Jahángír's children. 1. Sulṭán Khusrau. 2. Sulṭán Parwíz. 3. Sulṭán Khurram (Sháhjahán). 4. Sulṭán Jahándár. 5. Sulṭán Shahryár. Two daughters are mentioned:—(a.) Sulṭán unnisâ Begum; (b.) Sulṭán Bahár Bánú Begum. There were ‘several children’ after Parwíz; but the Tuzuk (p. 8) does not give their names. They appear to have died soon after their birth.

Sulṭán Khusrau was born on the 24th Amurdád 995, (Tuzuk, Preface); but Kháfí Khán says 997. He was married to a daughter of A'zam Khán Kokah. His sons—1. Baland Akhtar, who died when young, Tuzuk, p. 73. 2. Dáwar Bakhsh, (also called Buláqí)* whose daughter, Hoshmand Bánú Begum, was married to Hoshang, son of Dányál. 3. Garshasp.

Khusrau died on the 18th Isfandiyármuz, 1031. He lies buried in the Khusrau Gardens in Allahabad. Dáwar Bakhsh was proclaimed Emperor by A´çaf Khán after the death of Jahángír; but at the order of Sháhjahán, he was killed, together with his brother Garshasp, by A´çaf Khán.

Sulṭán Parwíz, born 19th A´bán, 997. He was married to a daughter of Mírzá Rustam i Çafawí (No. 9) and had a son who died when young (Tuz. p. 282). A daughter of Parwíz was married to Dárá Shikoh. Parwíz died of delirium tremens in 1036.

Sulṭán Khurram [Sháhjahán] was born at Láhor on the 30th Rabí' I, 1000 A. H. Regarding his family, vide Proceedings A. S. of Bengal, for August 1869, p. 219. He was Akbar's favorite.

Sulṭán Jahándár had no children. He and Sulṭán Shahryár were born about the same time, a few months before Akbar's death (Tuz. Preface, p. 17). Shahryár was married, in the 16th year of Jahángír, to Mihrunnisá, the daughter of Núr Jahán by Sher Afkan, and had a daughter by her, Arzání Begum (Tuzuk, p. 370). The Iqbál­námah (p. 306) calls her <Arabic>. From his want of abilities, he got the nickname Náshudaní (fit for nothing). Khusrau, Parwíz, and Jahándár died before their father.

Shahryár, at the instigation of Núr Jahán, proclaimed himself Emperor at Láhor a few days after the death of Jahángír. He was killed either at the order of Dáwar Bakhsh or of A´çaf Khán; vide Proceedings A. S. Bengal for August 1869, p. 218.

5. Mi´rza´ Sulaima´n, son of Khán Mírzá, son of Sulṭán Mahmúd, son of Abú Sa'íd.

6. Mi´rza´ Ibra´him, son of Mírzá Sulaimán (No. 5.)

Mírzá Sulaimán was born in 920, and died at Láhor in 997. He is generally called Wálí i Badakhshán. As grandson of Abú Sa'íd Mírzá, he is the sixth descen­dant from Tímúr. Abú Sa'íd killed Sulṭán Muhammad of Badakhshán, the last of a series of kings who traced their descent to Alexander the Great, and took possession of Badakhshán, which after his death fell to his son, Sultán Mahmúd, who had three sons, Báyasanghar Mírzá, 'Alí Mírzá,* Khán Mírzá. When Mahmúd died, Amír Khusrau Khán, one of his nobles, blinded Báyasanghar, killed the second prince, and ruled as usurper. He submitted to Bábar in 910. When Bábar took Qandahár, in 912, from Sháh Beg Arghún, he sent Khán Mírzá as governor to Badakhshán. Mírzá Sulaimán is the son of this Khán Mírzá.*

After the death of Khán Mírzá, Badakhshán was governed for Bábar by Prince Humáyún, Sultán Uwais (Mírzá Sulaimán's father-in-law), Prince Hindál, and lastly, by Mírzá Sulaimán, who held Badakhshán till 17 Jumáda II, 948, when he had to sur­render himself and his son, Mírzá Ibráhím, to Prince Kámrán. They were released by Humáyún in 952, and took again possession of Badakhshán. When Humáyún had taken Kábul, he made war upon and defeated Mírzá Sulaimán who once in possession of his country, had refused to submit; but when the return of Kámrán from Sind obliged Humáyún to go to Kábul, he reinstated the Mírzá, who held Badakhshán till 983. Bent on making conquests, he invaded in 967 Balkh, but had to return. His son, Mírzá Ibráhím, was killed in battle.*

In the eighth year when Mírzá Muhammad Hakím's (Akbar's brother) mother had been killed by Sháh Abul Ma'álí, Mírzá S. went to Kábul, and had Abul Ma'álí hanged; he then married his own daughter to M. M. Hakím, and appointed Umed 'Alí, a Badakhshán noble, M. M. Hakím's Vakíl (970). But M. M. Hakím did not go on well with Mírzá Sulaimán, who returned next year to Kábul with hostile inten­tions; but M. M. Hakím fled and asked Akbar for assistance, so that Mírzá S., though he had taken Jalálábád, had to return to Badakhshán. He returned to Kábul in 973, when Akbar's troops had left that country, but retreated on being promised tribute.

Mírzá Sulaimán's wife was Khurram Begum, of the Qibchák tribe. She was clever and had her husband so much in her power, that he did nothing without her advice. Her enemy was Muhtarim Khánum, the widow of Prince Kámrán. M. Sulaimán wanted to marry her; but Khurram Begum got her married, against her will, to Mírzá Ibráhím, by whom she had a son, Mírzá Sháhrukh (No. 7). When Mírzá Ibráhím fell in the war with Balkh, Khurram Begum wanted to send the Khánum to her father, Sháh Muhammad of Káshgar; but she refused to go. As soon as Sháhrukh had grown up, his mother and some Badakhshí nobles excited him to rebel against his grandfather M. Sulaimán. This he did, alternately rebelling and again making peace. Khurram Begum then died. Sháhrukh took away those parts of Badakhshán which his father had held, and found so many adherents, that M. Sulaimán, pretending to go on a pilgrimage to Makkah, left Badakhshán for Kábul, and crossing the Níláb went to India (983). Khán Jahán, governor of the Panjáb, received orders to invade Badakh­shán, but was suddenly ordered to go to Bengal, as Mun'ím Khán had died and Mírzá Sulaimán did not care for the governorship of Bengal, which Akbar had given him.

M. Sulaimán then went to Ismá'íl II. of Persia. When the death of that monarch deprived him of the assistance which he had just received, he went to Muzaffar Husain Mírzá (No. 8) at Qandahár, and then to M. M. Hakím at Kábul. Not succeeding in raising disturbances in Kábul, he made for the frontier of Badakhshán, and luckily finding some adherents, he managed to get from his grandson the territory between Táiqán and the Hindú Kush. Soon after Muhtarim Khánum died. Being again pressed by Sháhrukh, M. Sulaimán applied for help to 'Abdullah Khán Uzbak, king of Túrán, who had long wished to annex Badakhshán. He invaded and took the country in 992; Sháhrukh fled to Hindústán, and M. Sulaimán to Kábul. As he could not recover Badakhshán, and rendered destitute by the death of M. M. Hakím, he followed the example of his grandson, and repaired to the court of Akbar who made him a Commander of six thousand.