present at the Mystic Feast (1531), but this can hardly be right. She could easily have been at the marriage festivities in 1537.
Tār. Rash., E. & R., 146, 375, 383, 467.
Gul-badan, 11a, 24b.
CC. Zainab-sulān Begam Mīrān-shāhī.
Gul-badan describes her as the paternal aunt or great-aunt ('ama) of Humāyūn. Bābar had no such sister, and no Zainab is mentioned by Gul-badan as a daughter of his grandfather Abū-sa'īd. An Āq Begam, however, is spoken of by her, and Zainab may be her personal name. Zainab had a daughter Ulugh Begam.
Gul-badan, 24b.
CCI. Zainab-sulān Begam.
There is a difficulty in identifying the begam of this name, whom Bābar mentions (Mems., 387) as coming to India. It will be seen by comparing the sources and their French and English interpretations:
Mems., 387. ‘another, by name Zainab-sulān Begam, the
granddaughter of Bikeh Chichām.’
P. de C., II. 355. ‘et la petite-fille de Yenga-Tchetcham,
autrement dite Zeineb-sulān Begam.’
B. M. Or., 3714, Pers., p. 482. dīgar nabīra yanga chichām
ki Zainab-sulān Begam bāshad.
Bodleian, Elliot, 19, f. 180a. dīgar nabīra bega chichām ki
Zainab-sulān Begam.
Ilminsky, Turkī text, 447. yana, yanga chichām ki Zainab-
sulān Begam būlaghā'ī nabīra sī kīlīb.
It seems safer to take Zainab as the name of Bābar's relation (i.e., the yanga of his chicha) than as that of the granddaughter (nabīra).
It may be observed here that the best authorities quoted above, i.e., Ilminsky, behind whom is Kehr, and Or., 3714, have yanga where Mr. Erskine and Elliot, 19, have bega. This exchange may occur in the case of other begas of this appendix. Until a good Turkī text more complete than that in the B. M. is found, this must be left an open question.
If Zainab be taken as the name of the yanga, she may be identifiable with one of the other women already entered in the appendix, but for deciding this point more examples are necessary of Bābar's application of the word yanga.
Mems., 387.
CCII. Zobaida āghācha Jalāīr.
The marigold; Ar. zubaida.
Grand-daughter of Ḥusain Shaikh Tīmūr of the Shaibān Sulāns. According to the Ḥabibu-s-siyār, she was a Jalair.
She was an inferior wife of Sulān Ḥusain Mīrzā and the mother of 'Āyisha Begam. She predeceased her husband who died April, 1506.
CCIII. Zuhra Begī and Āghā Uzbeg.
Ar. zuhra, beauty, a yellow flower, the star Venus.
An inferior wife of Sulān Maḥmūd Mīrzā; mother of Makhdūma-sulān Begam and of Sulān 'Alī Mīrzā.
She was married during the lifetime of Maḥmūd's father, and therefore before Rajab 873H. (January, 1469), and was widowed Rabī II., 900H. (January, 1495). In 905H. (1499-1500) she entered into an intrigue with Shaibānī, a fellow-tribesman, of which the ultimate aim was dominance in Samarqand for her son 'Alī. A part of her scheme and offer was her own remarriage with Shaibānī. Bābar stigmatizes her action as ‘stupidity and folly,’ and says, further, ‘the wretched and weak woman, for the sake of getting herself a husband, gave the family and honour of her son to the winds. Nor did Shaibānī Khān mind her a bit, or value her even so much as his other handmaids, concubines, or women. Sulān 'Alī Mīrzā was confounded at the condition in which he now found himself, and deeply regretted the step he had taken. Several young cavaliers formed a plan for escaping with him, but he would not consent. As the hour of fate was at hand, he could not shun it. They put him to death in the meadow of Kulba. From his overanxiety to preserve this mortal and transitory life, he left a name of infamy behind him; and, from following the suggestions of a woman, struck himself out of the list of those who have earned for themselves a glorious name. It is impossible to write any more of the transactions of such a personage (? Zuhra), and impossible to listen any further to the recital of such base and dastardly proceedings.’